Coach Parker's Coaching Youth Football Tips and Talk Podcast

In Part 5 of the Choosing a Youth Football Offense series we are reviewing popular youth football offenses; Split Backs, Spread, Gun-T and the Spread Formation.

Here are the other series parts;  ⁠⁠Part 1⁠⁠ , ⁠⁠Part 2⁠⁠ , ⁠Part 3⁠ , Part 4

You can read the blog posts here....

https://coachparker.org/2023/10/12/choosing-youth-football-offenses/

Check out all Coach Parker's digital youth football playbooks

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In Part 4 of the Choosing a Youth Football Offense series we are reviewing popular youth football offenses; I Formation, Split Back, Wishbone, T Formation and the Power I Formation.

Here are the other series parts;  ⁠Part 1⁠ and ⁠Part 2⁠ and Part 3.

You can read the blog posts here....

https://coachparker.org/2023/09/06/choosing-a-youth-football-offense-part-4/

Check out all Coach Parker's digital youth footbal...

Choosing a Youth Football Offense - Part 3 - Popular Youth Offenses UBSW / DW / Wing-T / Beast Offense

In Part 3 of the Choosing a Youth Football Offense series we are reviewing popular youth football offenses; DW, WT and Beast SW based on 15 of the 25 important variables that I outlined in Part 1 and Part 2. At the last of part 2 we looked at the Unbalanced Single Wing Offense (UBSW) as an intro to Part 3.

In Part 3 of this series...

Choosing a Youth Football Offense is a daunting task for any youth football tackle coach, experienced or not. This is Part 2 of a multi part series on how to choose a youth football offense for your football team. In these first two articles I am reviewing the important variables in choosing an offense for your team.

If you have not read Part One then do so now.

Choosing a Youth Football Offense Part 2 Important Variables Blog Pos...

Choosing a Youth Football Offense is a tough decision for a new youth football coach and an experienced one too. Recently, I went down the Rabbit Hole to try find the magic solution or hidden door to answer this difficult question. In my research, many coaches will tell me what they think is the simplest or best youth offense and it is mainly the offense they already know. In a past blog post I did write about what I think are the ...

8U Youth Football Season Status Before Our First Game

8U team 15 players mostly rookies with a top tier tailback, fullback, and lineman. We are down to 13 now.

Two players quit. Our fourth-round pick quit because of rides and possibly another team issue as a promise, and then we had a rookie player that did quit he did not like hitting or really playing football that much.

We had four weeks practice up until today and that is down ...

50 Common Coaching Mistakes Made by Youth Football Coaches to Avoid

These are 50 coaching mistakes made by youth football coaches when coaching youth football. Coach Parker has made a few of these over his 30 years coaching youth football and wanted to share how to avoid these common coaching mistakes.   

1. Daddy Ball especially at QB or TB 2. Promising Players certain positions on Team when recruiting players 3. Too muc...

Coaching vs Talent in Youth Football | Great Youth Players or Great Youth Coaches?

Coaching vs Talent debate in youth football coaching is an old debate. I feel like great Talent is a good to have on your team even if you are already a good youth football coach.  We spend extra time upfront evaluating and drafting our team and it pays off in the long run.

How much does Coaching matter in youth football?

How much does Talent ma...

Tips for Rookie First Time Youth Football Coaches / 1o Tips for Coaching Youth Football 

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https://youthfootballcoachingtips.com/9-coaching-youth-football-tips/

1) Practice Plans for Youth Football

2) Proven Youth Football Playbooks / Schemes

3) Loyal Coaching Staff

4) Parent Communication and Management

5) Roster / Talent Development & Recognition

6) Find a Mentor / Student of the Game

7) P...

This youth football coaching podcast / video on Football Game Film Breakdown / Football Scouting Breaking Down Game Video and preparing Scout Team Reports by Coach Parker is a clinic on how to Breakdown game film and prepare your team for the next opponent. 

General Scouting / Breaking Down Game Film

1) Formations – Offense / Defense/ Special Teams

2) Top 5 Plays – Run & Pass

3) Tendencies & Patterns – left or rig...

Crazy Sports Parents - Team Moms / QB Dads Playtime - Toxic Parents Part 2

Part 2 is focused on Issues with Team Parents and Parents of Quarterbacks around playtime / starting positions.

See article on Choosing a Team Mom

https://coachparker.org/2011/01/09/choosing-a-team-mom-in-youth-football/

See article on Choosing a Youth Football QB

https://coachparker.org/2021/06/25/choosing-a-youth-football-quarterback/

from - Toxic Sports P...

Toxic Sports Parents Experiences 50 Crazy Parent Issues

article from my blog - https://coachparker.org/2022/06/01/toxic-sports-parents/

I ran into a few toxic sports parents, this past Spring 2022 while helping out two youth football teams in a part time capacity. One team with vocal obnoxious parents got me thinking about past and present; Toxic Sports Parents Experiences, my 50 Crazy Parent Issues.

Here is my list of 50 issues wi...

Is Your Coaching Effort 110%? Why not?

I think coaches need to decide their commitment levels. If they ask their players for 110% then they must also ask themselves for 110%

Original Tweets - 

“Football’s not played on a whiteboard” is one saying that gets under my skin. Complete cop-out. The offseason is for finding schematic answers to issues. And there’s nothing wrong with saying “we have a dude at __ so thats not...

Offensive Line Practice - Fun Stuff!

In this podcast I talk about my time last night coaching a 7th grade offensive line squad. I had a great time with the big boys. We went through a Chalk Talk, Rule Blocking identification, Step Drills, Sumo Ring Quick Hands & Aggression Drill and Team Offense walk throughs. I absolutely love coaching offensive line and had to talk about it today. I hope you also learn to love coaching the o-...

These are the Best Youth Football Plays picked by Coach Parker. These 10 top youth football plays and concepts are an updated list from his original blog post almost 10 years ago; https://coachparker.org/2012/10/11/best-offensive-plays-in-youth-football/

In this updated best youth football plays version Coach Parker reviews the original play then talks about the play concept wit 3 other formations like the Off-Set I, T Formation, B...

Coach Parker's new T Formation Selected Youth Football Plays eBook; The Tiger T, is 398 pages long with 15 T play series and over 200 T plays / diagrams.  This is a great T Offense resource for any football coach. 

For $14.99 it is a great deal on a youth football coaching book on the T Offense. Look inside the eBook by watching this video. For more on the eBook check out this link https://coachparker.org/2022/02/18/youth...

I just finished the Fall 2021 Season with a 4-4 and a 1st round Playoff loss with an 8U rec youth football team. This was a tough season. Since it was so tough, I went back and reviewed 7 other 8U youth football teams that I have coached.  One was a young youth football team with losses and others with Super Bowls and top 3 and 4 finishes.  I compared 25 characteristics and came to a few conclusions. Listen to the podcast...

This video reviews the 62 Wide Tackle Youth Football Defense Day 1 Install Wide Tackle 6 Coach Parker's 62 Multi 8 Defense. 

In this video Coach Parker reviews the 62 Wide Tackle Defense day 1 install. 

1) Position Names

2) Where to Line up

3) Gaps

He also reviews a Tackle Circuit.

Here's another video on installing the 62 Defense

https://youtu.be/P-3GwmJDSZc

Here's the Seahawk Tackling video

https://youtu....

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://coachparker.org/2020/06/16/works-youth-football-offense-defense/

How do you know what works on a Youth Football Offense against an unknown #1 Defense? This is a great question about youth football offenses. I struggle with this offensive issue against new teams and many times for the first game of the season. Everyone hates the unknown! How does your team stack up against the l...