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No preference. Just take away the run and make that 8th grade quarterback prove he can beat you with his arm. Youth coaches running a spread offense want you to spread out with them. Don't.
Thank you. And thanks for the incredible resources you guys provide. With the increase in competitive flag leagues we are seeing the passing skills of young quarterbacks drastically improving at a younger age.
Yeah but how do the players access the notes... I think thats a missing feature that needs to be added. I got a whole roster of players asking about plays.... when the detailed notes would save me and my staff a significant amount of time
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"I see nothing about this formation that teaches youth football" - Says the clown in reference to the 1920 Yale Single Wing formation. As Lombardi said, "Football is two things. It's blocking and tackling. I don't care about formations or new offenses or tricks on defense. You block and tackle better than the team you're playing, you win." You sitting down on your high horse telling me that these kids won't block or tackle when this formation is in? You sitting down on your high horse telling me that those men at Yale weren't blocking or tackling when this formation is in? You sound like a coach who doesn't know football, and is salty that his team is getting smoked by old school Pop Warner stuff. If you want air raid, go watch the National Catching League formally known as the NFL.
The Beast doesn’t teach blocking. It’s all one blocking style and nothing more. Easily rattled are we? The Jumbo or the Power I are two formations that can help prove our point here. These offenses provide multiple blocking styles and actually teach blocking, whereas the beast is “run straight.” That’s not teaching. Do a little more homework before your next comment, some of us here actually made a career from coaching. “You sitting down on your high horse…” I bet you’re a joy to be around, huh?
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Do you worry about playing this defense against athletic QBs? I'd like to see this played against Shotgun Tight Bunch X Nasty. How do you deal with QB bash, Outside Zone weak and/or Split Zone???
This defense is pretty tried and proven at whatever level, but this particular video is about a youth football coach trying to defeat a youth football offense that pulls their guards a lot. I personally think that teaching zone blocking to young players is hard, not to mention that it is hard to find a zone combination when the center and both guards are covered.
Quick question coach. First time youth football coach for an 8u team. Struggling to choose between the 4-4 Defense or the 5-3 Defense. What would be your opinion on the best defense to run for an 8u youth football team?
Hey Coach! We like the 4-4 for that situation so that you can ultimately turn it into the 6-2 just by walking your outside linebackers up. If you find yourself getting beat on the outside, widen them out and back them up to a true 4-4 and that should help!
As a new youth coach , i cant agree with you more with your opening statement. Its so easy to confuse 10u players Gap resposibility and fundementals are key. It will breed confidence
Good question. A levels concept is where we would start. With that, you are trying to make the defenders defend too much grass. Deeper route, mid-route, and a shallow route. The second thought is a mesh/crossing style pattern. This will make the defenders jump out of the area. A really good coached zone defense can be tough, but there will always be gaps!
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Everything seems to be a variation of something or the other. The single wing offense is much more complex compared to the “beast.” Biggest difference is that the single-wing offense will teach a lot more about the game of football and set players up for success!
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You are severely wrong Coach, the Beast is Football ran in it's earliest form and it's a Sister to the Single Wing. Ran right, it's a very dominant Offense and it's hard to stop even with the Diagram you've presenting now. I have ran the Beast for years and it works. Keeping in mind that it was invented before the "Forward Pass," it's perfect for Teams who don't have a Quarterback because EVERYONE WAS A RUNNINGBACK THEN. People who are afraid of change is people who don't want to make change. The Beast works. By the way, I won a Championship using the Beast too. The Beast is a great way to teach everything Football is supposed to teach.
Waited for all of the edits to be made. We disagree. Sure, you can use it to win games. If it’s not broke, don’t fix it. Our biggest issue is the “beast” does not teach everything football is supposed to teach. There is so much left out that’s it’s stupid to even argue. If you like it, great! If you don’t like it, great.
We used this when I was playing in what was known as the midget football league. No, we weren't midgets but we were 7th and 8th graders. It was our 77/78 school year. The first time we used this it got us a touchdown. It's funny because really it wasn't the play that actually led us to scoring. It was the fact that when we lined up the way we did, it completely confused the kids on the other team. They were standing around scratching their heads, asking questions when we snapped the ball. None of them ever attempted to stop the runner with the ball. All the runner had to do was run the almost 80yrds to the in-zone without running out of gas or falling down. We used the play one other time later in the season against another team. You know how fast word gets around to others when something like this happens and the other team was prepared and adjusted their defensive line. We finished the season with only one loss and decades of fun memories.
@FirstDownPlayBook what makes it even cooler is that since I made my comment here, I found our teams group photo. It's 46 years old and in excellent condition. The story gets better! Our coach that taught us the play lives a mile from me and he's 75yrs old now. I'm going to have a copy made for him and have it framed with all the players names.
Put all your defenders on the line of scrimmage- giving one level of defenders and no pursuit players- that’s a great solution. And teaching them to “crab” is real football. 🙄
@@FirstDownPlayBook one level of defense, having defensive linemen fall on the ground. That's great for pursuit. It's a real stupid and ineffective against this offense. Would love to see any game film you have of this defense defending the beast. Unless you don't have any?
Pursuit…the one drill you know it seems. You’re missing the point of defending the “beast.” It is a gimmick offense that does not help teach solid foundational football to anyone involved with it. Once the fall arrives, go to your local high school on short yardage situations when a team lines up in a heavy run style offense. Not one singular Coach gives a crap when it’s 4th & goal about pursuit. Watch the linemen…you’ll see. If that’s when you run the beast, or any other offense it’s mocking for heavy run…it has a purpose.
@@FirstDownPlayBook It's a gimmick offense? It's used on all levels of football. Going unbalanced and direct snapping to your RB and running plays like Power, ISO, Counter is all a gimmick? Running Power is a gimmick?
Running the beast in Youth football is a gimmick. Since you are failing to see this conversation….running the beast as your main offense in “Youth” football is a gimmick. You’re building your ego and not building players. Every single team will have some type of short yardage go to….so be it if you call it the beast…but to use as your only offense for youth football…it’s a joke to call yourself a coach…
In a 5-3 the QB is going to have to get rid of the ball in a hurry because they're one-on-one up front.. I like the odds of the defense 1on1 finding a mismatch or two that can really get pressure on a quarterback and we all know 5-3 is the best defense at stopping the Run
It was my first year as a defensive coordinator and those who doubt this I ran a variation of this and our kids won district! 8-0 38 points aloud all year 4.75 points per game 5 shutouts Thanks to this channel for helping me deciding what I wanted to do when I started working on our defense this summer!
It could be either. What works best for you is the only answer. For us, this would be a tight-end style body for blocking purposes, but several teams use this position to sneak an athlete in for play-action passes.
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We dropped our rusher as a safety and played man to man with 1 safety in the middle of the field. If the QB started running we went into a 4 corner-2 linebackers-1 safety look with the 2 backers responsible for the running back and center in a zone like defense. If we had superior athletes we sent a blitz and just played pretty much outright man.
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Hey coach , this is my first year coaching , any tips on what I should focus my first 2 weeks of practice on ? Or even the first day what should practice look like
When I played we did a lot of Spread formation, ofcourse since I was a Hornet our plays are actually much different. We did have our sweeps, center spread etc. but we also had special plays like Hornet Spread, Hornet Sting (Basically this was more like a Center Sneak.) I played as the Center for Harrold Hornets back in the day so most plays are engrained into my memory, even though its been over 10 years If I where to be in the huddle with the boys I would know exactly what to do. We had 8 men on our 6 man football team, it was tough but our love for the game was life.
Imagine looking Pop Warner in the face and telling him his offense "isn't real football". The absurd entitlement and over inflated sense of ego involved is astounding.
One hundred years ago, you would have been correct. Pop Warner's teams also wore leather helmets. Football evolves. Beast does not teach enough of the modern football skill set.
