This is the 1st year I've filmed parts of practice and I wish I had been doing it forever. Almost all of our filming is done quickly via my iPhone or an iPad. With the "capture" feature in the Hudl App the video can be quickly uploaded and shared after practice or I can save it to post to YouTube which I will be using to share some of our drill work with you from 4 man off season workouts and more recently from the past few weeks of practice.
The best thing about filming is I can go back and see all the little things we still need to improve. For example, in several of the clips we do not have consistent hand placement by offensive players on their blocks or by defensive players when attacking blockers. Similarly, we are still struggling to defensively to always take our 1st step with the near foot. The bottom line is that as long as you can find time to review it, filming practice is something that I see as very beneficial because it will help myself as a coach, and most importantly our players, to improve all the finer details of their basic fundamentals.
If you have any of your own drill video, questions or suggestions regarding the drills or our techniques please share them as like any coaching I'm always looking to improve my teaching and my team.
The best thing about filming is I can go back and see all the little things we still need to improve. For example, in several of the clips we do not have consistent hand placement by offensive players on their blocks or by defensive players when attacking blockers. Similarly, we are still struggling to defensively to always take our 1st step with the near foot. The bottom line is that as long as you can find time to review it, filming practice is something that I see as very beneficial because it will help myself as a coach, and most importantly our players, to improve all the finer details of their basic fundamentals.
If you have any of your own drill video, questions or suggestions regarding the drills or our techniques please share them as like any coaching I'm always looking to improve my teaching and my team.
The Mano-y-Mano Drill is a competitive drill designed to reinforce basic skills of offensive and defensive line play.
Offensive lineman choose to either down step and release to a linebacker or drop step and reach the defensive lineman. To win a down block they must get a nearly clean release to the linebacker and make contact before the defensive lineman squeezes and bends down the line to the inside bag that represents a kick out block or dive back. To win a reach block the offense must maintain outside leverage until the coach blows the whistle.
Defensive lineman must much the outside hips of the offense and react appropriately to the down block or reach block. The winning defensive reaction off a down block is to continue to squeeze down on the outside hip knocking the offensive lineman off his course before bending flat down the line of scrimmage to collision the bag inside with his outside shoulder. The winning defensive reaction off a reach block is to fight to gain outside leverage and rip off the block.
We will also including pass blocking and pass rush in the drill, but this video is from a week of practice against an opponent that had a 74% run to 26% pass ratio so we chose to reinforce playing with low pad by working in the chutes as shown in the video below.
Defensive lineman must much the outside hips of the offense and react appropriately to the down block or reach block. The winning defensive reaction off a down block is to continue to squeeze down on the outside hip knocking the offensive lineman off his course before bending flat down the line of scrimmage to collision the bag inside with his outside shoulder. The winning defensive reaction off a reach block is to fight to gain outside leverage and rip off the block.
We will also including pass blocking and pass rush in the drill, but this video is from a week of practice against an opponent that had a 74% run to 26% pass ratio so we chose to reinforce playing with low pad by working in the chutes as shown in the video below.
The OL Veer vs DL Squeeze & Bend Drill is designed to reinforce basic offensive and defensive line skills.
Offensive lineman are trying to take a flat down step with a hard rip by their outside arm so they they can get clean release and climb vertically to backers. We incorporate this offensive technique in our Midline, Inside Veer and Outside Veer schemes to release around the dive or read key. The same technique is also used by covered lineman in Trap schemes that our common in many other offenses.
Defensive lineman are trying to get hands on the hips of the offensive lineman squeezing the blocker flat down the line before bending hard down the heel line and hitting the bag inside which represents a kick out block or dive back. Many defensive schemes that have a Block-Down-Squeeze-Down philosophy such as ours use this defensive technique.
Defensive lineman are trying to get hands on the hips of the offensive lineman squeezing the blocker flat down the line before bending hard down the heel line and hitting the bag inside which represents a kick out block or dive back. Many defensive schemes that have a Block-Down-Squeeze-Down philosophy such as ours use this defensive technique.
The last two playlists have a variety of drills we use during off season 4-man workouts. The overall focus at this time is to teach the offensive lineman techniques in our option scheme with some basic defensive line drill work. While not every technique may translate directly to other offensive schemes, many of the drills could be easily adapted with a little creative thinking. By far, my favorite drill is reach-the-reacher and is part of every off season drill workout, as well as done at least once per week in season.