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.

The Analytics-Driven Call Sheet

Hart High School (CA) defensive coordinator David Padilla is one of the country’s most frequent users of Hudl’s What’s Next report. Here’s how he says he uses data to organize his game-day call sheet. Our game sheet for defensive calls is completely Hudl-driven. Since some … View this post

Best Ways to Run Power Read Option

This post was syndicated with permission from the Glazier Clinics Free Coaching Resources at Building Blocks: Pro Gun Spread—Power Read Option. The power read option is a formidable element in the Pro-Gun Spread. Catch up on the rest of this offensive formation series … View this post

Inside Linebacker Run Keys

This post was syndicated with permission from the Glazier Clinics Free Coaching Resources at Building Blocks of the 4-2-5 G Defense. As today's game continues to shift to a more pass-driven approach, the traditional 3-4 and 4-3 sets are utilized less and less. More Defensive … View this post

MIC & SAM Linebacker Reads in 3-4/4-2 Defenses

This post was syndicated with permission from the Glazier Clinics Free Coaching Resources at MIC & SAM Linebacker Reads in 3-4/4-2 Defenses Coach Nate Moore from Massillon Washington HS, (OH) outlines two Outside Linebacker reads for the 3-4/4-2 Fusion defense! Linebacker … View this post