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What is 11 Personnel Football? (Full Explanation)

By Coach Martin | Football Basics

Football coaches have come up with naming conventions for just about everything in the game to make things easier to understand on the fly.

By simply calling out a few numbers or a few words, they can accurately and effectively help themselves and everyone else understand a certain situation.

One example of this is the naming convention used to identify positions on the field on offense — generally referred to as personnel groupings.

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What is a Wheel Route in Football? (Full Explanation)

By Coach Martin | Football Strategies

The wheel route in football is one of the simplest, yet most devastating passing routes.

The route forces the defender to move quickly laterally, and then quickly turn around and start running upfield in hopes of covering the receiver.

It’s a great route to teach football players of any age because it’s so easy to learn and can be run from pretty much any area of the field.

Let’s take an in-depth look at what the wheel route is, why it’s called that, and how to run it.

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What are Special Teams in Football? (Explained)

By Coach Martin | Football Strategies

What’s so special about special teams in football?

A lot, actually.

When most people think of football teams, they think of only two units — the offense and the defense.

But special teams is that often-forgotten third unit that can have a huge impact on the game.

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Icing the Kicker: Does it Actually Work? (Answered)

By Coach Martin | Football Strategies

There are a lot of different strategies that football coaches employ to give their team an advantage in games.

One such strategy is strictly mental, though, and the merits of whether or not it works are constantly being debated.

The strategy to which we are referring here is known as icing the kicker.

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