Kickoff-Catching Drills Helps Develop Sure Hands
KICKOFF RETURNERS can use the following drills to improve their catching technique. Drills both with and without a kicker are featured. Drills With a…
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KICKOFF RETURNERS can use the following drills to improve their catching technique. Drills both with and without a kicker are featured. Drills With a…
THE FOLLOWING IS a 3-step visualization drill that we use in our program. We typically utilize the concepts of “mental imagery” and “performance…
THE “TD DRILL” IS an excellent drill that improves three critical skill areas simultaneously. It’s extremely competitive and our players love it. The…
DURING THE COURSE of a game, players are confronted with different situations that they must immediately recognize and react to. Drills performed dur…
WHILE A ONE-BACK, spread offense can pile up the yards and the points on an opposing defense, its one flaw can be a vulnerability to the blitz. We ha…
OUR PROGRAM PRIDES itself on having solid special teams. Last season our team finished 11th in the NCAA in punt-return average with an 18.33 yards pe…
ONE OF THE MANY challenges facing coaches at all levels of competition today is finding a way to cram as many reps or catches into a compressed time…
THE TRACK-AND-PITCH drill is a great triple-option drill that utilizes a maximum number of quarterbacks and running backs in a triple-option setting,…
DEFENSIVE COACHES want their players to swarm to the ball and make plays. This sounds like a simple enough concept, but in reality, it’s too general…
THE “2-STEP REACTION” Drill is one of our team’s favorite drills and it’s a great drill to help improve the play of your defensive linemen. The drill…
WHEN WORKING WITH the development of our secondary players, we constantly preach and work the concepts of stance, alignment and keys. From there, our…
A COACH MAKES his greatest contribution in the construction, planning and administration of drills. More important than the offensive and defensive s…
THE SWAMPER SPECIAL blocking drill is one of the very best I’ve used in my 24 years of coaching. It combines functional blocking skills, high-level…
OUR TEAM NEEDED to develop a tackling drill that would simulate game situations, involve all phases of defense and create some excitement before a de…
THE HULKING FRAME of the 7-man sled, backed by a ton of steel, can conjure up negative images. As a football player, I was haunted by the sounds of w…
HAVING A SOLID secondary is a luxury for any defense. Knowing that you have swarming defensive backs that are fundamentally sound allows you to be mo…
THIS COMBINATION DRILLING regimen for running backs was originally designed to save practice time. But the end result produced not only much better t…
THIS IS A VERY effective drill that allows all of your players to practice form tackling under the watch of all the coaches at the same time. It’s al…