Trick Plays Category

Miami Miracle Hook & Ladder Breakdown

Posted on December 10th, 2018

FirstDown PlayBook walks you through some of the coaching points that most teams include when coaching the "Hook and Ladder" footb...

West Virginia Stole Our 4v4 Flag Football Play!

Posted on November 16th, 2018

As we began to draw the West Virginia play up we suddenly realized that it was very similar to a play that we had in our 4v4 flag ...

Buffalo Bills Fake Bubble Switch 89 TD!

Posted on November 2nd, 2018

The Bills outdid themselves by mixing in a post/wheel switch concept with number two and number three as the screen receiver becam...

How To Set Up Your End Around Run Plays

Posted on October 20th, 2018

Rarely does an End Around get called without it being set up by one or more other plays in the game plan designed to bait the defe...

Youth Football Reverse Trick Play

Posted on September 23rd, 2018

A third way to build your offense is with a trick play or two that comes off of your base plays. This past week FirstDown PlayBook...

Gain A Numbers Advantage With Unbalanced Shoot

Posted on June 1st, 2018

The backside X will now step back off of the ball. This makes the X eligible to come in motion and now you have a whole new look f...

Unbalanced Adds To Youth Football Section

Posted on May 9th, 2018

Most youth football coaches said that they did not want to run an unbalanced attack all the time but instead they wanted a few cha...

The Philly Special

Posted on February 5th, 2018

See, the thing about it is that before this play was the “Philly Special” it was the “Bears Special” and before that it wa...

FirstDown PlayBook Installs: January 2-8

Posted on January 2nd, 2018

Mark it down right now. Visit the FirstDown PlayBook booth number 239. We promise you will be glad you did....

Trick Plays Come Off Of Your Base

Posted on November 12th, 2017

Most successful trick plays come off of a play that an offense has run a lot and has run well. ...

Steelers Gamble With Fake Punt (But Maybe Not That Much)

Posted on October 23rd, 2017

There is a real possibility on this play that Dennard could get a pass interference call and never know the ball was thrown to the...

Chicago Bears Trick Play Well Planned!

Posted on October 11th, 2017

If you watched the Minnesota Vikings beat the Chicago Bears on Monday Night Football this week you saw the Bears call up a pretty ...

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