Workbooks
Where to start with the workbooks
It is Sunday night in week four. You have a scouting report half done, a call sheet you have not touched, and a practice plan you are going to write at six in the morning in the parking lot. Every coach has been there. The problem usually is not effort, it is that the week has no shape, so every week gets rebuilt from scratch.
That is what these workbooks are for. Each one walks a specific job through the decisions that should already be made before the season starts, so that in September you are filling in a structure instead of inventing one.
Pick the one that matches the job you actually hold. If you are the head coach, the Head Coach Workbook covers program structure, staff responsibilities and the calls you want settled before the situation shows up, and the In-Season Weekly Planner is the week-to-week companion. If you call the offense, the Offensive Coordinator Workbook handles install order, game planning and building a call sheet, and the Weekly Planner keeps the in-season week on rails. On defense, the Defensive Coordinator Workbook does the same job, with the Game Week Planner as the weekly piece.
For position coaches there are separate workbooks for offensive line, defensive line and quarterbacks, written so a first-year assistant can pick one up and know what to teach.
Most of these come three ways: digital only, physical only, or physical and digital together. The combination versions include an editable PowerPoint, so you can change the language to match what you already call things. If you are the only one using it, digital is fine. If you are handing pieces to a staff, get the physical.
If you are staffing up a whole side of the ball, the Offensive Staff Bundle and the Workbook Bundle put the books together in one purchase.
One honest note. A workbook does not organize your program, you do. What it does is make sure you answer the hard questions in June instead of on the Tuesday of week seven when you are already behind.
What to do right now
Pick the workbook for the job you actually hold, work through it before your first install day, and put your answers somewhere your staff can see them.
The Offensive Coordinator Workbook is a complete offensive planning and organization system designed for football coaches who want to install, plan, and call offense with clarity and confidence.
This product includes both a physical workbook AND a full digital version, giving coaches maximum flexibility in how they plan, teach, and prepare each week.
✔️ Physical workbook for hands-on planning
✔️ Digital version for easy access and updates
✔️ Editable PowerPoint (PPT) so you can customize it to your offense
Whether you coach youth, middle school, or high school football, this workbook helps you organize your offensive system and become a more efficient playcaller.
Why Offensive Coordinators Need a Planning System
Great offensive coordinators don’t just call plays — they:
Build offensive structure
Organize installs
Plan weekly emphasis
Prepare answers before game day
Without a system, offensive planning becomes reactive.
The Offensive Coordinator Workbook gives you a repeatable process for:
✔️ Weekly offensive planning
✔️ Practice organization
✔️ Game-plan development
✔️ Play sequencing
✔️ Staff communication
This workbook turns ideas into executable plans.
What’s Included in the Offensive Coordinator Workbook
📘 Physical Workbook
A printed workbook designed for:
Writing, mapping, and organizing ideas
Weekly offensive planning
Game-week preparation
Situational football organization
Perfect for coaches who like hands-on planning.
💻 Digital Version (Editable PPT)
The digital edition includes an editable PowerPoint (PPT) that allows you to:
✔️ Customize terminology to your offense
✔️ Adjust structure to fit your system
✔️ Edit installs, practice plans, and call sheets
✔️ Share with staff digitally
✔️ Reuse year after year
This makes the workbook offense-agnostic — it works for any offensive system.
Topics Covered in the Workbook
The Offensive Coordinator Workbook walks you through:
Offensive philosophy and identity
Personnel grouping and strengths
Install progression and sequencing
Weekly practice planning
Game planning and scripting
Situational football organization
Call sheet structure
In-game adjustments and answers
This is not a playbook — it’s a playcaller’s planning tool.
Who This Workbook Is For
Offensive Coordinators
Head Coaches who call offense
Assistant coaches preparing to be OCs
Youth, middle school, and high school programs
Coaches who want organization without complexity
If you want to install faster, communicate better, and call plays with confidence, this workbook was built for you.
Why Coaches Choose This Version
✔️ Includes physical + digital formats
✔️ Editable PowerPoint allows full customization
✔️ Helps offensive coordinators stay organized weekly
✔️ Improves staff communication
✔️ Reduces game-week stress
✔️ Built by a coach, for coaches
Great offenses are planned — not improvised.
Instant Access — Physical + Digital
👉 Offensive Coordinator Workbook (Physical & Digital)
✔️ Printed workbook shipped to you
✔️ Digital download included
✔️ Editable PPT files for customization
10 week planner for every offensive coordinator!
Each section covers
Opponent Prep
Practice Schedule
Game Script
And more…
The Quarterback Coach Workbook is the perfect resource for any quarterback coach looking for a clear roadmap to develop quarterbacks at a high level.
Designed to be written in and used throughout the year, this workbook helps QB coaches prepare during the offseason and stay organized during the season. It serves as a planning, teaching, and evaluation tool for quarterback development — not just a reading resource.
Whether you coach youth, middle school, or high school football, this workbook gives you a systematic approach to building confident, prepared quarterbacks.
Why the Quarterback Position Requires a System
The quarterback position is widely considered the most important and most demanding position in football.
Quarterbacks must master:
Footwork and throwing mechanics
Defensive recognition
Play concepts and structure
Decision-making under pressure
Communication and leadership
Because of this, quarterback coaching requires intentional planning and structure, not just drills.
The Quarterback Coach Workbook was created to help QB coaches manage both the physical and mental demands of the position with clarity and purpose.
Built for Any Offense, Any Level
This workbook is offense-agnostic, meaning it works for:
Spread offenses
Gun-T / Wing-T systems
Pro-style offenses
RPO-based systems
Youth through high school football
The goal was to create a QB coaching workbook that fits every system, allowing coaches to customize teaching points, drills, and concepts to match their offense.
What You’ll Work Through in the Quarterback Coach Workbook
This workbook walks QB coaches through every major responsibility of the position.
📊 Building a Quarterback Depth Chart
Who plays where?
How do you evaluate quarterbacks fairly?
What traits matter most in your system?
🧠 Teaching in the Classroom
What must QBs understand before practice?
How do you introduce concepts and reads?
How do you prepare quarterbacks mentally?
🏈 Teaching Plays & Constructing Concepts
How are quarterbacks taught to attack defenses?
Do they understand why plays are called?
How do concepts connect within your offense?
🏃♂️ Designing Quarterback Drills for Practice
What drills matter most?
Key coaching points for each drill
Matching drills to your offensive system
Teaching fundamentals that translate to games
🎯 Game Management & In-Game Adjustments
How do you communicate with the quarterback during games?
Who talks to the QB and when?
How do you handle adjustments and adversity?
📋 Breaking Down an Opponent
What defensive tendencies matter most to the QB?
How do you communicate scouting information clearly?
How do you adjust quarterback reads week to week?
What This Workbook Helps You Build
By the end of this workbook, QB coaches will have:
✔️ A clear quarterback evaluation system
✔️ Organized teaching progressions
✔️ Practice drills that fit their offense
✔️ A plan for game-day communication
✔️ A process for opponent breakdown
✔️ A strong foundation for quarterback success
This workbook helps quarterbacks play faster, think clearer, and perform with confidence.
Who This Quarterback Workbook Is For
Quarterback coaches
Offensive coordinators
Head coaches who coach the QB position
Youth, middle school, and high school programs
Coaches looking for structure instead of guesswork
If you want a repeatable system for quarterback development, this workbook was built for you.
The perfect workbook for an offensive line coach. This material is made to be written in and used as a coach prepares to be an offensive line coach.
One of the most under appreciated positions to coach in all of sports, is the offensive line. It is difficult and hard to understand. Very few people actually notice how well it is or isn’t coached. And often a coach must convince players to be unselfish.
On top of all of this, they must work with players that are limited athletically and master the skills needed to fit in the offensive structure that was decided by the offensive coordinator.
The goal of this workbook is for a coach to work through all the issues they will face. From personnel, to blocking adjustments, to practice time and drills, and more…
Use it to help prepare for the upcoming season. The goal for us was to create a workbook that would work for offensive line coaches at every level and running every type of offense.
Eight chapters with a new section covering all areas an offensive line coach must be prepared.
In this book, you will work through:
How to fit personnel.
Who goes where and how do you build depth?
How to choose splits.
How will you use splits to help execute your blocking schemes? Do you want a 3pt or 2pt stance?
How to build plays and construct concepts.
What do you want to run? Adjustments against multiple looks? How will you adapt? What is your IF-THEN scenarios that need to be thought out?
How to design drills for practice.
What drills are most important? Key coaching points? What drills fit your system?
How to organize your adjustment strategy for a game.
How will you make adjustments during the game? Do you have a system set in place? Who makes the calls at the line?
How to break down an opponent.
What do you look for? How do you adjust to your opponent?
By the end of this workbook, you’ll have laid an extremely solid foundation for your offensive line’s success.
Format: a printed workbook of more than 200 pages, plus a digital editable version that works in PowerPoint, Google Slides and Pro Quick Draw.
Defense has gotten harder to teach. Offenses change faster than they used to, you get less practice time than you used to, and the communication has to be right or a kid takes the wrong fit and it is six points. Most defensive coordinators are not short on knowledge. They are short on a place to put it.
This is that place, on paper. You work through your defensive structure, your install order, your practice plan and your call sheet before the season starts, so that in October you are filling in a framework instead of rebuilding one every Sunday night.
The digital version matters more than it sounds. It is editable, so you change the language to match what you already call things rather than teaching your kids somebody else's terms.
Who it is for: defensive coordinators at youth, middle school and high school, and head coaches who call their own defense.
What it is not: it is not a scheme book. It will not teach you a front or a coverage. It organizes whatever you already run.
What to do next
- The in-season weekly companion: Defensive Coordinator Game Week Planner
- A scheme to put in it: 34 Fit and Swarm Defensive Overview Book
- For your line coach: Defensive Line Coach Workbook
The Defensive Coordinator Workbook Combo is a complete curriculum and planning system for defensive coordinators who want to install, organize, and call defense with clarity and confidence.
This combo pack brings together multiple defensive workbooks designed to help coaches move beyond just X’s and O’s and build a repeatable system for defensive preparation, practice organization, and game-day decision making.
Whether you coach youth, middle school, or high school football, this defensive coordinator bundle gives you the structure needed to prepare your defense the right way — before the season and every week during it.
Why Defensive Coordinators Need a System
Defensive football is becoming harder to teach every year.
Rules favor the offense.
Formations and tempo keep increasing.
Players have limited practice time.
Because of that, defensive coordinators must be:
• Organized
• Intentional
• Efficient
• Clear in communication
The Defensive Coordinator Workbook Combo was built to give DCs a roadmap — not just ideas — for how to plan, install, and manage a defense.
This is about HOW to coach defense, not just what to call.
What’s Included in the Defensive Coordinator Workbook Combo
This bundle combines multiple defensive coaching workbooks into one complete defensive planning system, covering:
🛡️ Defensive Philosophy & Structure
Defensive identity and core principles
How to build a system players understand
Terminology and communication clarity
📋 Defensive Installation Planning
Install order and progression
Teaching defense in stages
Simplifying concepts for faster execution
🏃♂️ Practice Organization for Defense
Defensive practice structure
Drill organization that translates to games
Emphasis planning by week
Maximizing reps with limited time
📊 Game Planning & Play Calling
Defensive call sheet organization
Situational football planning
Pressure and coverage planning
In-game adjustment structure
🧠 Weekly & Seasonal Preparation
Weekend film and correction process
Weekly defensive planning templates
Staff communication and responsibilities
Self-scouting and evaluation
This combo ensures nothing gets overlooked in defensive preparation.
How Coaches Use This Workbook Combo
✔️ Offseason defensive planning
✔️ Preseason install organization
✔️ In-season weekly preparation
✔️ Staff meetings and alignment
✔️ Practice efficiency improvement
✔️ Game-day confidence
Instead of reacting each week, defensive coordinators attack the week with a plan.
Who This Defensive Coordinator Combo Is For
Defensive Coordinators
Head Coaches overseeing the defense
Assistant coaches preparing for DC roles
Youth, middle school, and high school staffs
Coaches who want clarity instead of chaos
If you want a defense that plays fast, communicates clearly, and adjusts effectively, this system helps you build it.
Why Coaches Choose the Defensive Coordinator Workbook Combo
✔️ Built specifically for defensive coordinators
✔️ Focuses on organization, not overload
✔️ Improves practice efficiency
✔️ Helps with play calling and in-game adjustments
✔️ Works with any defensive system
✔️ Designed by a coach, for coaches
Great defenses aren’t just aggressive — they’re prepared.
When building your defensive line, you must work through the different scenarios that opposing offenses will put you through. This workbook will give you a variety of exercises to complete to ensure that you’ve addressed all the major points that you need to think about to put your team in the best position to defend the offenses that you will see.
Here’s a few topics you’ll work through and the questions you’ll answer:
Personnel - Who are the starters for your defense? Do you have lots of depth or are you thin in certain positions? Is your next best defensive end the backup linebacker? Will you build in personnel packages?
Stunts and Fronts - What are the main fronts that you want your defense in against the offenses you will see each Friday night? What are your go to stunts that you will use when you need pressure? What coverages are you going to live in this season?
Packaged Calls - Will you package blitzes and the coverages with simple call? How will you communicate to the defense?
Game Organization - How will you organize your coaches? How do adjustments get made?
Practice Plans - How much time do you want to spend on individual defensive drills? When do you want the box to come together to work against the run? How much time should the linebackers and defensive backs work coverages together?
Practice Drills – What drills are most important? Key coaching points? What drills should your assistant coaches emphasize?
Opponent Breakdown - While this could be an entire book, this workbook will provide a few templates to use as you breakdown your opponents.
Think of this workbook as a tool to help think through all the situations your defense will encounter this season and in future seasons. The goal is to be as prepared as possible.
And while a coach can never predict the future with 100% certainty, we can be as prepared as possible. The goal of this workbook is to have a finished product at the end of the workbook.
A head football coach is a daunting role. There are so many moving parts, that it can be very difficult to even know what must get done! Most coaches got this job because they had done a good job as an assistant coach, and the irony is that many of those skills will not be what are needed as the head coach.
This workbook is meant for you to go through many of the issues a head coach must work through. From getting a job, to the first few days on the job, all the way to creating a system for the team. This will hopefully serve as a guide for any coach wishing to continue to improve as a head coach, or for all those coaches that wish to become one!
Each section is built around a certain topic or question that you need to work through prior to the season so you and your staff can be as prepared as possible. .
Downloads into PPT or Google Slides.
The Head Coach Planner + Head Coach Weekly Planner Combo is a complete organizational system for football head coaches who want clarity, structure, and control over their program — without wasting time.
This combo brings together:
✔️ The long-term vision and program structure from the Head Coach Planner
✔️ The day-to-day and week-to-week execution of the Head Coach Weekly Planner
Together, they give you a full-season planning curriculum that helps head coaches manage practice, staff, game prep, communication, and culture at a high level.
🏈 Why Head Coaches Need a System — Not Just a Planner
Head coaches don’t lose games because they don’t care.
They lose efficiency because they’re pulled in too many directions.
The best programs run on:
• Clear priorities
• Weekly structure
• Intentional planning
• Consistent communication
This planner combo was built to help head coaches think clearly, plan intentionally, and lead confidently — from the offseason through the final game.
📒 What’s Included in the Head Coach Planner
The Head Coach Planner focuses on the big picture — helping you build and manage your entire football program.
Inside you’ll organize:
Program vision and standards
Core values and culture expectations
Staff roles and responsibilities
Practice philosophy and structure
Player development priorities
Offseason, preseason, and in-season planning
Program evaluation and reflection
This planner helps you design the program you want, not just survive the season.
📆 What’s Included in the Head Coach Weekly Planner
The Head Coach Weekly Planner bridges vision to execution by breaking the season into manageable weekly plans.
Each week helps you organize:
Practice schedules and emphasis
Game-week priorities
Staff communication points
Player accountability and development
Situational football focus
Game-day responsibilities
Weekly evaluation and adjustments
Instead of reacting to the week, you attack it with a plan.
🧠 How Coaches Use This Combo
✔️ Offseason program planning
✔️ In-season weekly organization
✔️ Staff meetings and accountability
✔️ Practice planning and efficiency
✔️ Game-week preparation
✔️ Post-game reflection and correction
This combo allows head coaches to spend less time scrambling and more time leading.
🎯 Who This Planner Combo Is For
Head football coaches
Coordinators preparing to become head coaches
Youth, middle school, and high school programs
Coaches who want organization without micromanaging
Programs that value structure, clarity, and consistency
If you’ve ever felt like you were always behind instead of ahead, this system was built for you.
📈 Why This Combo Works
✔️ Combines long-term planning + weekly execution
✔️ Keeps head coaches focused on what matters most
✔️ Improves communication with staff and players
✔️ Creates consistency across the entire program
✔️ Helps coaches lead with intention — not stress
Great programs don’t happen by accident.
They are planned, organized, and led.
Get the HC, DC and OC workbooks.
Work to design your program from the ground up.
This 3 pack bundle also will include all digital versions of the books.
Digital Copy of the offensive coordinator workbook.
It is set at 8.5 x 11 in PPT and can be manipulated and adjusted to fit your offense.
Multiple Templates (can be used with PQD as well) that walk through the process of building your offense.
The Offensive Coordinator Combo Pack is a comprehensive offensive coaching resource designed for offensive coordinators, playcallers, and head coaches who want a complete system for offensive game planning, play installation, practice organization, and weekly offensive strategy.
This combo pack brings together multiple offensive coaching tools into one powerful bundle that helps you:
✔️ Organize your offensive playbook
✔️ Improve playcalling efficiency
✔️ Install your offense with clarity
✔️ Build a consistent game-week plan
✔️ Coach with confidence and purpose
Whether you coach at the youth, middle school, or high school level, this OC combo pack gives you everything you need as an offensive coordinator to prepare your offense for success.
🏈 What’s Included in the Offensive Coordinator Combo Pack
The Offensive Coordinator Combo Pack combines essential offensive coaching guides and planners into one complete system. This pack includes:
📌 Offensive Playbook Guide
A detailed offensive system resource covering:
Core run and pass concepts
Route concepts, spacing, and leverage
RPO reads and progression installs
Personnel grouping and motion strategy
This guide helps you build and grow your offensive playbook from the ground up.
🗓️ Offensive Weekly Planning Tools
Tools to help you organize your offensive priorities each week, including:
Practice install ladders
Weekly offensive emphasis sheets
Game planning templates
Staff communication plans
Situational call sheets
These planning tools make it easy to take your offensive system from install to execution.
📊 Game Planning & Strategy Worksheets
Organize your offensive philosophy with:
Scripted plays by situation
Scouting and opponent breakdowns
Offensive tendencies and matchups
First-and-goal to red-zone strategy
Pressure anticipation and protection calls
Perfect for offensive coordinators managing calls, scripts, and adjustments.
🧠 Why Offensive Coordinators Need This Pack
Offensive football is about preparation, clarity, and execution. The best offensive coordinators build their success through organization, process, and repeatable systems — not chaos.
This combo pack gives you:
✔️ Play installation guidance
✔️ Offensive system structures
✔️ Weekly offensive planning tools
✔️ Game-day strategy sheets
✔️ Call sequencing and schematic clarity
Coaches report that using structured offensive tools helps them spend less time scrambling and more time coaching with purpose.
🎯 Who This Offensive Coordinator Toolkit Is For
✔️ Offensive Coordinators
✔ Playcallers
✔ Head Coaches who call offense
✔ Assistant coaches running offense
✔ Coaches looking to streamline offensive installs
✔ Teams emphasizing organized practice and execution
Whether you’re building your first offense or refining an existing system, this OC Combo Pack helps you install faster, call smarter, and execute with confidence.
📈 Benefits You’ll Get
📍 Clear offensive philosophy and terminology
📍 Practice planning that builds game speed execution
📍 Weekly offensive priorities and checklists
📍 Game planning templates to stay ahead of defenses
📍 Offensive system continuity across your staff
Great offenses aren’t created in the moment — they’re built with systems, planning, and repetition.
The perfect workbook for any quarterback coach looking for a roadmap to help his quarterback's succeed at the highest level. This material is made to be written in and used as a coach prepares for the upcoming season as well as during the season.
The quarterback position is one of the most time intensive positions to teach. Often deemed the most important position on the field, the quarterback has to master not only the physical aspects of the job, but the mental ones as well.
Use this workbook to help prepare for the upcoming season. The goal for us was to create a workbook that would work for quarterback coaches at every level and running every type of offense.
In this book, you will work through:
Building a depth chart.
Who goes where and how do I evaluate?
Teaching in the classroom.
What do I need to teach the QBs before we get out on the practice field?
How to teach plays and construct concepts.
How are we teaching our QBs to attack the defense? Do they understand why we call
certain plays?
How to design drills for practice.
What drills are most important? Key coaching points? What drills fit your system?
How to manage a game.
How will you make adjustments during the game? Do you have a system set in place?
Who talks to the QB?
How to break down an opponent.
What do you look for? How do you adjust to your opponent? How do you communicate this to your QB.
By the end of this workbook, you’ll have laid an extremely solid foundation for each of
your quarterback’s success.
The perfect workbook for an offensive line coach. This material is made to be written in and used as a coach prepares to be an offensive line coach.
One of the most under appreciated positions to coach in all of sports, is the offensive line. It is difficult and hard to understand. Very few people actually notice how well it is or isn’t coached. And often a coach must convince players to be unselfish.
On top of all of this, they must work with players that are limited athletically and master the skills needed to fit in the offensive structure that was decided by the offensive coordinator.
The goal of this workbook is for a coach to work through all the issues they will face. From personnel, to blocking adjustments, to practice time and drills, and more…
Use it to help prepare for the upcoming season. The goal for us was to create a workbook that would work for offensive line coaches at every level and running every type of offense.
Eight chapters with a new section covering all areas an offensive line coach must be prepared.
In this book, you will work through:
How to fit personnel.
Who goes where and how do you build depth?
How to choose splits.
How will you use splits to help execute your blocking schemes? Do you want a 3pt or 2pt stance?
How to build plays and construct concepts.
What do you want to run? Adjustments against multiple looks? How will you adapt? What is your IF-THEN scenarios that need to be thought out?
How to design drills for practice.
What drills are most important? Key coaching points? What drills fit your system?
How to organize your adjustment strategy for a game.
How will you make adjustments during the game? Do you have a system set in place? Who makes the calls at the line?
How to break down an opponent.
What do you look for? How do you adjust to your opponent?
By the end of this workbook, you’ll have laid an extremely solid foundation for your offensive line’s success.
Over 30 exercises and multiple examples in this defensive coordinator manual.
Downloads to PPT or compatible with Google Slides, Pro Quick Draw and Go Army Edge.
Build your defense.
Defensive Coordinator Planner — Weekly Football Defense Organizer & Game Planning Tool
The Defensive Coordinator Planner is a purpose-built weekly football defensive planning system designed to help defensive coordinators stay organized, prepared, and in control throughout the season.
Whether you coach at the youth, middle school, or high school level, this planner gives you a step-by-step process to organize your weekly defensive work, map out priorities, and execute your defensive game plan with clarity and confidence.
Why Defensive Coordinators Need a Planner
Defensive coordinators wear many hats:
Practice planning
Game planning
Staff coordination
Situational call sheets
Player communication
Weekly corrections
Without a system to organize all these tasks, important details easily get missed.
The Defensive Coordinator Planner gives you a central place to:
✔️ Plan weekly defensive practices
✔️ Prepare scout reports
✔️ Organize game-week priorities
✔️ Coordinate staff responsibilities
✔️ Track adjustments and notes
This isn’t just a notebook — it’s a team defense planning tool that helps you think ahead and stay ahead.
What’s Inside the Defensive Coordinator Planner
Designed for easy use, this planner helps you structure your defensive week with sections for:
📆 Weekly Defensive Overview
Weekly goals and emphasis
Priority areas for your defense
Focus points for practice and game week
🧠 Practice Planning & Schedule
Defensive practice organization
Drill objectives and progression
Situational defense planning
📊 Opponent Scouting Breakdowns
Opponent personnel and tendencies
Offensive strengths and defensive priorities
Special defensive game planning notes
👥 Staff Communication & Meetings
Who you need to meet with each week
Staff assignment tracking
Notes for communication and delegation
🏈 Game Day Call Sheets
Defensive call sheets
Situational call priorities
Game adjustments and notes
This planner provides all the tools you need to stay organized and efficient throughout the season.
Who This Planner Is For
✔️ Defensive coordinators
✔ Head coaches who call defense
✔ Assistant coaches preparing for DC roles
✔ Football staffs at the youth, middle school, and high school level
✔ Coaches who want a better planning process and more confidence each week
If you’ve ever felt like defensive planning was disjointed or chaotic, this planner helps you streamline your defensive week with purpose.
Why Coaches Choose the Defensive Coordinator Planner
✔️ Designed specifically for football defensive planning
✔️ Improves weekly practice and game prep organization
✔️ Helps coordinate staff and communicate with players
✔️ Provides a repeatable weekly format
✔️ Keeps priorities clear throughout the season
A strong defense starts with strong preparation and organization.
When building your defensive line, you must work through the different scenarios that opposing offenses will put you through. This workbook will give you a variety of exercises to complete to ensure that you’ve addressed all the major points that you need to think about to put your team in the best position to defend the offenses that you will see.
Here’s a few topics you’ll work through and the questions you’ll answer:
Personnel - Who are the starters for your defense? Do you have lots of depth or are you thin in certain positions? Is your next best defensive end the backup linebacker? Will you build in personnel packages?
Stunts and Fronts - What are the main fronts that you want your defense in against the offenses you will see each Friday night? What are your go to stunts that you will use when you need pressure? What coverages are you going to live in this season?
Packaged Calls - Will you package blitzes and the coverages with simple call? How will you communicate to the defense?
Game Organization - How will you organize your coaches? How do adjustments get made?
Practice Plans - How much time do you want to spend on individual defensive drills? When do you want the box to come together to work against the run? How much time should the linebackers and defensive backs work coverages together?
Practice Drills – What drills are most important? Key coaching points? What drills should your assistant coaches emphasize?
Opponent Breakdown - While this could be an entire book, this workbook will provide a few templates to use as you breakdown your opponents.
Think of this workbook as a tool to help think through all the situations your defense will encounter this season and in future seasons. The goal is to be as prepared as possible.
And while a coach can never predict the future with 100% certainty, we can be as prepared as possible. The goal of this workbook is to have a finished product at the end of the workbook.
Head Football Coach Workbook — A Complete Guide to Leading, Organizing, and Building a Program
Becoming a head football coach is one of the most demanding roles in sports. The job comes with countless moving parts — staff management, practice organization, game planning, player development, communication, and leadership — and it’s easy to feel overwhelmed, especially in the first few seasons.
Most head coaches earn the position because they were excellent assistant coaches. The challenge?
Many of the skills that make a great assistant are not the same skills required to succeed as a head football coach.
The Head Football Coach Workbook was created to help coaches navigate that transition and build a clear, organized, and effective leadership system.
What This Head Coach Workbook Is Designed to Do
This workbook is a step-by-step leadership and organization guide for:
New head football coaches
Aspiring head coaches
Veteran head coaches looking to improve structure and efficiency
It walks you through every major phase of the head coaching role — from getting the job, to the first days on campus, to building systems that last.
This is not a book you simply read.
It’s a workbook designed for reflection, planning, and action.
What’s Inside the Head Coach Workbook
Each section is built around a specific topic or leadership question that every head coach must answer before the season begins.
The goal is to ensure that:
✔️ You are prepared
✔️ Your staff is aligned
✔️ Your program has structure
✔️ Decisions are intentional, not reactive
Topics include:
Preparing for and landing a head coaching job
Leading staff meetings and defining roles
Establishing program standards and culture
Organizing practice and weekly schedules
Building systems that support long-term success
Managing the many responsibilities of a head football coach
Built for Real Head Coaches
With 12 chapters and 184 pages, this is an in-depth head coaching workbook designed to challenge you to think critically about your role.
You’ll work through:
Leadership decisions
Organizational systems
Program philosophy
Communication strategies
Staff and player management
This workbook helps head coaches slow the game down, make better decisions, and lead with clarity.
Who This Workbook Is For
Head football coaches at any level
Assistant coaches preparing to become head coaches
Youth, middle school, and high school programs
Coaches who want structure instead of stress
Leaders who want to build sustainable programs
Whether you’re in year one or year ten, this workbook helps you evaluate, organize, and improve how you lead your program.
Why This Head Coach Workbook Matters
✔️ Designed specifically for head football coaches
✔️ Helps transition from assistant coach to program leader
✔️ Focuses on systems, structure, and preparation
✔️ Encourages proactive planning instead of reactive decisions
✔️ Supports long-term program success
Great head coaches aren’t just good play callers — they’re great organizers, leaders, and planners.
Head Coach Weekly Planner — Football Practice, Game-Week & Staff Organization Tool
One of the most important things a head football coach can do to set their program up for success is weekly preparation.
The Head Coach Weekly Planner is a purpose-built football coaching planner designed to give head coaches a central place to organize every part of the week — from staff meetings to practice plans to game-day preparation.
This isn’t a generic notebook.
It’s a weekly planning system built specifically for head football coaches.
Why Weekly Planning Matters for Head Coaches
Every week during the season comes with:
Practice planning
Staff communication
Player accountability
Game preparation
Equipment and logistics
Time management
Without a system, important details get missed.
The Head Coach Weekly Planner helps you slow the week down, organize your priorities, and ensure that nothing important slips through the cracks.
What’s Inside the Head Coach Weekly Planner
Each week is laid out specifically for the head football coach, helping you plan intentionally and lead with clarity.
The planner includes dedicated sections for:
📅 Weekly Overview, Schedule & Goals
Identify weekly priorities
Set clear goals for players and staff
Map out the flow of the week
👥 Staff & Player Meetings
Track who you need to meet with each week
Ensure communication stays consistent
Keep everyone aligned with the weekly plan
🎒 Game-Week & Travel Checklists
Packing and equipment checklists
Game-day preparation reminders
Eliminate last-minute scrambling
🗓️ Weekend & Practice Time Mapping
Plan weekend responsibilities
Organize practice times and emphasis
Manage time efficiently
🏈 Practice Planning & Evaluation
Work through daily practices
Emphasis areas and focus points
Notes for adjustments and follow-ups
This planner turns chaos into clarity — week after week.
Who This Weekly Planner Is For
Head football coaches
Coordinators preparing for head coaching roles
Youth, middle school, and high school programs
Coaches who want organization without micromanaging
Programs focused on efficiency and consistency
Whether you’re a first-year head coach or a veteran, this planner helps you stay organized, prepared, and intentional.
Why Coaches Use the Head Coach Weekly Planner
✔️ Built specifically for football head coaches
✔️ Helps organize weekly practice and game prep
✔️ Improves staff communication and accountability
✔️ Keeps priorities clear throughout the season
✔️ Reduces stress and last-minute decisions
Great programs don’t happen by accident —
they happen through consistent weekly preparation.
The Special Teams Coordinator Workbook is a practical coaching resource designed for football coaches responsible for special teams at any level — youth, middle school, or high school.
Special teams play a huge role in winning football games, yet they are often the most under-taught and under-planned phase of the game. Many coaches are assigned special teams responsibilities late in the offseason and are expected to “figure it out” quickly — especially when working with kickers, punters, holders, and return units.
This workbook exists to change that.
Purpose of the Special Teams Workbook
The goal of this workbook is not just to give you plays or diagrams — it is designed to help coaches think through, organize, and plan everything required to run great special teams.
It provides:
Structure for planning
Prompts to guide decision-making
Exercises that ensure nothing is overlooked
Whether you are a first-time special teams coordinator or a veteran coach looking to improve efficiency, this workbook helps you prepare before the season and stay organized throughout the year.
Why Special Teams Organization Matters
Special teams units are constantly changing:
Personnel shifts weekly
Depth charts rotate
Injuries and availability change
Scouting is often overlooked
Without a system, special teams preparation becomes reactive.
This workbook gives you a repeatable process to organize:
✔️ Personnel
✔️ Drills
✔️ Alignments
✔️ Scouting
✔️ Weekly preparation
Prepared special teams create field position, momentum, and hidden yardage every game.
What You’ll Work Through in This Workbook
The Special Teams Coordinator Workbook includes a variety of guided exercises to help you prepare every unit you must coach each week.
👥 Personnel Planning
Who can you use?
Who must you protect or hide?
How to manage constant roster movement
Planning depth for every special teams unit
While offensive and defensive depth charts may stay consistent, special teams depth charts change constantly — this section helps you stay ahead of it.
🏃♂️ Drills That Translate
Simple, effective special teams drills
Identifying athletes who can help each unit
Skill-specific drills for kickers, returners, and coverage units
Great special teams units win with fundamentals and simplicity, not complexity.
🧩 Diagramming Each Special Teams Unit
Punt, kickoff, kick return, punt return, PAT/FG
Example structures provided
Space to adapt alignments to your personnel
There is no one “right way” to run special teams — this section helps you design what fits your team best.
🎯 Opponent Scouting
Tracking kicks and returns
Identifying opponent tendencies
Finding weaknesses and opportunities
Communicating scouting information to players
Very few teams truly scout special teams — doing so gives you a chance to create big plays every week.
Who This Special Teams Workbook Is For
Special teams coordinators
Head coaches overseeing special teams
Position coaches assigned special teams duties
Youth, middle school, and high school football staffs
Coaches preparing for future coordinator roles
If you’ve ever been handed special teams responsibility late in the offseason, this workbook helps you be prepared when the moment comes.
Why Coaches Use This Special Teams Workbook
✔️ Designed specifically for football special teams coordinators
✔️ Focuses on planning, organization, and preparation
✔️ Helps manage weekly personnel changes
✔️ Encourages effective scouting and communication
✔️ Builds confidence in a phase of the game that often decides outcomes
Special teams aren’t an afterthought — they’re a competitive advantage.