Tag: "football practice"

Building Ball Security with the Piggyback Drill

Building Ball Security with the Piggyback Drill

In today’s video blog post, we’re talking about running back drills, and checking out the piggyback drill, an awesome drill for building core strength, as well as ball security! In every drill we do, and that we possibly can do, the purpose is that we want to have the football. We want the teach and [...]

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Teaching Your QB & Wide Receiver to Read Coverages – Part 2

Teaching Your QB & Wide Receiver to Read Coverages – Part 2

Today, we are going to continue to talk about football practice plans and teaching the quarterback and wide receiver to read coverages. Remember, one of the reasons you’re trying to teach your quarterbacks and wide receivers the ability to read coverage before the ball is snapped is to allow them to have an idea or [...]

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Video: Run Blocking & Using The Hands

Video: Run Blocking & Using The Hands

Football has evolved into a hand contact game. It’s all strength, and all upper body. Your feet take you to where your block needs to go, but you use your hands to engage the man and control the man inside. When blocking, you want to be able to step and get your hand in there.  [...]

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Form-Fitted Tackling

Get Your Linebackers Ready to Tackle with These Drills

Today, we’re going to go over a variety of linebacker drills focusing on developing tackling skills (which is an important skill for every linebacker!). Form-Fitted Tackle With the form-fitted tackle, we want to approach the ball carrier in a good hitting position, so we’re going to put the linebacker in the ended position as if [...]

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Teaching Your QB & Wide Receiver to Read Coverages

Teaching Your QB & Wide Receiver to Read Coverages

There will come a time when you need to spend some of your football practice teaching the quarterback and wide receiver to read coverages. We talk about this with our quarterbacks  and our receivers the very first time we meet with them, about reading the roofline of the coverage. It’s probably the most elementary way. [...]

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