American Football Coaching – Break the Double Team

Often times your best defensive lineman will be double-teamed by opposing offensive lineman. [tag]American football coaching[/tag] plans for this action and uses this practice [tag]drill[/tag] to prepare the linemen.

What you need – Two offensive [tag]linemen[/tag] battling against one defensive lineman.

How this drill works – The two OL will prevent the DL from coming through the line on a pass block in this [tag]football[/tag] drill.   It is up to the DL to break the double team using whatever legal movement he can.  

This will be a bit of competition between the two sides, and for each time the OL lets the DL through, they should be penalized.  

Result – This will work on both the linemen’s ability to double team, and it will force the DL to think of innovative ways to crack the double team they are facing.