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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Visualization Drills Offer Real-Time Success
THE FOLLOWING IS a 3-step visualization drill that we use in our program. We typically utilize the concepts of “mental imagery” and “performance…
“TD Drill” Improves Open-Field Blocking, Ball-Carrier Techniques & Tackling In The Red Zone
THE “TD DRILL” IS an excellent drill that improves three critical skill areas simultaneously. It’s extremely competitive and our players love it. The…
Don’t Begin Another Season Without Re-Evaluating The Core Principles Of Your Drills
DURING THE COURSE of a game, players are confronted with different situations that they must immediately recognize and react to. Drills performed dur…
Drill Your Quarterback To Beat The Blitz
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…
“Miami University Punt Return” Comes Up Big
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…
Wide Receiver Drills Offer “Lots Of Catches In Little Time”
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…
“Track-And-Pitch Drill” Reinforces Essential Triple-Option Mesh-And-Pitch Principles
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,…
Stressing The “ABCs” Of Defensive Drills Teaches Critical Fundamentals
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…
“2-Step Reaction Drill” Reinforces Proper Defensive Line Pursuit Angles And Pass
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…
“Hammer” Drill Teaches DBs To Nail Receivers
WHEN WORKING WITH the development of our secondary players, we constantly preach and work the concepts of stance, alignment and keys. From there, our…
Critical Tips For Making Your Drills More Effective, Efficient
A COACH MAKES his greatest contribution in the construction, planning and administration of drills. More important than the offensive and defensive s…
“Swamper Special” Blocking, Conditioning Drill Works Players Hard
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…
Drill Your Players To Become Better Tacklers
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…
7-Man Sled Drills Are Hard Work, Yet Fun For Players
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…
Defensive Back Drills Create A Swarming Secondary
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…
Combination Drills Create Better All-Around Running Backs
THIS COMBINATION DRILLING regimen for running backs was originally designed to save practice time. But the end result produced not only much better t…
Six-Point Tackle Drill Teaches Correct Form
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…