Pressure

Pass Protection With Your Receivers

Pass Protection With Your Receivers

by FirstDown PlayBook on Feb 1, 2024

At the highest levels of football pass protection requires all eleven players be on the same page. This means your receivers too....

Get Home With Nickel Knife Fire Zone 3

Get Home With Nickel Knife Fire Zone 3

by FirstDown PlayBook on Oct 19, 2022

We call this pressure Nickel Knife Fire Zone 3. It is one of over 57 different varsity defensive pressures in FirstDown PlayBook....

Have A Bootleg Pass Pressure Plan

Have A Bootleg Pass Pressure Plan

by FirstDown PlayBook on May 24, 2022

Pressure is not a good thing when you call a boot or waggle. However, a bootleg pass pressure plan can give you a chance to salvage the play....

Bearcat Corner Fire Gets Home

Bearcat Corner Fire Gets Home

by FirstDown PlayBook on Dec 5, 2021

We want to highlight this Cincinnati Bearcat corner fire that resulted in a sack last night. This was a beautifully executed blitz....

Jaguars Five Man Pressure Creates Big Turnover

Jaguars Five Man Pressure Creates Big Turnover

by FirstDown PlayBook on Nov 8, 2021

This Jaguars five man pressure with zone behind it was one of the biggest plays in the game and resulted in an Allen to Allen interception....

Not Too Late For Your Defensive Pressure Package

Not Too Late For Your Defensive Pressure Package

by FirstDown PlayBook on Oct 2, 2021

One of the areas that you may still be tweaking week to week with your football team is your defensive pressure package....

Two Tight End Hitch Screen

Two Tight End Hitch Screen

by FirstDown PlayBook on Jul 31, 2020

Someone who had previously worked with Andy Reid said that Reid thought the screen game was so important that they had a screen period every practice....

Screens, Tight Ends & Fullbacks Dominate NFL TV

Screens, Tight Ends & Fullbacks Dominate NFL TV

by FirstDown PlayBook on Dec 22, 2019

The death of the fullback has been greatly exaggerated. Who could have seen this coming, except for every older football coach out there....