Category: Linebacker Drills
Linebacker Drills & Fundamentals Focusing on Escapes
When you run your football practices, chances are that you spend some time focusing on each of your team’s positions. This video is specifically aimed towards your linebackers. During this video, you’ll learn about how to escape from a blocker. Here are just a few of the ideas that are covered when it comes to [...]
Killer Linebacker Fundamentals and Drills
During this blog post, we’re going to talk about individual youth football drills that we use to develop the fundamentals and principles of play for our linebackers. Proper Linebacker Stance The first drill we’ll do will get your players into the proper stance. Here are some key points to remind your linebackers of with regards [...]
Man to Man Coverage – 2 Key Linebacker Tips
Often the difference between a great man to man defensive team and a good one, is the ability not of the corners, but of the linebackers. Here we will deal with drills to develop man-to-man techniques where our focus is on the receiver. Covering the Inside First we’ll just do a simple hold-up drill. The [...]
Linebacker Drills – 2 Awesome Tackling Tips
Like I’ve said before, learning the tackling fundamentalsis paramount to linebacker success. And while in my last post, we focused on the ideal tackle and tackling situation, today we’re going to look at some drills and techniques that your players can use in specific in game situations. Angled Form Tackling When performing a normal form [...]
Linebacker Fundamentals – Lateral Slide Drill
We put quite a bit of stock into a linebacker’s physical abilities – strength, speed, quickness and the like. And there’s nothing wrong with that, but much more important is how they are able to transfer those physical abilities into tackles. If a player is quick physically, but slow to react in his mind to [...]
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