The best-selling guide on the essentials of the game is bigger, better, and more comprehensive than ever.
Solid blocking, sure tackling, proper footwork, precise routes, correct coverage angles, and synchronized body movements—these basic techniques are all essential to winning football. Football Skills & Drills is your guide to success, explaining how to teach key skills and consistent execution to players in offensive, defensive, and special-teams positions.
You will benefit from the same techniques used by top college and professional teams as well as from a complete arsenal of more than 100 drills. From quarterback rollouts for winning touchdowns to block-shedding maneuvers for drive-stopping sacks, Football Skills & Drills translates technical instruction into on-field application, depicting exactly how each pass, pattern, route, catch, block, tackle, and kick is performed.
Make Football Skills & Drills the foundation of your quest for a title.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Key to Diagrams
Chapter 1 All Players
Chapter 2 Quarterbacks
Chapter 3 Offensive Linemen
Chapter 4 Running Backs
Chapter 5 Wide Receivers
Chapter 6 Tight Ends
Chapter 7 Defensive Linemen
Chapter 8 Linebackers
Chapter 9 Defensive Backs
Chapter 10 Special-Teams Players
Drill Finder
About the Author
Tom Bass coached with three NFL teams—the Cincinnati Bengals, the
Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and the San Diego Chargers—as well as at the
collegiate level at San Jose State University and San Diego State
University.
For the past ten years coach Bass has served as the technical writer and
advisor for USA Football and was a major contributor to the content of
USA Football’s new multilevel youth football age specific coaching
certification program. He serves as the chairman of the technical
committee for USA Football and hosts the "Let's Talk Football" Q&A
column on their website www.USAFootball.com. Coach Bass also interacts
with and advises football coaches, players, parents, and fans.
Bass is the creator of Coach Bass Sport Maps, the author of NFL Nintendo
Game for NFL Properties, and several books. He is a longtime editor of
the official Super Bowl Program. He has been a featured guest on
numerous sports talk and interview shows on radio and television,
including HBO, ABC Nightly News, and ESPN. Bass resides in Carlsbad,
California.
”Tom has always been regarded as one of the great minds in the
game of football. Football coaches at all levels will find great benefit
from his thoughts and principles.”
Pete Carroll
Head Football Coach
Seattle Seahawks