The Island
Both players are on their back about three feet apart. It works on quickness off of the ground, finding the football and making the tackle. The defender is not off of the island, until he makes five consecutive stops without giving up a touchdown.

It’s a fun  drill, and it shows what a player will do when he is fatigued. One of our players made 15 straight stops without giving up a touchdown. Every time we do this drill, we get a crowd of about 20 or thirty people rooting the boys on.

I think you’ll love seeing how instincts take over for a player who is timid about tackling.

Angle Tackling Drill
I line up 5 players on the 10 yard line and the running back is in the end zone. The running backs goal is to score by running as fast as possible down the sideline he starts at my whistle. The players on the ten yard line have to try to tackle the running back by using the correct angle. The tacklers go one at a time starting with the closest one to the sidelines were the running back is running.

This drill I learned years ago while playing line backer in high school football. This drill improves their angle tackling by 95%. If the running back scores a touchdown then the tacklers run 2 laps around the football field. If the running back gets tackled then he runs 2 laps, it makes it more challenging.

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During team time you can teach fundamentals and techniques, but this way you will have seen the opponents offense, defense and special teams several hundred times before game time.  Also, you will be practicing exactly as you play–11 on 11.

During pre-season, continually drill and execute techniques until the players are sick of it.  That way, when the actual football season begins, you’ll have focused on technique and drills about as much as your opponent come game time.

Your advantage is that you will have seen and practiced against your opponent several hundred more times than your opponent will have practiced against your offense, defense and ST.

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Simply have two players stand facing each other about 8 yards apart.  They throw the football to each other aiming for 5 spots.  The first three have the players facing each other and the throws are 1. high right, 2. high left and 3. low center…basically at 2 o’clock, 10 o’clock and 6 o’clock.  The player has thumbs together (triangle) for 2 and 10 and pinkies together for 6 o’clock.  With fingers spread and looking the ball in.  They do this for 2-3 minutes and then switch to an over the shoulder catch.  Now the receiver turns their back to the passer, slightly opened up to the shoulder the ball will come over.  The idea is to learn to catch balls thrown over the shoulder (post, corner, up) with pinkies together and fingers spread, looking the ball in. They pass back and forth to one shoulder and switch to the other shoulder so both sides are developed.  This is key…many times receivers have a strong side and a weak side and we want to develop both.

You start slow and as they learn proper hand positioning the drill can go very quickly.   You can get a lot of catches in over a few minutes.

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• I have 7 pylons that are within 3 to 4 yards, apart.
• The first pylon would be 3 yards ahead of the O player, D player is back approx 3 yards back from the O player.
• The next pylon would be to the right of the first on a straight line 3 to 4 yards, The next pylon would be up 4 yards from the last plyon.
• The next two are to the left on a straight line then the last in going back to the line of scrimmage.

The object of this football drill for the O player would be to touch the pylon with one hand–running outside the plyon lanes in the direction of the pylon with out getting touched by the D player who starts 3 yards behind the O player. D player must touch with both hands. If anyone runs inside the pylon is given one warning. Start again if it happens the second time that player is eliminated.

O and D player switch positions and the one with the best plus minus ratio goes on to the next round.

It shows the players agility, speed both on defense and offense. Always good to determine diamonds in the ruff.

This football drill brings up morale!

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To start, we do the usual hand off football drill.  Two lines face each other and hand off the football to each other as they pass in line. Then we do the same drill without the ball.

When we go to team, one of players grabs his jersey, like he has the ball, and keeps running, pumping his arm. He looks like he has the ball.

We are now doing that on every play/fake. When we watch film each Sunday we can see the backs kept at least one linebacker home each play.

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Break the huddle and have your players sprint to the formation. The formation is a double wing set, except there is no left tight end; he lines up as a flanker wide right. The QB is behind center, the fullback lines up off the line where the right tight end would normally line up. The right tight end lines up on the line of scrimmage, but over one spot, just outside the fullback. The tail back lines up directly behind the right tight end, off the line of scrimmage, shaded to his outside shoulder. The fastest kid on the team lines up as the left Wing back, where a normal double wing left wing would line up.

The left wing back goes in motion (like a fly sweep) full speed and the QB simply turns and hands him the ball as he fly’s by. With the overload right, and several players off the line of scrimmage, the offense normally gets good angles for blocks on the defense. The runner runs between the Tight End & Tail Back who hook their guys to the inside, and the flanker, Left TE, who pushes his guy (CB) to the sideline.

If the runner can beat the safety, you normally would get a touchdown the first time you run this play.

The reason we have the TB line up where we do, is if you run this football play more than a few times in a game, you can counter back with the TB, and have your full back and QB lead block for him.

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I tell my players I am “so-and-so” old, worked all day long, made dinner, did the dishes, and even took the garbage out on my way to this very practice. So,If I can do it giving the best effort I can, so can ALL OF YOU, because I am right here with you guys sweating, body hurting/sore, tired, AND LOVING IT.

I tell my football players to be leaders on and off the field, then give them a reassurance of their “leadership qualities & responsibilities,” and explain that those expectations I put on them are also on me–that’s why I am out their doing everything they are with them. YOU LEAD BY EXAMPLES!

The best thing about this technique is that I get them to push themselves rather than me push them.

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Drill Set Up
2 adjacent offensive lineman (center/guard, guard/tackle or tackle, TE)
One of these will then be covered by a down lineman while the other is covered by a linebacker. With this alignment I can simulate most any defense we will face. Spring and preseason work against many fronts, in season work against the front we will be facing each Friday night.

On snap count the lineman will execute the block for the football play we have called.(Take proper steps, proper hand placement and proper blocking technique on the down lineman) At a predetermined time the linebacker will either “Pop” the inside gap or “Scrape” over the top. Each lineman should then react properly and continue to execute their block.

Problems I have encountered with this football drill.
1. Linebacker moves to quick
Solution: Have him count 1,000 one, 1,000 2 before moving or have the coach signal when to move

2. Offensive lineman leaves the double team too quickly
Solution: You must emphasize this. I tell our lineman we are going to double team the down lineman and knock him in to the linebacker. The technique taught should be four hands on, four eyes looking. Stay on the double team, DO NOT leave until the LB moves.

3. Once one lineman leaves to get linebacker the other lineman loses his
block
Solution: This tells me he is not exploding off the ball and driving as he should. Three words, used often enough, wonders in football “Do it Again”.

Get off on the snap count, move your feet and get the defender moving. Do not depend on the other lineman to make the block for you. Do Your Job.

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Your defenders will learn to shed blocks, working down field controlling his area and finishes with a tackle.  The offense learn to take a proper angle and execute an open field block.

We do this football drill in a team competition format.
1.)  You need 1 defensive player and a minimum of 6 offensive players that includes a running back.
2.)  1 defender faces 1 offender (1st level) with a partner 2 yds. to the left and another to the right. Also 2-4 yds back (2nd level). So on and so forth. Create as many levels as you want. The defender should be facing  an “up side down” triangle.
3.) Put a RB all the way back directly across from the offender.
4.) DF reads RB hips (go right or left)
5.) Defender then proceeds down field shedding blocks through each level.
6.) Defender then uses a 2 TEK on last level. When the defender reaches the last level the RB then proceeds forward or get outside too the same direction  the defender was running.
7.) Defender must fill and finish!

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Begin with a Bunch set and run the bubble screen. This involves the inside receiver running a short swing route to the outside led by the outside receiver, the end (middle man in the set) and the onside tackle all blocking on this pass play.

You can also motion the tailback to the bunch side for an additional blocker. When your opponents have seen this play enough, you now have them setup for the next play.

With the same set and motion, run the bubble pass and release one of the blocking receivers (or the backside end) down field for a pass from the bubble receiver.
Obviously, the first pass needs to be a backwards pass. It certainly helps when your releasing receiver fakes a quick stalk block before releasing the football down field.

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