Coach T Tackles Football- Coaching Youth Football

COACH T DVD Series - How to Coach Youth Football and find success on the field!

The Coach T Tackles Football DVD Series and Camps offers a wide range of methods to improve upon individual skills and coaching techniques. Tips include running an offense, offensive drills, defense, defensive drills, and position by position breakdowns. Included on this 10-hour DVD series are interviews from Sports Physicians, referees, parents, and fellow coaches. Purchasing a single DVD or the entire 10-set DVD Series will garantee a more successful and winning season, as well as putting fun back into the game for your youth football players.

Featuring over 10 hours of superb youth football video.

Coach T Tackles Football is more than a thorough guide to good football coaching techniques. Hosted by the charismatic Coach T, the DVD series (also available on VHS) explores numerous drills, strategies, up-to-date techniques and approaches, safety tips, sports medicine and provides in-depth positional analysis. The material is all presented in an easy-to-reference, engaging format.

Overview: (1 hour, 15 minutes) Provides insights, philosophies and advice to the new coach while exploring new techniques and considerations for the seasoned vet. The medical chapter provides an overview of the do’s and don’ts when dealing with youth injuries. When to heat and when to ice, the ABCs of injuries, the RICE method of instant care are just some of the topics discussed in this chapter. Finally, Coach T works with players on proper stretching for football.

Fundamentals: (1 hour, 5 minutes) Blocking, tackling, and running are highlighted in these coaching sessions. Coach T talks about the necessity to maintain a good leveraged and introduces “Zs in the knees". Highlights include the “4 Cone Drill” and the “Plank Drill”.

Running Backs: (50 minutes) Coach T emphasizes ball handling as he implements numerous drills emphasizing proper ball maintenance in various change-of-direction situations. In addition to providing tips to minimize turnovers, Coach T explores the running backs’ role in the passing game as well as lead blocking in the running attack.

Quarterbacks: (1 hour) Along with Southwest State standout Steve Yakesh, Coach T breaks down the basics from the snap to the pivot to the drop back. If you never heard of the “Goal Post Position”, this segment is a must. Coach T analyzes the 3 and 5 step drop, the rollout and throwing motion, step-by-step.

Wide Receivers: (45 minutes) Former pro Willis Jacox provides unique insight into the receiver position. In addition to demonstrating the correct way to catch and run a variety of routes, Jacox teaches “stemming” and how a wide receiver “attacks the technique.”

Offensive Line: (1hour 50 minutes) The longest and most extensive segment in the series. In this chapter, Coach T breaks down each movement an offensive lineman needs to take in run and pass blocking. His “Bird Dog and Pulls” session is guaranteed to improve your sweeps and reverses. Blocks highlighted in this chapter include Drive, Hook, Scoop, Fold, and Combination. Coaching pass blocking at the youth level is also emphasized.

Linebackers: (1hour) It’s never too early to teach linebackers how to scrape, pursue and read their keys. Coach T simplifies things so that it’s easy to teach youth player’s linebacker skills. Besides providing good tackling drills, Coach T emphasizes reading, reacting and attacking. What does it take to be a good linebacker at the youth level? Coach T knows… Do you?

Defensive Line: (1 hour 10 minutes) How many moves should a D-lineman know at the youth level? What do you do if a move fails? Watch as Coach T teaches the best moves for youth players and then leads his players through 2-on-1 and 1-on-1 challenge drills. Splitting a double team caps-off this in-depth segment.

Defensive Backs: (48 minutes) Coach T hates toast… especially in his defensive backfield. Coach T enlists former Boise State All-America DB, Ricky Hill, to teach strategies to prevent “the burn.” Hill provides drills and instruction on proper footwork and body positioning against both the run and pass.

Special Teams and the Video Playbook: (1 hour) What makes special teams so special? Usually not much when it comes to youth football. Coach T provides strategies for good coverage and return games in both kick and punt situations. He also demonstrates how to punt and the keys to kicking an extra point. Also included in this segment are sample youth football plays, slowed down and analyzed for your teaching pleasure. Coach T has a few trick plays up his sleeve as well.