As much as you love to hear yourself talk, telling coaches not to pass heavy is nonsense. It’s far more difficult for youth defenses to defend pass as opposed to run. Youth defensive coaches spend all practice long working on run and just kinda mention pass coverage. Also, it doesn’t take 7 seconds for a route to develop. That’s absurd.

4-3 is a very versatile defense but not needed in youth football when 90 percent of plays are runs. You need 8 in the box. So that strong safety is probably more of run stopper in this defense. Keep the d-line out of the lbs way and let them run to the ball. Also, never allow the dline to have 2 gap responsibility. Play 3 deep zone so the corners won’t have to turn their back to the ball. 3 funda

impressive and interesting...and only six on offense the whole video. Where is number 7? blocking?

At the youth level we have to play kids a certain amount of plays. Why not just send the number in with a sub?

Straight T, easy , balanced, repeated patterns

What software are you using?

Do you have a downloadable playbook or anything like that? First year 6v6 coach

I coach 10U and we can be on the field with them so the personnel # and hole # system I learned in middle school in 95 works great.

Brings back the memories. Very helpfull video. Thanks

Great advice

I coach 7v7 5th grade rookie tackle. I want to base my offense around pro formation. Also run a lot out of shotgun. Mostly run based. Any tips or plays i may be missing? Thanks

Great vid. Do think thing pulling a Guard at 8 years old is too much for them to mentally process?

I needed this video. Thankfully I had assistant coaches that were the ones to calm me down. One thing I will do is crash out 🤣🤣🤣🤣

23 mins of yap

Great stuff.

Agree 1000 percent.

We won our league last year too💪🏽and I was a first year “fill in coach”

More visual representation please

Okay so I understand the concept. Besides that you want be running any blitzes or other coverages?

I have used this def last 3 years. Pinch and loop with blitz all.they need to know

Whats the name of the platform you are using to drawing the stuff

Joel, enjoyed your 7 on 7 video. In the video you mentioned drills for man coverage. Could you recommend a channel or a drill video to learn more about this defense

That depends on skill set and experience of players

Awesome video Coach. In my 8u league, every team runs the ball and the OL has tight splits. Will a 3-4 scheme work? I fear that we won’t be able to stop the run with a 3 man front. Would love your insight coach.

What does the center do???

I feel like zone is easier with a group of kids than msm

how do i join 7 on 7 i always wanted to

What level? For youth this would be very hard to run, those are the hardest passes to make

If you have a center that can run routes, what route would you have him run?

Our league we can't run inside of the tackle box

I’m really interested in your knowledge of 7v7? I coach youth tackle football but have been wanting to get into 7v7. Thanks for the videos you have. Diving into all the 7v7 stuff lol

What software are you using ?

Young kids will easily get lost in a mesh concept. Nobody is coming to help him either because it’s man. Man only works well if you have the more dominant players IMO.

Can you show actual video of your players running these plays?

I love I formation for youth

Something as simple as D line slants would eat that up

Great stuff!

Which program are you using?

Do you have a offensive and defensive playbook and practice plan you can share?

Just to answer a few questions. One of the reasons we have it on opposite end of the field is that we also use this drill as partly conditioning. There’s only a few guys standing around watching, and they’re usually getting a breath, because as soon as we sprint over to the other side of the field after the four downs they’re jumping in and the other guys are jumping out. It’s really fast pace. The guys aren’t standing around long. We have other drills for running backside plays like traps and such. This one isn’t made for that though. Playbook coming out soon.

Awesome stuff coach! The only thing I would suggest is to line the offense up from the middle cones and not the sideline. Like spot the ball next to cones. More game like and better visual for us here also. So left side of offense just left of the cones. Right side just right of the cones. Sidelines are still the sidelines.

What program are you drawing plays on?

A good coach will pick and rub your players in man. I agree with you though on all your points

Are you giving out full pads 1st week?

We've recently had issues snapping the ball and are considering transitioning to shotgun. Is the wishbone difficult to run out of the shotgun?

Hello Coach can you show me more of the Sidesaddle T Scheme?

I didn’t mention in the video we usually run this out of some type of a QB keep whether it be a QB blast to the outside or a QB follow up the middle or even a trap play where you have an extra blocker going through the trap hole and the QB keeps the ball and follows through. But instead of the QB, it’s a running back. It adds another blocker in the backfield because now, instead of having a QB hand the ball off he’s actually running the ball and it’s not the QB it’s an official running back.

Always have a few counter plays with a guy that can take it to the house…I use to run a reverse with the wing that was on my power side. Only ram it maybe 3 or 4 times a game and usually it was a touchdown or we went the distance… That keeps the defense from stacking to the power side.

Great video. Currently been coaching 5v5 flag and will be transiting into 7v7 this summer. Any resources you recommend?

I would design a simple 4 plan structure for offense customized to the opponent. I would have my players drill those 4 simple plays all week until they could do it in their sleep. Game day they can go off their wristband for each play/quarter. No need to come up with new plays during the game. If every player executes the drilled plays they'll win. Each game has 4 new.plays learned and executed and can be rotated around for each drive. Just use acronym on wristband. Simplify it.