First Youth Tackle Football Coaching Book Ever!

You guys asked for it! We delivered!

After the success of the flag football coaching book, you guys asked for a tackle football coaching book. Tackle football is nothing like flag football, and it was going to take an enormous amount of effort to put all of our thoughts on paper and finally put together a tackle coaching book!

But we finally did it! It took about 4 years to finish!

It turned into a 300+ page Encyclopedia of Tackle Football Coaching that is insanely good!

:There is no other book like it! There are no books on the market that focus on coaching youth tackle football players age 10 to 14. This is the only one!

Personally, I have been coaching tackle football for 15 years and have learned many lessons along the way. If you want to get started, don't make the same mistakes that I have. Shortcut your way to a winning season.

The coaching staff at Football Times began this website as a coaches forum and resource in the late 1990s and eventually turned into online chat groups, pages, forums, Whatsapp groups, and coaching apps. We have collectively been coaching and learning from other coaches and offenses since the early 1990s. We have put as much of that information as possible into a book that is 300 pages!

Everything you need to start coaching tackle football at the youth level! (and beyond)

• 8 Magical Plays Every Offense Must Have (Essential)
• Conditioning & Stretching Based on Science
• Pre Season Secrets
• Scrimmaging the Right Way Without Injuries
• What to do if you have an Absolute Stud Athlete
• Drills That Turn Your Athletes Into Stars Based on Science
• Increase Speed Based on the Teachings Of Michigan's Speed Coach
• Skill & Position Drills That Aren't Counterproductive
• Tackling & Blocking Secrets That Make Offense and Defense Run Like a Well Oiled Machine
• Overall Strategy To Shut Out Every Opponent
• Magic Trifecta Guaranteed To Score Touchdowns
• Sister Plays That Set Each Other Up
• The Offensive Scheme That Terrifies Opposing Defensive Coordinators
• The Smothering Defense That Didn't Allow a Single Positive Yard All Year
• Offensive & Defensive Playbooks That Win Championships
• Blank Offensive Plays, Guides, Cheatsheets, Scripts, Substitution Calls
• When to use Power Plays, Sweeps, Reverse, Fakes, & Misdirection
• FREE $5000 Masterclass and Coaches Community on an App

This is the Encyclopedia of coaching tackle football at the youth level. It's not easy to teach kids how to tackle correctly, how to block, how to be tackled, how to hit, catch, receive a handoff, hold a ball, and throw correctly. This book gives you all of that and more!

Imagine you are a parent that signed up to coach but have no idea where to start? Or you have been coaching for a few years, but aren't sure if you are doing things right? Your offense and defense are very average and depend too much on "the big play". No consistency.

Maybe you are a high school coach just looking for an edge or a better defensive scheme? Or you are a high school coach that just wants a deeper understanding of how elite level coaches think about football and why they keep beating you!

This book is absolutely for you!

The staff at Football Times has over 40 years combined experience coaching football at all levels! We have been the online home for Football Coaching Forums since 1998 and have helped thousands of coaches across the world improve their offense, defense, clock management, and practice schedule.

When you buy this book, you also get online access to our Football Coaching Masterclass via an App and The Football Coaching Community app, where you can pick the brains of other football coaches.

The Coaching Masterclass and Community gives you access to:

• Football Coaches Community via app or web
• PDF Book & Audio (lots of great audio)
• Playbook with only the Plays to print for players
• Video breakdown of offense and defense from real games
• Tackling drills with proper technique
• Excel spreadsheets of substitutions and plays
• Access to over 200 PDF playbooks: high school, college, NFL

We continue to add more playbooks, videos, techniques, and other resources to the Masterclass!

Who This Book Is For?

This book is for anyone hoping to coach youth tackle football at the pee wee level (5^th through 8^th grade). Whether you have coached previously or not, this book is for you! Primarily this book is designed for coaches of 10-14 year olds. Many of these tactics and plays can be used through freshman, JV, and varsity high school football as well. You can easily adapt these techniques for use with older players.

This book is designed to teach you how to think about football as much as it is designed to teach you how to do the actual coaching. As you read the book you will learn how to coach football and why we teach it that way.

Learn to dominate tackle football even with lesser talent!

Who Am I

I am the owner and operator of FootballTimes.org. Football Times began in 1998 as an online forum for coaches to discuss football. At one point, we had the largest collection of football coaches in our forums discussing strategies, plays, rules, and everything football. Eventually, we moved to Facebook Groups and pages and eventually apps on your phone. Football Times was where coaches went to learn football, how to coach it, read articles on football, and download playbooks to use with instructions on how to use them.

It was an amazing place for thousands of football coaches from all over the world! They uploaded videos, articles, strategies, and had in depth discussions. Many amazing offensive and defensive strategies were born out of our forums.

I have a staff of football coaches, writers, editors, and developers. We’ve spent the last 40 years researching football, gathering playbooks, developing plays, explaining plays, reading every football book that’s ever been written, and playing football. We’ve spent a combined forty years as football coaches on the field with our teammates, and later on the sidelines coaching every level of play.

I have had access to some of the most amazing football coaches in the country! I have interviewed and spoken to coaches who have set records at the junior and high school levels.

Much of my coaching philosophy comes from Coach John T. Reed and Bob Ladouceur. Coach Bob had the longest active winning streak in high school football history that still stands today. They won 151 games in a row, breaking the previous win streak record of 72 wins. I highly recommend you purchase their books and study them.

Don’t get me wrong, high school football doesn’t translate into youth football. I am not suggesting that. High school football is not youth football. They are not the same. But the philosophies and coaching can be quite similar.

I am also a cardiologist and certified personal trainer. I currently coach the Southview Football Junior Cougars in Sylvania, Ohio. The Cougars are a tackle football team. I have coached flag football as well for many years and still do.

I began playing football at age 8 growing up in Sylvania, Ohio. Ohio is the birthplace of football and the cradle of many incredible coaches that have gone on to become world renowned coaches. Coaches like Nick Saban, Urban Meyer, Gary Pinkle, Brady Hoke, Brian Kelly, and hundreds of others. I grew up in Northwest Ohio where most of these coaches got their start.

My philosophy on offense most closely resembles that of Urban Meyers’ philosophy. Get the ball to your playmakers. Find every way to get the ball to the players that can make plays and are better than everyone else. Every year, we have one or two special playmakers.

I have taken the best offensive and defensive philosophies and have implemented and improved them in “The Lab” over the past 15 years. The lab is the football field with actual players, coaches, referees, and parents. You have to improve in all facets of football.

I am a scientist first and foremost. As a cardiologist, my job is to analyze data, studies, research, and numbers. I am an Economist by education. My undergraduate degree was Economics: the study of decision making. We use this skill every day in medicine and in football. In my other coaching books, I stress the importance of using data and statistics to tip the odds in your favor for winning. Put your players in the best possible position to win the game. We never make mistakes on decision making and statistics. There will never be a clock mismanagement issue or anything silly.

Using science, data, and statistics to win football games (and soccer games, see my soccer coaching book) is my philosophy. It usually works. There are some cases and some years where it doesn’t, but I have a pretty successful track record. Data > Feelings.

Many of us have experience coaching flag football. But again, flag is not tackle. Kids love flag. They hate being tackled to the ground. They hate getting hit. This is normal. Getting over the fear of hitting is important.