Coaches, I was out watching a skills football camp for youth players today. I heard some terrible technique being taught on some core principles for line play. These core principles were things like stance and starts. The coach was barking out commands, and not really coaching. And the coaching he was doing was questionable.

With this being a fundamentals camp, I was bewildered. The most important thing for our youth kids to learn is football fundamentals. Three point stances. Two point stances. It doesn’t matter. Simply barking at kids to get out of a stance better won’t fix the problem. You need to correct each kid. Teach them to bend…

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