Spread Offense Football Coaching Guide (Includes Images)

ByCoach Martin|Football Offense

The spread offense is one of the most popular offensive formations used nowadays at the collegiate and professional levels of football.

With coaches at all levels seeing the various benefits of the spread offense, it’s starting to trickle its way down to high school, and to even less experienced levels of football as well.

The spread offense today isn’t just one basic formation for a team with a specific set of skills that runs plays in a specific set of ways.

Tampa 2 Defense Football Coaching Guide (Includes Images)

ByCoach Martin|Football Defense

The Tampa 2 defense is a formation that is named appropriately for a specific team’s approach to defense.

Much like the “46 Defense” was named after the stout defense of the 1985 Chicago Bears, the Tampa 2 defense was named after the defense that the NFL’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers ran in the late 1990s.

Tampa head coach Tony Dungy and defensive coordinator Monte Kiffin created what is now known as the Tampa 2 defense as a way to modify the traditional Cover 2 defense for the West Coast Offense.

West Coast Offense Football Coaching Guide (Includes Images)

ByCoach Martin|Football Offense

The West Coast offense derives its name from the location where its creator made his name. Bill Walsh actually created the offense as the quarterbacks coach and play caller for the Cincinnati Bengals in the late 1960s. Walsh became known as one of the greatest NFL coaches of all time after leading the San Francisco 49ers (and […]

Pro Style Offense Football Coaching Guide (Includes Images)

ByCoach Martin|Football Offense

Pro Style offenses are named after the level of play where they are most often run… At the NFL level or with collegiate teams who have a similar personnel and skillsets with that of a typical professional team. The reason for this is that Pro Style offenses are generally more complex and take more skill to run […]

Air Raid Offense Football Coaching Guide (Includes Images)

ByCoach Martin|Football Offense

In the mid-1980s, the college football offensive landscape was built around running the football. Sure, some teams with strong-armed quarterbacks would run some type of Pro Style offense, with their passer standing tall in the pocket… But the majority of plays were still in the running game. In fact, there were still plenty of college teams at this […]

5-2 Defense Football Coaching Guide (Includes Images)

ByCoach Martin|Football Defense

In obvious running situations for the offense – when the down and distance is third-and-one let’s say – defenses often adjust by going to what’s called a “big” or “stack” formation. This brings extra bodies near the line of scrimmage to stop the run. One of the most popular defensive formations to do this out of is […]

46 Defense Football Coaching Guide (Includes Images)

ByCoach Martin|Football Defense

The 46 defense is perhaps the most famous alignment around. That’s because it’s associated with possibly the greatest defense in the history of the National Football League – the 1985 Chicago Bears. That team was a dominating force, with its defense helping to lead the team to a 15-1 record and a Super Bowl championship. The Bears’ defensive […]

4-2-5 Defense Football Coaching Guide (Includes Images)

ByCoach Martin|Football Defense

More than 10 years ago, the 4-2-5 defensive alignment was created as a wrinkle in defensive formations that caused opposing offenses a lot of headaches. It’s an alignment that attacks, attacks, and attacks some more with almost free will… Relying on players to use their instincts to make quick decisions instead of reading the full play and […]

How to Catch a Football Easily (4-Step Guide)

ByCoach Martin|Football Basics

One of the most overlooked parts of training is learning how to catch a football. A lot goes into a passing play in football… From the perfect snap from the center, to good pass protection by the offensive line, to good routes run by the receivers, to finally a good pass thrown by the quarterback. But once all […]

How to Run the Single Wing Offense (Complete Football Guide)

ByCoach Martin|Football Offense

The single-wing offense was one of the first true offensive formations in American football. It was created by the legendary Pop Warner. (That’s the same Pop Warner that youth football leagues around the country were named after.) This offense dominated offensive playbooks of teams at every level of football for many years. Then, slowly by surely, the single-wing offense […]