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Getting Accurate Football Predictions

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When looking to make football predictions, there are many things you should take into consideration. You should look at recent changes to the play lineup, as well as player stats, you should look at the defensive line compared to the offensive line of the teams, and you should consider where the team is playing, because according to many people playing on your home field will give you some kind of advantage. Weather should also be looked at, some teams play better in the rain than others do, and some prefer to play in slightly overcast weather.

When you want to make smart football predictions, looking at each player that will be playing is a smart place to start. You should not only look at the average for each player, but things that will affect their game as well. Say you have a player with an amazing touchdown average, if they are sick or have a recent injury; they are going not going to play at the same standard. You should also pay attention to lineup changes because some players will play better with other players they mesh with better, they will have routines and know how to react to each player, a new player will throw off that balance.

You shouldn’t just look that the players as a single part when making football predictions, you should look at them as part of a machine. They are an important part to the team, yes, but one person does not make then whole team. If you have an amazing offensive line, but a bad defensive line, you will score, but also be scored on easily. If you are facing a team with really good offensive line, then you want a great defensive line, having a team that is well matched will make for a better game. It will be easier to predict that a team with a strong defensive line will have fewer points scored on them than one without.

When looking at the defensive line, you should also look at the offensive line. Football predictions are done a lot, by who has the strongest offensive line. A strong offensive line will make for a high scoring game. IF you are predicting sports, looking at the scoring average of the team is something that you should do, but also be careful and make sure to consider other advantages.

If you are making football predictions, consider many things, but most importantly consider how those things work together. Just because a team has an amazing offensive line, doesn’t mean they will win. They may have a weak defensive line and as soon as the other team gets the ball, they will be at a disadvantage. Consider every aspect of the game that you are making predictions on, how well do the teams measure up to each other? Which team is the home team? As long as you consider everything that you can, it is possible to be very successful to predict games as well as the general score of the game.

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Revitalizing Middle School American Football Running Back Drills

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Learning the Plays from the Playbook

Learning a play is critical because when an individual learns a play and executes it properly, it benefits the whole team. In order to start learning a play, make sure that you first pay attention to the instructions when they are given. As you start to practice the play make sure to slow it down, there is no sense in practicing errors. Remember that if you need help, you should ask for it. At times we have seen a player fail to advance or refine their techniques because they don’t ask for added assistance. Don’t let this happen to you Are you done with the play after practice? No wayt thing that you can do after practice is visualize your plays. Sleep on them, and you will learn them twice as fast.

Hand off drill

Running backs should constantly practice the hand off. This drill requires more than one player; it starts off with two lines, line A and line B, the front of each line facing each other a couple of yards apart. A player leaves line A with the football and runs at line B. At the same time that the first player leaves player B leaves his line towards player A, as they pass each other in the middle player A hands off the football to player B. At the point of the hand off another player leaves line A and runs towards player B, who hands off the ball to the new player. This drill should perform in a seamless motion. It is an effective drill to teach handoff skills and help running backs achieve higher accuracy and consistency.

How to overpower on the line of scrimmage

Find a soft spot and push hard, that is what line strategies are all about. Use the proven technique of double teaming to get great results on the field This play is simple, double up and push through. The strategy works for putting a hole in the line of scrimmage as two easily overpowers one. To execute this properly have both linemen step together at the same time and lock their hips together. This forms an impenetrable line in the middle and as each lineman is on the edge of the opponent it will be very difficult to go around. Concentrate on this wall so that the opponent cannot duck around or go through the double team. Also, this maneuver needs to happen quickly and efficiently.

Learning the Basics of Catching a Low Football Pass

Good receivers and even running backs know how to make the great plays. Making the plays means that you have practiced the non-optimal situation and know how to react to them. One situation that most offensive players will face is the low catch. Here are some secrets to making this catch. First keep the pinkies together down low to make a shovel. This technique stops the ball from bouncing away and also helps the player scoop up the ball quickly. Second, keep your knees bent low and in extreme cases you should be flat on the ground or diving. Second, bend your knees and get low. Third, once you have caught the ball, tuck it away as soon as possible. Always watch the ball through from the first time you see it in the air until it is in a secure ball carrying position. Last, concentrate on catching it first and then worry about the defense, and scoring some more yards.

Review Billy Wingrove Learn Freestyle Football Vol 1

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I’m very keen in freestyle football since last year, 2006. So I watched a few video clips on the internet to learn a few tricks. I thought I’d give it a go on this DVD and see how it can improve my freestyle soccer tricks. Here’s the review:

There are several features on this DVD and all are guided by Billy himself.

First Part
Recommends proper equipment like the outfit, shorts, shoes and a soccer ball for freestyle soccer.Teaches some basic warm-ups like stretching knees and calfs before you start practicing freestyle soccer. Then some basic juggling soccer skills and simple stalls on each part from foot to head.

Second Part
You’ll learn some intermediate skills like Guardiolas. You’ll also learn on combining previous skills that you’ve learned to form a simple combination. There are 3 combinations showed in this DVD varying in difficulty levels.

Third Part
In this section, you’ll learn on how to apply certain tricks in the soccer field. Billy will show you on a futsal turf on how to do soccer tricks like Penalty X, Cyclone and many more.

In between the 3 parts of this DVD will show Billy Wingrove’s background, his favourite Premiership team, his career and where he started playing freestyle soccer.

My Recommendation
After watching this DVD for several times, I found that the DVD is useful for newbies in freestyle soccer. If you’re unfamiliar to basic soccer skills, then this is the DVD for you because Billy will show step-by-step with slow motion in each soccer trick. But for those who are intermediates and advance freestylers may get disappointed because the lack of cool, hard-to-do tricks.

Overall the DVD has an excellent replay value and it’s worth investing to start your freestyle soccer adventure.

Football Fumbler – Reduce Turnovers – Reduce Your Fumbles

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Remember the last time you fumbled? Remember how you felt, going back the side lines?

The Football Fumbler is football training equipment designed to help reduce fumbles. Running backs, quarterbacks and receivers training with the Football Fumbler will improve your football skills with more ball awareness and reduce your fumbles.

Turnovers have become a major part of football often determining a games out come.

Defenses are becoming more focused on how to strip the football from you quarterbacks and ball carriers. Honing their take-away football skills, defenses, practice ball stripping and take-away drills.

Quarterbacks and ball carriers you need to protect the ball more, have more ball awareness and have more ball control, to reduce the chances of a forced take-away.

Ball carriers, Football Fumbler is the perfect football training aid for you if you are dedicated to reducing fumbles and being stripped of the ball.

The Fumbler is a nylon cord that attaches to the football. It comes with the practice drills you need to run to have better ball control and reduce fumbles.

You hold the ball in your hand and arm like usual. Running at about half speed, your training partner jerks on the cord, simulating a defender jerking on your arm, trying to force a fumble stripping you of the ball.

This practice drill will increase your ball awareness and give you better ball control. The more you practice the more it will be second nature for you to protect the ball fighting off the ball from being stripped from you.

You will find you have more ball awareness and ball control while you are fighting for more yards.

In conclusion, if you want to play like the a pro, you need to train like a pro. Reduce your number of fumbles, train with Football Fumbler.

Choosing Defensive Coverages To Match Your Fronts In Coaching Football

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One of the biggest mistakes you can make in creating your defense and calling your defense is not matching the coverage to the front. Your coverages and your fronts must work together to best stop the run and the pass.

It doesn’t matter which one you decide to set first, front or coverage (kind of a chicken and egg thing), but they have to match. It should go without saying that if you want to run an 8-man front, you can’t run a 2-high safety coverage. It should, but it does not.

We’re going to start off with a 3-4, so we’ve got 2-high safeties. Perfect, I want to run a Quarters Coverage. In addition, it is very easy to roll one of those safeties down to an underneath zone, replacing a blitzing OLB in the 3-4 look, and create a Cover 3.

To be sure your front and your coverage match, you need to check your force/contain players and your flat players. First of all, they should generally be the same guy. Quarters is one exception because of the complex set of rules involved. Also, you need to be sure that anyone responsible for a deep zone is not going to be responsible for the run. We tell our Corners in Quarters that they have the #1 Receivers in most cases. They NEVER have run responsibilities in Quarters. In Cover 3, your 3 deep zone players should NEVER involved in primary run responsibilities. In Cover 2, your Corners are the flat players and play the contain, while the two deep safeties have only secondary run responsibilities. Another note with that is, Cover 0 and Cover 1 (man and man/free) can be run out of anything, but the guys in man coverage on removed receivers are not going to be run-responsible!

Best Fronts for the Coverage

There are certain coverages that I just like as a better fit with different coverages, regardless of the fact that all rules are satisfied in both cases. It doesn’t mean that I wouldn’t run one coverage with another front, just that I am accepting a situation that may be a little inferior in that one situation, for the sake of mixing it up.

Lets start with Quarters, which I love running with the 4-3 Defense. It fits all of the requirements with a 3-4 Defense, but the natural position of the OLBs at 3×3 off the Line of Scrimmage puts them in an odd spot to spill the play to the Safeties, who have contain. They just seem to be in a natural force/contain spot to me. Not that it can’t be done, of course! But its a preference deal. The Defensive Ends in the 4-3 Defense are in a great spot, tilted on the outside edge of the End Man on the Line of Scrimmage (EMOLS), to spill the play outside to the safeties.

The 4-2-5 and the 3-5-3 are 8-man fronts that can easily be adapted to work with a two-high safety coverage. Just drop your weak side OLB back and you’ve got a 7-man front. Of course, that guy has to be versatile enough to do it, has to roll back before the snap unless he’s an exceptional player, and tips your hand a little bit. So it can be done, I would just rather not. These are natural fits for Cover 3.

One of my favorite things about the 3-4 Defense is the incredible possibilities with Zone Blitzing, so the 3-under, 3-deep coverage concept is my favorite out fo this look. So many parts moving so many places, and all falling together so well.

Teaching Multiple Coverages with Multiple Fronts

The way to combine all of these fronts, and all of these coverages, is to teach your players the concepts, and teach them to communicate. You may not really run all of these, and certainly won’t run some of them often, but your kids can figure out how to do them easily.

Whether you make your calls with names or numbers, tell them why you are using those terms. I like colors. If we’re using ‘Green’ for Cover 3, I tell them “We call it Green because it sounds like ‘Three’. Show them the coverage. Then ask why they think it is called “Three” or “Green”? Someone will get it. You have 3 guys deep. Alright, so pre-snap, as long as we know who the 3 deep guys are (and in almost all cases, the corners are deep so its only communication between the safeties), we’ll have things right. Teach the Linebackers what the Underneath zones are, and how to communicate with eachother there too.

Ask how many “Quarters” are in a dollar – 4. Now they’re getting the concept of Quarters coverage. There may be some more explanation involved in this one as far as rules, but ultimately we need to know that if 4 guys run deep, 4 guys will handle them.

Each coverage has a big effect in one one or two players are doing, but not really everyone. So don’t bother everyone with it. Your Corners are doing something similar in Cover 3 and Quarters – not exact, but similar. They are doing something wildly different in Cover 2! Make sure they’re the experts on Cover 2. The Safeties better be the experts on Quarters, because they’re making all of your checks. And Cover 0 and Cover 1 are like playing flag football – everyone’s got a man, so communicate who has what! Whoever is the expert, they better be doing some talking out there.

You can integrate all of the fronts and all of the coverages you would like to have easily, as long as you can teach the concepts to your players, and get your players to communicate. Don’t try to put everything in, but select what you need to compete with the teams that you play and the teams that you need to beat. Adapt your playbook to your unique situation and set your players up for success!