Running Back Drills and Fundamentals

DROP BACK PASS PROTECTION TECHNIQUE:

1. Step up and meet the rusher as close to the LOS as possible. Give the rusher a one way go to the outside. Discourage an inside rush because of your position.

2. When the rusher gets a foot from you strike him with the heels of your fists in the sternum, and bring your helmet under his chin - recover and stay in front. Keep your body directly and squarely in the middle of the rusher at all times. Give ground grudgingly.

3. Keep your head up and eyes on the numbers of the defender at all times.

----a. If the rusher comes over you:

--------1) Meet him head up, eyes open, toe to toe.

--------2) Gather yourself by lowering your body.

--------3) Bend your knees not your waist.

--------4. Uncoil into the defender.

--------5. Keep your feet spread and moving.

--------6. Pop and recover - Pop and recover.

----b. If the defender rushes to the outside:

--------1. Hold inside position until he gets even with you.

--------2. Then pop him from inside-out. Keep popping him or driving him to the outside.

--------3. Permit the defensive man's own momentum to take him out of the play.

----c. If the defender rushes inside:

--------1. Bury him.