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FREE “Two Plays in One” Youth Football Playbook

I have discussed how I have combined the Sweep and Bootleg together to form a “Two in One” Combination Play that allows my team to take advantage of how the defense is reacting to my motioning slot man.  So, I am pleased to release my Sweep/Bootleg (“Sweep-B”), Sweep/Option and Sweep/Isolation audible-based combination plays in a [...]
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The “Opposite” Youth Football Playbook

As our youth team first began to find success when running our “Opposite“ sweep concept, we decided to develop a small group of very basic plays that could be run easily to each side of our double slot, one back formation. To quickly review our “Opposite” concept, we would let the QB change the original [...]
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Drilling Audibles – How to Get More Repetitions

Audibles can be used in many different ways, but all methods allow the offense to change the original offensive play to another play that has a better chance of success.  Sometimes audibles are necessary because the opponent’s defensive coordinator has “guessed right” and has aligned his defense in advance to stop your play or maybe [...]
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“Two Plays in One”- The Sweep / Bootleg Combo Play

In order to continue to best utilize our newly found competence in using audibles as a big part of our youth football plays we needed to find a way to take advantage of how the defense was reacting to our halfback motion from his slot alignment into the backfield. We wanted to be able [...]
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The First Youth Football Audible Play, Opposite!

If you had a chance to read “Coaching Youth Football – Audibles”, you would have read how I learned that audibles could (and SHOULD!) be used in youth league football. Little Tim, our young quarterback taught our entire staff some very important offensive football lessons. To review briefly, Tim originally taught us that he and his [...]
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Audibles in Youth Football? Are You Crazy?

Audibles in Youth Football? Are you crazy?” I have heard these two questions while coaching youth football for years, and have even heard high school coaches who disdain the concept of using audibles at their level. In fact, my college team (back in the day) did not have [...]
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