Freeze Step by ILB-Coach Campbell

I'm not coach Campbell, but a freeze step to me is a jab step taken by a back in the opposite direction than he will actually be going to complete the play. It is very effective in "freezing" or holding a LB who is reading him, just long enough for the offense to gain a step as the LB will not be certain which way to attack. He cannot be certain if the play is going the way the freeze step indicates or is it really going the other, thus causing an instantaneous "Freezing" of his movement. I hope this is what you are referring to.

Coach Easton

I have always wished that we had a universal football language, just for instances like this. To me, the terminology that indicates a LB taking a freeze step has always been called a read step or a jab step and a freeze step is what I have previously described. It is just semantics and no big deal. Terminology changes from camp to camp, we all know that, but it would be nice if we were all together on terms like this one. Coach Campbell has his term, I have mine, the next coach may have something entirely different but yet, we are all talking about the same thing. Just an idiosyncrisey of guys like us.
Sincerely hope I did not mess anybody up by fielding a question that was not directed to me in the first place, just trying to help as always.

Coach Easton
Coach Easton