Three-Step & Five-Step Drop Quarterback Drills In today’s video blog post, we are highlighting Three-Step & Five-Step Drop Quarterback Drills.  Drop Quarterback drills are excellent b... More

I have a saying that says, Players make plays. Coaches can be the greatest coaches in the world, but unless they have good players, they’re not going to be very good. In today’s blog po... More

Often times I hear from youth football coaches that X or Y can be done with “all” youth football teams. When you do your due diligence, though often times you see those guys are playing with a stacked... More

Right Legged Thrust Speed Drill In today’s video blog post, we are featuring a “Right Legged Thrust” speed drill that allows the athlete to build on just the right leg, resulting in a lot mor... More

If you are looking for more great football plays, I have got another killer play for you today!  The “Strong I Right 24 Blast” Football Plays – The Strategy Because of the deep ha... More

If you are looking for a great offensive line drill for warmups, “Ball Punches” are a fabulous practice drill that will help your players to train the hands and work on punching through the chest. ... More

Today, we are going to talk about a variety of rush drills that will help enhance an athlete’s performance throughout the season. Pass Rush Transition Drill In the pass rush transition drill,... More

In today’s video blog post, we are talking about the “Cup-It Drill”, which is a great football drill for incorporating “team-ness”.  This is a great team tackling drill, and once ... More

If you are looking for more great football plays, I have got another killer I Form Running Play for you today! Football Plays – The Strategy Football is a game of inches, and sometimes, that’s all ... More

The Importance of the Passing Game When Coaching Youth Football   Many youth football coaches look at their kids and look at their league and they see lots of teams futility in throwing the football. ... More

There are many common offensive line mistakes that all teams make.  You see them in youth, freshman, JV, and high school football.  But today, we are going to talk about how you can fix these commo... More

Last week in Ft Meyers Florida, I helped a youth football team along with a couple of long time friends, Dan Schalger and Jeff Miret. The coaches we helped kept referring to us as the youth football c... More

I am gathering information on 7 on 7 football for any 6th grader attending Hillwood as a 7th graders in the Fall 2013 with my son Zane Parker.  If we can get enough experienced players and a throwing ... More

I see a lot of youth coaches asking their players to use techniques that often times make a youth player play slow. Speed and quickness are the keys in youth football at every position on the field. S... More

Thanks again to all the fellas in SEC Country, we had a near sellout at our youth coaching clinic in Atlanta.  Thanks to a very active and engaged crowd we were able to do a lot of demos and dig deep ... More

Any time that you can get competition going between players during practice, it creates fun. Football’s supposed to be fun. And guys compete with each other, challenge each other, with the lo... More

Just now I was looking over my blog stats and came across this search phrase, ” should I coach my youth football team to win?”  And, I just had to start writing this post. Oh this is a sad... More

I’ve had a lot of people ask me about football outside the US. I’ve done over 150 clinics, done several for Canadians, Germany and now Panama. I’m going to write up an entire article... More

On the Youth Football Coaching Clinic Circuit- Dallas Thanks to the nice folks at Glazier Clinics we had a nice crowd in Dallas. Pictured here is Rob Adams our Winning Youth Football Coach of the Year... More

For the last several seasons I have been playing around with many different youth football blocking rules, schemes and calls to advanced our youth football offensive line blocking.  We are still not p... More

A few years ago I reviewed many platforms for communicating and building a youth sports team website.  You can find the articles here at http://coachparker.org/tag/team-website/.   In the Fall of 2010... More

Sean Payton did a great service to the game by coaching Youth Football this year. Up close and personal, a heartwarming story.More

The kicking game seems to be an afterthought for most youth football coaches. You have such limited amounts of practice time and so much to get done, that kicking gets ignored. Hey, I understand that ... More

As many of you know the game of youth football is being assaulted from many sides. Many youth football programs numbers are suffering as the feeding frenzy instigated by a very small but very vocal gr... More

Last month, I ran into a few former youth football players and their parents at various restaurants around Keller, Texas.  I was so happy they approached me to say hello and talk about football.  The ... More

I always laugh at middle school and high school coaches that say pee wee coaches do not how to coach football.  Well, maybe a large percentage of pee wee coaches do not know how to coach football at a... More

I was looking through my web stats this morning and came across this search engine search phrase; Why bench your best player during a scrimmage?  Nice, I have an idea for a blog post youth football ar... More

We finally made it to my favorite and best youth football play since I started coaching youth football  in 1994; Beast Right Tank.  In my rookie coaching season with Plano Sports Authority just north ... More

I met with my co-head coach last night for a coach’s meeting to discuss our upcoming tryouts 2/9 and draft the following week.  We get to keep up to 6 players from our Fall team and draft a new ... More

Nothing is as beautiful as simplicity and when the Double Wing 40 FB Gut Wedge is working then life is good on the gridiron.  I know many of you hate the Wedge play because it’s not “real ... More