Last week, I sent out a request for my newsletter subscribers to send in a favorite coaching football defense drill. Check out this one below sent in by Jim (very creative!)
From Jim…
SCOOPING TENNIS BALLS
Here is one of my favorite defense line football drills. It is for shooting gaps, but also helps I guys stay low.
3 cones (or dummies) in a line. Depending on size of players varies to spacing.
2 Tennis balls–1 each placed in gaps.
D Line man lines up head up on center dummy. To shoot the gap we ask our players to be low and get “small”.
If we are asking our player to shoot the gap to the left, he stays low, rotates right shoulder 90, scoops tennis ball with right hand as he proceeds through gap. Reverse to other side.
Its also easy to remind players during game times that we need them to scoop tennis balls, if we see poor technique.
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