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Daniel Lyons

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  1. Most youth teams that run a 5-3, run it as a 5-3 stack so the LB's don't get blocked as often. So you have an odd front T N T with the LB's behind them. Outside the DT's you have the DE's. The DE's are in a 2 pt. with outside leg back (to prevent hooking) and do nothing but contain the sweep (a clever coach will also use them to pick up backs in the flat). It's the DE's job to stop the sweep and bootleg with the outside LB and Corner and finally the safety helping out (along with the rest of the team in pursuit). The 2 corners have outside receiver and contain as well. Then the teams mostly have a deep safety (a wasted position in youth football in my opinion). This guy's job is usually to find the deepest receiver and stay behind him and take good angles to prevent touchdowns on runs. Why do I say this is a wasted position? Because in order for this guy to be effective he has to be one of the fastest players on the field. Your fastest player is likely your best athlete or one of them. Using your best athlete simply to save touchdowns is a waste. If it's not one of your best players he likely isn't going to be able to run down and tackle the other team's best player in the open field. Each of your 6 inside players is responsible for one or two gaps. You can choose which gaps for each player depending on your scheme. Most youth coaches won't do this and just have the kids read the block or the backfield and run to the football. This is also a mistake in my opinion. All of the LB's will have a primary gap or 2, but they should also be scraping to the football so they should be helping out on sweeps as well. This takes a lot of drilling and time to learn for kids. With so many teams running spreads now, you have to have a system and scheme in place for when teams go 4 or 5 wides. Be sure you account for the QB if he is a runner. The double tight full house backfield teams will do just that try to run it down your throat and sweep when you cheat. Against these teams make sure you don't leave your corners real wide covering no one and not being useful in the run game, you will get out manned on the off tackle play inside and outside the DE.
  2. I love coaching football, I have no teacher degree so I volunteer to coach youth football and I've had great success at it over the years. I want to start making money off my passion since all youth football coaching is basically voluntary and I need money. My question is what, if anything, would you buy from a website to help you in winning football games or developing young football players? I currently sell a book (hardly any sales though well received by those who bought it - no my family didn't buy it), my offensive spread playbook (great seller) and my defensive playbook (getting better). Would you buy youth sized dummies or training equipment? Workout DVD's for kids? Instructional DVD's? Other? Or would you only purchase such things from big retailers? I did a USA football clinic at Halas Hall and was well received by the coaches there afterward. I basically rushed through their format after I realized that the coaches didn't want general babel, but specific answers to specific questions. Like how to stop certain offenses, defensive and offensive schemes, blocking schemes, pass blocking schemes, etc. What would move you to sign up for a coaching clinic or a clinic for your son? What is the most you would pay for either? Say a one day coaching clinic and a week long kid clinic of a couple hours a day. Thanks for any info you have or any ideas you have that I can use. If any one has a coaching question for me, I would be happy to answer it.
  3. I think from the tone of your post you know that answer is that it is too many, execution beats scheme every time. 8 - 11 is a huge and inappropriate age spread. I can't imagine many 8 year old's being able to compete with 11 year old's. A great way for them to get hurt IMO. I think 7-8 you have 2 closely related formations with 2 pass plays growing to maybe 4 as the season progresses and 4 run plays growing to maybe 8 as season progresses. You don't really need more than 6 - 8 run plays at any level, you vary them with formations and motion as you advance in age. 9-10 you can do 2 formations growing to 3 formations and you can add a simple passing tree. You can also start traps and pulls at this age. 11-12 you can do 3 formations (I never do more than 3 at the youth level, I actually do 2 with simple word adjustments for positions like invert, tight or wide) and you can add more complex plays like screens and shovel passes and deeper routes. I am coaching an 11 and 12 year old team this year we already have 5 TD passes in 2 games.
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