Winning football games is hard. Its hard for the coaches, its hard for the players and the entire program. Winning football games is also more than just X's and O's, it's about discipline, focus, execution, mental toughness, football IQ, and physical toughness. As the season is starting this week for many teams across the country, here are a few points to consider to help you win more football games!

Preparing for the Upcoming Season: A Head Coach’s 8 Step Guide. In this blog post I will outline some essential steps to help head coaches gear up for the upcoming season, focusing on strategy, team building, and operational readiness.

Whether you're coaching a youth or high school flag football team, or preparing high school athletes for contact football, the overall goals remain the same: build and improve skill, introduce and reinforce fundamentals, enhance performance, ensure safety, and develop smart high football IQ athletes.

Please welcome today's subject. Flippy the Quarterback. You know him. You all do. He is the QB that as soon as he takes the snap out of the gun, he flips the football around to find the laces. This is a huge problem in youth and HS and even in some college programs. So why do I make this the topic of today's blog post? Lets discuss! The QB is the only player on the offense who touches the ball EVERY SINGLE PLAY! Ball control and security would be an understatement.

As coaches, how many times have we declared, football is more than a game. But have we really ever thought about that? The game? Yes, we as coaches should all be passionate, focused, disciplined, engaging, fun, competent, win more than lose, etc. But have we really though about the game and what it means to your players?

One of the many things that drives me crazy, is seeing WR's in a improper/inefficient stance. This is a huge issue at the youth and HS level, and even some college levels if their players are not coached up. We explore the Wide Receiver Stance and Start principles from Penn State WR Coach Mark Dupuis principals and drills.

Ah...the OC and DC. Who is smarter when it comes to football? Does it matter? Let's explore why the OC/DC relationship is so important.

Coaching the Chip Block and Release is a thing of beauty. Many coaches never coach this so here are some coaching points to incorporate and coach your TE's RB's and WR's on how to properly execute this block.

The bane of coaching. Dealing with parents. I say "dealing" because most coaches are not very good at parent / coach communication and it turns into a debacle. Here we discuss ways to help Coaches succeeded.

What do your receivers do when they are getting their but kicked against Man or Press? If not handled and quickly, you're spread offense collapses because your receivers are neutralized and get demoralized and frustrated. Let's explore solutions including Spread Offense Motion.

Injury prevention starts in the weight room. Of all the benefits of the weight room, that is one of the biggest reasons to have your players in the weight room. Of course there is the camaraderie, team building, competition, strength and conditioning, and more. But getting the most out of your weight room sessions seems to be a lost art. Let's discuss.

Love or hate him, Coach Gruden knows football intimately.

What are the 4 criteria Coach Saban looks for in a Coach.

How many times have you hear the phrase "There is no I in team". I bet if you had a dollar for every time you and I heard that, you and I would be retired on some tropical beach. But what does it mean to be a team? A true team. A team that is unstoppable. I can tell you its more than just wearing the same uniform.

Ah....spring ball and the upcoming 7v7 Football tournament season. That chance to get your skill guys and gals out there competing and installing new concepts. What a great opportunity to inject some good coaching and training...or is it?

PLAYERS! Here are 10 things that take zero talent and will make you the kind of player coaches want to recruit and coach!

Coach, they keep holding me! A good O Line Coach is going to coach his players to hold and not get caught.

Coaching players is hard. Especially if you truly care about the players and their success. But what about you?

Youth and High School coaches love to run outside, in fact, the most common run play especially in youth football is outside! Why?

Coach Harbaugh's Leadership Coaching Points