Inside Linebacker Reads 3-4

I teach reading through the guards to backfield. I feel that the backfield is where most misdirection happens. The only team you really get any misdirection on the OLine is with wing-t offenses and their false keys. I always tell my guys to play off that guard's butt. So for the first second they're reading, I call it their stimulus and than they respond accordingly. If we get a run stimulus (anything besides high hat) than we find the near back. If we get high hat, than we find and pattern match the nearest threat according to our coverage.

It takes time in the non contact months to really develop the reading abilities, I always am drilling reacting to their stimulus. With 7 on 7's use that time to drill the proper language. I'm constantly telling them that since we're getting high hat what's our response? Who are we matching? It's a great opportunity to develop the communication that you'll be using in the fall.