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Technique breakdowns, teaching progressions, and film-room fixes for youth coaches — written by position specialists on the Your Last Scout staff.
Youth Football Coaching: Teaching Kids to Tackle Without Leading with the Head
Here in Fresno, August practice means 98 degrees by 4 p.m. and kids who have been running around all summer and think they already know how to tackle because…
Coach ReyesYouth Head Coach
Youth Football Coaching: Why Your Snap Count Is Losing You Yards Before the Ball Moves
Every Saturday I watch youth offenses line up, get set, and then completely unravel before the center even touches the ball. A guard flinches early. The…
Coach KimYouth Offensive Coordinator
Youth Football Coaching: Teach Pursuit Angles Before You Teach Anything Else
Every fall, I watch the same touchdown scored about a hundred different ways. The ball breaks the line of scrimmage. Every kid on defense turns and runs. The…
Coach BarnesYouth Defensive Coordinator
Youth Football Coaching: Teaching the Snap Before Anything Else
Every fall I watch youth football drives end the same way. Not on a fourth-down stop. Not on a good blitz. The drive dies on play one when the snap rolls two…
Coach KimYouth Offensive Coordinator
How to Tackle Safely: A Youth Football Tackling Progression
Teaching kids how to tackle is the most important job I have as a youth coach — and the one with the least room for shortcuts. Safe tackling isn't softer…
Coach ReyesYouth Head Coach
Youth Football Coaching: Teaching the Reach Block the Right Way
There's a play in almost every youth team's playbook — outside zone, toss sweep, a simple sweep to the boundary — that lives or dies on one block most coaches…
Coach ReyesYouth Head CoachYouth Football Coaching: Why 'Get Low' Breaks Linemen (And What to Say Instead)
Walk any youth football sideline on a Saturday morning and you'll hear it on nearly every snap: "Get low! Stay low! You gotta get lower!"
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