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🔥Excited to announce that D-Line University enrollment is now open!
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D-linemen aren't typically known for being students of the game, but if you can create a front that knows what's coming before the ball's snapped, you're sitting on gold.
Here's an example of the top students of the game, Luke Kuechly.
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This is
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These coaches have had a ton of success; however, do you think this style of coaching is still effective with today's athletes?
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🔥D-linemen aren’t typically known for being students of the game, but if you can create a front that knows what’s coming before the ball’s snapped, you’re sitting on gold.
Here’s an example of one of the greatest students of the game, Luke Kuechly.
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🔥Getting held? Use the scissor technique to deliver precision strikes to your opponents forearms.
To execute this technique hook your hands, strike the forearms and finish with a rip.
Love watching Aaron Donald and Demarcus Ware share their knowledge!
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🔥D-Linemen who maniacally pursue the ball make game changing plays.
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🔥D-Linemen who maniacally pursue the ball make game changing plays.
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🔥This is the best clip I’ve ever seen of “hips, hands and then feet”!
So much power can be generated from the hips.
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🔥Maybe the best clip I’ve ever seen of hips, hand and then feet.
AD is freaky strong, but every D-Linemen should strive for this level of hip explosion.
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🔥Great D-Linemen are defiant by nature.
They refused to be blocked or controlled by any opponent.
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🔥This is one of the best clips I’ve seen of setting the edge.
Derrick Hall does a great job of…
1. Striking sternum & shoulder cuff
2. Getting extension
3. Switching from 2 arms to 1
4. And violently throwing off
Great stuff!
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🔥Explosive hips are foundational to generating power out of your stance.
Here’s an innovative drill from
@Coach_TDavis
to improve this skill:
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🔥Missing sacks?
Use UGA’S rodeo drill to improve your D-Line’s ability to track down quicker/shiftier athletes.
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Love this unique way of defeating double.
Instead of pressing through the shoulder, Corey Liuget grabs the blockers pads and corkscrews.
I imagine this technique would work well for undersized D-Linemen.
Thoughts?
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🔥I’ve always been taught to take a 6 inch step first and then explode with my hands and hips; however…
…exploding with the hands and hips first can generate much more force and catch the blocker off guard.
Just look at how the blocker’s head snaps back!
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Craig’s Celebration of Life will be held on March 16th in Phoenix, Arizona.
Please wear your Sunday best!
A big thank you to those that have donated to our GoFundMe (link in bio), it means the world to our family as we grieve this monumental loss. 💔
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🔥Having trouble turning the corner?
Use a PVC pipe to practice reducing surface area & dipping the shoulder.
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🔥Unpopular opinion…
1-on-1s without pads are useless.
Thoughts?
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🔥Having trouble getting off blocks?
Here's a tip from Coach Harbaugh on how to utilize your post arm to effectively escape your opponent's grasp.
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“When you stop the run you earn the right to rush the passer.”
- Mike Vrabel
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🔥Power comes from your hips.
Here's an exercise to make them even more powerful.
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“Lazy people do a little work and think they should be winning; but winners work as hard as possible and still worry if they are being lazy.”
- Lewis Caralla
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🔥My former coach Greg Mattison on how to execute a dent on a pulling lineman.
Gotta change the math!
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🔥The New York Giants sprinkle Outside Zone Blocking into their 1 on 1 Pass Rush Period to make the Drill like the Game.
The OL is Pass Setting or Working to Reach. The DL is Rushing or Maintaining Gap Responsibility.
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"The number one responsibility of a position coach is to develop confidence."
- Chris Petersen
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🔥When destroying blocks you have 3 jobs.
• Job 1 = Lock out
• Job 2 = Peek in gap
• Job 3 = Shed and make the play
Take care of job 1 to go to job 2, take care of job 2 to go to job 3.
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🔥 The New York Giants sprinkle Outside Zone Blocking into their 1 on 1 Pass Rush Period to make the Drill like the Game.
The OL is Pass Setting or Working to Reach. The DL is Rushing or Maintaining Gap Responsibility.
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🔥Coach Johnson with some great tips on hand placement, eyes and violence when hand fighting.
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🔥Power comes from your hips. Here’s an exercise to make them even more powerful!
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🔥Use the stutter bull to widen your opponents punch and surprise him with power.
Below are 4 more of my favorite edge rushes.
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🔥There is so much you can do to become a better tackler this off season.
To help, here’s a low impact tackling drill.
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🔥Tackling is the most over talked about under practiced aspect of defensive line play.
Here’s 20+ tackling drills from
@CoachGiancola
that you can use to improve your D-Line:
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🔥Getting held? Use the scissor technique to deliver precision strikes to your opponents forearms.
To execute this technique hook your hands, strike the forearms and finish with a rip.
Love watching Aaron Donald and Demarcus Ware share their tools!
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🔥How to corkscrew…
Step 1: Attack the primary blocker
It's dang near impossible to defeat a double if you take on more than one blocker.
But instead of punching through the blocker's chest, grab the cloth on his shoulder pads.
This will give you the ability to turn his…
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Most D-Linemen’s hips are tighter than a snare drum.
They lift too much weight and end up becoming horrible athletes.
To reverse the damage, here’s 5 exercises to unlock your hips.
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🔥When denting, meet the puller head up at full speed so you can make the play in the inside our outside gap.
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🔥When stunting from a 4i read the tackle.
If he down blocks, redirect and stay shallow to the line of scrimmage so you can make the play on the dive.
Here’s a drill to practice this by taking a lateral step, redirecting and gator roll tackling the dive.
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🔥Tackling in the box is chaotic so why not incorporate realistic situations into your drill work.
For example, you can use
@NineintheBox
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🔥If you want your D-Line to pursue in a game, simulate realistic pursuit angles in your drill work.
Below is a drill you can use for this.
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🔥Coach Johnson with some great tips on hand placement, eyes and violence when hand fighting.
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🔥Most D-Linemen waste precious time while waiting to take physical reps; however…
…science has proven that mental reps can be as (or even more effective) than physical ones.
So instead of playing grab a$$, be like 59 and use this time to improve your skills.
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🔥How to execute a Steeler Stunt
Step 1: Dip and Step
To get to your assigned gap it’s critical to avoid contact on your first step.
To accomplish this step lateral and dip your shoulder to reduce the surface area your opponent can use to seal you from your gap.
Step 2: Read…
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Did anyone else know that Vita Vea played RB in high school?
These highlights are insane!
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🔥When power rushing, always have a counter ready.
The Raiders practice this by stabbing the sled and then countering with a club.
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How many of y’all have been where my man Vita Vea was in this clip?
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🔥Take what the OL gives you.
Have a plan on how to defeat high hands, low hands, or no hands!
Some great tips from AD!
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🔥Never make the excuse that you can’t make plays because you’re getting held.
Instead aggressively shed to get your opponent off of you.
Here’s a drill to improve this skill.
And yes I know they’re DBs, but still a great drill for DL!
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🔥How Nolan Smith destroys zone read...
...from a 6-technique.
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🔥There is so much you can do to become a better tackler this off season.
To help, here’s a low impact tackling drill.
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🔥Explosive hips are foundational to generating power out of your stance.
Here’s an innovative drill from
@Coach_TDavis
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🔥When stunting, avoid false stepping with your push foot.
Larry Johnson teaches this by placing his foot inside the push foot of the stunter.
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🔥It takes 10,000 hours of practice to become an expert D-Lineman.
You can expedite this by taking mental reps (like 59) when you’re waiting to take physical ones.
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🔥Tackling is the most over talked about under practiced aspect of D-Line play.
Make sure then to incorporate it into your drill work.
Here's a drill you can use to practice tackling and defeating zone read by shuffling to the hip, reading the mesh and tackling the dive.
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As a DLineman mistakes are part of the game. Lack of effort is inexcusable!!! Even if you’ve made a mistake it’s better to do it at 100mph than 0.
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🔥Having trouble turning the corner?
Use a PVC pipe to practice reducing surface area & dipping the shoulder.
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🔥Simulate fanatical effort in your drill work to see fanatical effort during the game.
Here’s a drill from
@CoachBTJordan
that utilizes competition to drive fanatical effort and engagement.
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🔥The stab is one of the most versatile moves a pass rusher can add to their repertoire.
It can easily transform into an edge, power or counter move simply by feeling the position of your opponent.
If your opponent sits inside…convert to an edge rush.
If he sits…
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🔥The stab is one of the most versatile moves a pass rusher can add to their repertoire.
It can easily transform into an edge, power or counter move simply by feeling the position of your opponent.
If your opponent sits inside…convert to an edge rush.
If he sits…
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🔥Top-tier D-Linemen are top-tier athletes.
The best have…
• Loose hips
• Violent hands
• Quick feet and
• The ability to quickly change direction
Make sure incorporate drills like the one above to develop these skills.
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🔥Knock back is generated from the hips and applied through your hands.
To improve this skill, use
@coachbtjordan
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It's one of the best I've ever seen!
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🔥In an attack react mindset, explode with hips and hands first and then follow with feet.
Here’s a drill to practice this by exploding with the hips and punching with thumbs up and elbows rolled in.
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🔥D-Line is all about stimulus and response.
The faster you can react to a stimulus the closer you’ll be to making big plays.
Below is a drill to help with this…
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🔥Getting held?
Use the scissor technique to deliver precision strikes to your opponents forearms.
To execute this technique hook your hands, strike the forearms and finish with a rip.
Love watching AD and Demarcus Watt share their knowledge!
FYI you can follow me
@craigroh
…
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🔥Use the stutter bull to widen your opponents punch and surprise him with power.
Here's a few tips to do this move to perfection...
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🔥After striking your opponent think lock, peek & shed.
Lock: Extend your arms
Peek: Look around the blocker
Shed: Escape when the RB commits
Here’s a drill from Coach Herbert Moore to practice this…
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🔥After striking, keep your chin on the shoulder when peaking in your gap.
Doing this keeps your pad level low and prevents you from looking over the blocker.
Via
@dlinevids1
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🔥My former Coach Greg Mattison teaches to treat a pull just like a base block, but to win inside vs. outside.
This gives the DE the ability to disrupt the puller and change the math.
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🔥D-Linemen who maniacally pursue the ball make game changing plays.
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🔥Tight hips & ankles are actively stunting your pass rush ability.
It’s simple.
If you can’t bend, you drastically reduce the moves you can add to your tool box.
However, if you can bend, you can unlock moves (like the one below) that make you near impossible to block.
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🔥Instead of using an auditory cue (e.g. "hut") when executing 6-point explosion, try using a visual cue (e.g. bag movement) to start the drill.
This will improve your D-Line’s reaction and prevent the bad habit of moving on sound.
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🔥 Resurfacing this teach tape clip of hips, hands then feet because this is possibly one of the best I’ve ever seen.
AD is extremely gifted, but every D-Linemen should strive for this level of hip explosion & lock out.
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🔥When you’re being double teamed, never stop your feet.
Instead keep your feet moving so you can recapture your gap when the adjacent blocker leaves.
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🔥Precision hand placement is critical to controlling your opponent.
When 1-gapping, shoot hands at the sternum and cuff.
When 2-gapping, shoot hands at the arm pits with thumbs up.
Here’s a drill to practice this.
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🔥My former coach Greg Mattison on how to execute a dent on a pulling lineman.
Gotta change the math!
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Recently stumbled upon some of Bryan Bresee’s high school highlights.
Dude was a menace!
Who do you think has the most impressive high school highlights of all time?
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🔥Coach Lupoi teaches his D-Line to lock, peek and shed after striking their opponent.
Lock: Extend your arms
Peek: Look around the blocker
Shed: Escape when the RB commits
Here’s a drill to practice this…
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Larry Johnson’s Rushmen clinic contains the drills & systems he uses to build OSU’s pass rush attack.
However it’s 60 minutes long.
I distilled the major points into a thread so you can ingest it in 6 minutes.
THREAD…
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🔥Most D-Linemen stop their feet after striking their opponent.
Instead KEEP DRIVING after contact so you can reset the line of scrimmage.
Here's a drill from UGA to hone this skill:
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🔥Every pass rusher needs to program their hands to quickly & violently react to contact.
@chucksmithnfl
develops this skill by drilling hands w/ eyes closed.
This wires your brain to automatically react to a pressure key (e.g. punch).
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🔥Why is the long arm so effective?
It’s simply because one arm is longer than two.
By stabbing with one arm you create separation between you and your opponent…
…and prevent him from punching you.
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