Football Maniacs

Basics to football hand offs

Learning the basics in a handoff is essential to a strong offense. We will explain this in a common scenario between a quarterback and a running back. The running back starts the hand off running towards the quarterback with his arms open creating a pocket for the quarterback to slide the football right into the running back’s chest. When the quarterback slides the ball into the arms, or the pocket as it is called, the running back closes his arms around the ball to protect it. As the running back leaves from the handoff he needs to stay low to react quickly and again to protect the ball.

Points on tackling safely and effectively

It has been stated many times that a defensive teams win games, and the most fundamental part of a defensive team is performing a great tackle. If you, or your players don’t take tackling seriously you will not stop the offense and could also cause injuries. Some points to remember when tackling: [...]

Your football coaching skills can be improved in many of ways. Autobiographies of renowned players and managers, dedicated football coaching books, football magazines, and watching football on TV can be beneficial, but for a coach, they are not always convenient methods to explain techniques or tactics when the whole team is trying to watch the screen, or read a book.

Online training courses are designed to provide you with the football techniques and coaching skills you need in order to help your players to progress. Utilising video clips, and other tried and tested methods, you can follow the training programmes that other teams use, and gain more knowledge about soccer coaching. If you are serious about becoming a football coach, perhaps you will decide to embark on a nationally recognised football coaching qualification. [...]

The Super Bowl is what many youth football players dream about. It starts at the flag football level and continues throughout high school as players dream of winning a championship.

One huge hurdle that goes into becoming football champions is managing the skill level of each player.

The truth is that everyone is not going to be good at every single thing; so it is key for every player to learn there strengths and weaknesses and then work on both. They should work at cultivating their strengths and enhancing their weaknesses.

During practice, have all of your potential quarterbacks do these drills. Even the players that are not quarterbacks should do these drills because it will help all the players of the team and in the quarterbacks absence someone should be able to step up and take over the role. [...]