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title: "Football Coaching Guides: QB Reads & Play-Call Terminology"
description: "For coaches: how to teach quarterbacks to read defenses, build play-calling terminology and get your quarterbacks more reps without a full practice."
url: https://www.crucibletech.com/coaches/
---

# For Coaches

Teaching quarterbacks to read defenses, building play-calling terminology, and getting your quarterbacks more reps.

## Guides for Coaches

- [How Football Play-Calling Terminology Works](https://www.crucibletech.com/coaches/play-calling-terminology/)
How football play calls are built: personnel, formation, motion, protection, concept and tags. Word and descriptive systems, and how to install your own terms.

- [How to Teach Quarterbacks to Read Defenses](https://www.crucibletech.com/coaches/teach-quarterbacks-to-read-defenses/)
A coach's sequence for teaching quarterbacks to read coverage: shells, then leverage, then concepts, from the classroom to walkthroughs, with cut-ups and quizzes.

Reading It Is the Hard Part
Knowing what a coverage looks like on paper is step one. Crucible puts you at quarterback against it, rep after rep, until the read is automatic.
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