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.

Short and Intermediate Passing Game

Today's presenter is Kyle Ralph, Head Coach at New Palestine High School (IN). The purpose of this post is not to say that you should do the drills exactly as they do, but that they hopefully will give you some ideas for drills to use to teach and rehearse your coaching points … View this post

Defending the Triple Option with the M43 Defense System

In the video below, Greg Vandagriff, Head Coach at Prince Avenue Christian High School (GA), goes through the M43 defense system and defending triple option play that he uses in their program. The purpose of this post is not to say that you should do the drills exactly as they … View this post

Wham Toss in the Jet-Wing System

In the video below, Chad Hetlet, Head Coach at Glenbard West High School (IL), goes through some of the inside run game off-tackle play that he uses in their program. The purpose of this post is not to say that you should do the drills exactly as they do, but that they … View this post

Tackling Drills Without Pads

In the video below, Aaron Brady, Head Coach at St. Mary's Ryken High School (MD), goes through some of the tackling drills that he uses in their program. The purpose of this post is not to say that you should do the drills exactly as they do, but that they hopefully will give … View this post