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Hook and Flat Zone Coverage Drill
Purpose By running a hook on the outside with a slant coming underneath towards the sideline, you are isolating the safety, and forcing him to come up and bite …
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How A One Ball Handoff Drill Also Works for Pre Game Warm-up
This is an excellent football hand-off drill as well as a great pre-game warmup. Try it; you’ll be pleased with the improvements. One Ball Handoff Drill Two Lin…
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How D-Linemen Can Recover From Early Mistakes
As a defensive lineman, getting a good jump on the football can be a huge boost – or bane. If they fly past the defensive lineman and the ball ends up going in …
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How Stretching Has Evolved Along with Football
Over the last couple of decades, a large number of studies have come out that comment on the ineffectiveness of static stretching before engaging in physical ac…
- How Tennis Balls Help Make Drastic Improvements with Receivers This is one of the receiver drills the players and I enjoy doing often. This drill is a fantastic way to improve hand eye coordination and will improve reaction…
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How To Add (At Least!) 10 Yards On Your Deepest Throw
While not every player has the potential arm strength to throw the ball 60-70 yards, any player can put these simple drills to work and see fantastic gains in a…
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How To Get Barry Sanders Balance – Running Back Drills
One thing that all the greatest running backs have in common is the ability to keep a run alive. Extending your run by even just another yard can make all the d…
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How to Be a Football Coach
I received these suggestions on how to be a football coach from Keith and from Joseph. Try the football coaching tip and the drill with your teams.
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How to Block the Most Popular Defensive Lineman Moves
As an offensive lineman you need to be ready guard an arsenal of defensive moves; finesse, power, anything at all – they have to be ready. That’s why in my prac…
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How to Coach Football – D Line Fight Drill
When learning how to coach football, try this drill with your defensive linemen.
Defensive linemen often find themselves down on the ground fighting to get bac…
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How to Effectively Improve Your Defensive Line
During this blog post, I’m going to share some terrific defensive line football drills with you that you’ll surely want to try out with your team. Get-Off Drill…
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How to Get Your Offensive Pass Blockers Ready for Gametime
Today we’re going to talk a little bit about our offensive players and simple stuff you can focus on while coaching football such as the stance, the proper foot…
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How to Improve Your Running Back’s Game
Today, I’m going to go over several youth football drills ideal for the running back. Piggyback Drill In this youth football drill, and every drill we do, we wa…
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How to Make the Read with Speed – Running Back Drills
Speed is a huge asset for any running back – I think that’s something every coach can agree on. But speed in football is more than just running fast, otherwise …
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How to Pass on 3rd and Short
We’ve all seen it before, your receiver runs the route you drew up, quarterback delivers it perfectly, and it’s a catch – well short of the first down line. Fie…
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How to Teach Pursuit and Leverage to Linebackers
When you think of the greatest linebackers you’ve ever seen, it’s not all big hits, interceptions and fumbles that make them so great – although they’re great f…
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Ideas on Coaching Football – Foot Fire Drill
Here are some ideas on coaching football that I use not only with my wide receivers, tight ends but with the entire team. The first drill for wide receivers wil…
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Key Linebacker Skills – Beating The Cut Block
If you want a strong run defense, you need to have strong linebackers. And that doesn’t mean they have to be superstars, flying over the offensive line for a sa…
- Kickoff Return Evaluation Drill When you want to see if a player can put all of the components of good kickoff return together to make the block and protect the ballcarrier, the Kick Off Retur…
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Killer Linebacker Fundamentals and Drills
During this blog post, we’re going to talk about individual youth football drills that we use to develop the fundamentals and principles of play for our linebac…
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Leading the Receiver Drill
Play Type: Quarterback Drill Purpose To develop timing between the quarterback and receiver, teaching the quarterback how to lead the receiver. Setup The qu…
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Learning Seams And Soft Spots Against Zone Coverage
A quarterback’s best friend against the zone defense is be a receiver who understands how to just adjust their roots to find seams or soft spots. That’s why i…
- Line Backer Blitz Walk-through Drill The goal of this drill is to get the LB’s into position as quickly as possible and watching the football. This drill is designed for a 5-3 or a 4-4 defense.
- Line Backer Football Drills – 4 on 4 Drill About twice a week we use these line backer football drills. This is a great drill to see blocking, DL and LB techniques, and tackling. We call it the 4 on 4 …
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Line Backer Football Drills – Pop Ups Drill
If you are in need of some fresh ideas for line backer football drills, try this one. An added plus is that it is fun and the players love it.
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Line Backer Football Drills – Position vs. Position Drill
These are line backer football drills which I have used in several practices. The first one is a position vs. position drill which works with wide receiver vs. …
- Line Backer Football Drills – The Gauntlet One of the line backer football drills drills I love to do is the Gauntlet.
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Linebacker Agility Drill
Purpose To work on speed, agility, and tackling technique Drill Setup Place 4 cones in a zig zag pattern, roughly 5 yards apart from each other. Place a tacklin…
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Linebacker Defense Drill – Tackle Search Drill
Reading the play and reacting to the ball carrier is an excellent skill for good linebackers to learn. This linebacker defense drill will help you learn which …
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Linebacker Drills & Fundamentals Focusing on Escapes
When you run your football practices, chances are that you spend some time focusing on each of your team’s positions. This video is specifically aimed towards y…
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Linebacker Drills for Football
Are you looking for linebacker drills for football? You’ve come to the right place! Try out this idea below and let me know how it goes for you.
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Linebacker Drills for Football – Outside Shoulder Drill
Taking the outside shoulder and making sure a play cannot turn the corner is one way to get a runner to go back inside. If you’re looking for linebacker drills…
- Linebacker Drills – 2 Awesome Tackling Tips Like I’ve said before, learning the tackling fundamentals is paramount to linebacker success. And while in my last post, we focused on the ideal tackle and tac…
- Linebacker Football Drills – Defensive Back and Receiver Drills This is one of the [tag]linebacker football drills[/tag] I use a lot. It is a defensive back/linebacker [tag]football drill[/tag]. Often my [tag]football[/tag…
- Linebacker Football Drills – Offensive Blocking Drill These linebacker football drills are effective in teaching your offensive lineman how to use their hips and hands to to deliver punishing blocks.
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Linebacker Football Drills – THREE HOLE- PICK-A-HOLE
Many coaches email me asking for linebacker football drills. Here is one suggestion that has works well. Give this one a try!
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Football Drills
A football drills library organizes practice work by position and skill so coaches can build purposeful periods instead of random cone drills.
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- Start with a Beginner workflow or Easy plays.
- Add position drills from the drills library.
- Align language with Football Guides.
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