2012 Football Coaching Articles
164 articles from 10 issues — free to read
December 2012 issue 18 articles
- Welcome to the Pre-Season
- Quickness Drills - Essential for Quickness Development
- ALTERNATE TECHNIQUES TO INCREASE UPPER BODY STRENGTH
- Banner Year
- Buckle Up
- Secure the Future by Playing it Safe
- 10 Ways To Maximize Press Man Coverage
- Building Blocks – The day your 2012 season ends, your 2013 pre-season begins. Now is the time to build the foundation for your team’s future success.
- Keeping Score - Ways to Keep Your Off-Season Strength Program Competitive
- QB RUN/SCREEN OPTIONS OFF THE ZONE RUN GAME
- LINEBACKER TACKLING DRILLS AND TECHNIQUES
- Kickoff Coaching Strategies
- Quality Control – Planning Your Off-Season
- The National Forgotten League
- Top of the Line
- Student of the Game: Using Academic Resources to Enhance Your Program Part II The Guidance Hypothesis and Overtime Wednesday
- FREE FORM - Special Team Statistics: With the 2012 season completed, an often overlooked category is special team statistics
- Get Educated 2013 Coaches Clinics
October 2012 issue 18 articles
- Who is the Typical AFM Reader?
- STAYING SHARP Nine In-Season Training Tips
- The Speed Report - Combination Movement Skill Drills FOR THE SECONDARY
- Coach to Coach Dealing with Discipline
- Drills Report Bonus - Improving Your Offensive Production
- Drills Report Virginia Tech Running Back Drills
- Knowing the signs of concussion will help you protect your players.
- The Pirate Returns - Mike Leach brings his high-powered but surprisingly simple passing offense to Washington State
- Subscribers Ask - With Tony Sanchez Head Coach • Bishop Gorman (NV)
- KICKOFF BLOCK DESTRUCTION PROGRESSION
- Preparing Your Punt Teams
- ELWAY AND ZIGGY Using “Z Check” and Option Principles to Stop the Zone Read
- RED ZONE COVERAGES AND PHILOSOPHY To shut down a passing attack near the goal line, consider cover 7.
- FADE OUT - The fade route is a potent offensive weapon that can be incorporated into any offense.
- Student of the Game: Using Academic Resources to Enhance Your Program: Part I The Tactical Games Approach and Open Field Tackling
- Yoga and Football – Keeping Your Players on the Field
- FREE FORM - Quarterback Grade Sheet
- Sometimes the Best Strategies do Not Win Games
August/September 2012 issue 19 articles
- Big Man on Campus: On April 27 last year, a massive EF4 tornado ripped through Tuscaloosa, Alabama at 5 PM
- Expanded Special Teams: Kickoff and Punt Returns
- Leadership Lessons
- EXTENSION PLANTS The Key to Football Speed Transition
- COMPLEXITY Using Complex Warm-Ups to Jump Start Your Athlete’s Workout
- The Safety Rulebook
- Strategies to Overcome a Poor Start
- Reliable Performer
- Tide Talent Search
- Southern Savior: Saban's 10 Keys to Success
- Slowing Down the Spread
- Managing Your Managers
- Looking Back at the Backside Tackle
- Wide Receiver Play Base Fundamentals vs. Press Coverage
- Defending the Wing-T Offense
- FREE FORM - Weekly Practice Plan
- 12 Coaching Points for Motivation: Trust, Respect, Caring, Honesty
- Get More Out of Your Film By Having Better Film
- Coach Corporal: Football, Military, and Internal Discipline
July 2012 issue 16 articles
- Play Like a Champion
- Tournament Time
- Coach to Coach – Summer Session (Part II)
- Strength Report – Seven Phases
- Speed Report – Useful or Useless Speed and Movement Applications
- Drills Report – 13 Advanced Punting Ideas and Drills
- Safety First – Teaching safe tackling technique can reduce head and neck injuries and help protect the game’s future.
- That Championship Season – AFM’s 2011 Survey of 334 State Champions
- What, as a Defensive Coach, Gives You the Most Trouble?
- Coaching Technology – Today and Tomorrow
- Inside and Outside Zone Blocking
- Complete Cornerback Coverage Techniques
- Protecting the Split-Side Running Game
- Master Clinic – 5 Elements of Success in Coaching Football
- Boot Camp Day for High School Football
- VIDEOTAPING FOR AUGUST TWO-A-DAYS
June 2012 issue 17 articles
- UNSTOPPABLE
- Coach to Coach – Summer Session
- Strength Report – Maximizing Time in the Weight Room
- Drills Report – Linebacker Progression Drills
- Speed Report – Execution in Football and In Football Speed
- Diamond Backs – For a team with many playmakers, the Diamond formation may be the best way to showcase their talents.
- Reloading at Rockhurst – Tony Severino, the head coach at Rockhurst High School for 29 years, believes in keeping his players busy in all aspects of their lives – not just on the field.
- The “No Name Defense” – Mixing personnel, fronts, and coverages along with stunts and blitzes can continually keep an offense off-balance.
- 5-Step Passing Game Protection: Sliding to Protect
- The Double Slot, Triple Option Offense
- Disrupting the Spread with the 3-5 Defense
- Uphill Battle – Grambling’s ‘Back to the Basics’ strength and conditioning program challenges an athlete’s body as well as his mind.
- Managing Your Program
- Play-Action Passing From the Pistol
- Powerful Partnership
- Using the 3-5-3 to Stay One Step Ahead
- FREE FORM HS Equipment Inventory
May 2012 issue 17 articles
- Letter from AFM - Saluting Mentors
- Coach to Coach – Underestimating the Underdog
- Strength Report – New Mexico Military Institute’s Strength Program
- Speed Report – Multi-Dimensional Movement Speed Before the Season Begins
- Drills Report – Ball Security – 4 Running Back Drills to Prevent Turnovers
- The Fix Is In – Adjusting your defense at halftime and during the game can pay big dividends.
- Eyes Up – Quarterbacks Coach Terry Shea has devoted more than 40 years of his coaching life to the development of the position including the training of elite players like Robert Griffin III.
- Multiplicity – Using Personnel Groupings to Enhance Your Offense and Player Morale
- Tackling - Still the Key to Successful Defensive Play
- Punch and Move - Pass Protection Drills for Offensive Linemen
- AFM Subscribers Ask with Pulaski Academy (AR) Head Coach Kevin Kelley
- Special Teams – Practice Schedule, Goals, and Critique
- Philosophy of Pass Protection
- The Power of Knowing the Future
- FREE FORM - Conditioning Evaluation Form
- Tiger Feeding Time
- Louisiana Legend
April 2012 issue 17 articles
- Letter From The Editor/Publisher - Number Cruncher
- Coach to Coach – Maximizing Your Speed, Strength, and Conditioning Programs
- Love the Grind: Summer Football Strength and Conditioning Program
- Dynamic Relaxation, Rhythm, Intensity – Learned from Drill Applications
- Advanced Secondary Drills
- Mad Genius - Kevin Kelley’s unorthodox approach may break all the ‘rules’ but it sure produces results.
- Making the Most of the Hurry-Up, No-Huddle Offense - Calling plays at the line can let you double your offensive snaps.
- Different Looks from the 4-3 Defensive Scheme - To be effective as a defense, it’s critical to give multiple looks and disguise coverage on every play.
- Release and Separate - Wide receiver techniques that will gain an advantage.
- Winning the Turnover Battle - Three drills that will help your defense recover fumbles and make interceptions.
- Advanced Spread Punt Team Drills
- Open Opportunities - Get your tight end involved in the option pass game.
- Lafayette’s “Fourth Quarter” Off-Season Strength and Conditioning Competition
- Your Take: Review What You Do
- The Two Greatest Lessons that Football Teaches
- Developing Footwork for Your O-Linemen
- FREE FORM - How To Improve The Won-Loss Record: This form includes a detailed checklist of strategies and tactics on how to improve your…
March 2012 issue 15 articles
- Coaching to Make the Game Safer
- Moving Up, Moving On or Moving Out: Life on the Coaching Carousel
- The Challenges of Teaching Football Speed
- Taking Your Physical Abilities to the Next Level
- Advanced Tackling Circuit Drills
- Samson’s Strength and Conditioning Coaches of the Year
- 7 Steps to Dominance - Building Dominant Linemen in the Weight Room and On the Field
- Run Stoppers – Improve your defense with Princeton’s schemes, adjustments, and drills.
- Suited for Success – 2012 Football Uniforms
- Adapting Your D – Adjust Your 4-2-5 to deal with the special formations you will see.
- 6 Rules for Beating Press Coverage – Are your receivers getting stuffed by the press? Here’s how to get them freed up.
- Your Take – Get the Head Out of Football
- One More Trick Play Series
- Winning the First Five
- FREE FORM - Coaches Time Saving Memorandum
February 2012 issue 14 articles
- Letter from AFM- Home on the Range
- Speed Report - Movement Skills – Critical for Drill Effectiveness
- Strength Report – Maine’s Winter Strength & Conditioning Program, Part II – February and March
- Drills Report – Getting Open: Drills to Make Your Wide Receivers Great
- Coach to Coach – Maximizing Productivity: A Key Component to Success
- AFM’s College Coaches of the Year: Mike Gundy Oklahoma StateGundy led the Cowboys to the greatest year in their history,…
- AFM’s National and Regional High School Coaches of the Year
- The Power Read Run – Add this innovative run to your spread to rack up the yards.
- Stopping Power – Part II – Basic Coverages in the 4-2-5
- The Triple Option Trips Offense – Mixing and matching the routes and timing of three receivers can lead to an explosive offense.
- When and Why to Zone Blitz
- MANAGING YOUR ANXIETIES IN FOOTBALL
- FREE FORM: Game Clock Management Notes
- Train Your Brain – Your Competitive Edge
January 2012 issue 13 articles
- The NFL Gives Back – With Your Help
- Speed Report – The Off-Season is Back – Time for Foundation Speed Drills
- Strength Report – Maine’s Winter Speed, Strength and Conditioning Program –
- Drills Report – EXPANDED – Special Teams at South Dakota State
- Coach to Coach – Off-Season Priorities
- Stopping Power: Part I – Basics of the 4-2-5
- Texas Titans – Lake Travis High School has built a winning tradition from the ground up.
- Protecting the Passer – Key Elements
- Stopping the Run With the Odd Front Defense
- AFM Subs Ask - with former NFL special teams coach Mike Sweatman
- Muddle Hd” The New Age Muddle Huddle Two-Point Formation
- Getting Your Team Connected: By Eric Slivoskey, Former Coach Seinajoki Crocodiles (Finland) How connected are…
- Head Coach Self-Evaluation - Free Form
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