Football Toolbox

Football is the ultimate team game. No sport requires so many individuals to work together in order for the team to be successful.  No sport demands more of its players physically and mentally. No sport requires more of its coaches. Football coaches have more skills, concepts and philosophies to teach than other sports.  Football coaches make more decisions during a game that influence winning and losing. In short football coaches simply have more responsibilities than other coaches.

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Championship winning coaches are great teachers and great students. The Football Toolbox is a site that we have designed to help football coaches improve their program. We are not going to tell you how to coach. We are going to provide you with as many tools as possible for you to choose from. 

You will find a vast resource of offensive and defensive schemes, ideas about special teams, strength and conditioning plans, motivational ideas, team building  activities and anything else we think might help you with the very difficult job of coaching a football team.

We will provide you with ideas from a wide variety of successful coaches.  Study, evaluate and decide what you can use and what you cannot.  But you will build your own program.  You will build your own culture.  You will fail or succeed based on the decisions that you make.

A Flawed Reality: When it’s Time to Reflect

Two years after landing the head coaching position he so badly desired, Coach Jones (not his real name) was quietly fired. The administrative staff realized they’d made a mistake hiring Jones. They weren’t quite sure why he didn’t work out. They did their homework. Well, … View this post

PAT and FG Protection

By Keith Grabowski What is the attention to detail that your staff and team believe and buy-in to?   Does it show you care?  Allen Rudolph, offensive line coach at Ohio University believes you can learn a lot about a team by the way your PAT/FG team operates.  It speaks … View this post

Penalty Beaters

By Keith Grabowski Are you teaching your players penalty beaters? Top special team coordinators have been teaching the technique and drills to avoid the 15 yarders that back your offense up and cost you valuable field position.  More on those later, first let's talk about … View this post