Post by Coach Campbell on Feb 2, 2020 18:15:27 GMT
DEFENSIVE PRIORITIES
To be a great defensive football team, you must place special emphasis on the following suggestions. You will be working on these everyday in practice. It will be very repetitious and at times may seem to big a project, but your football players must mentally prepare themselves to work hard on them every day. You can't loaf through them or toward the middle of the season your defense will go downhill. The only way to improve on them is to continually work on them and you know from experience as a coach that MENTAL DISCIPLINE, PHYSICAL DISCIPLINE, KEYS TECHNIQUE, QUICKNESS, TACKLING, and CONSISTENCY are the most important things to have in order to have a great defense.
1. DISCIPLINE:
Discipline means that your athletes do it your way. Coaching is your profession and through experience, you know your way will work. Discipline keeps your defense from acquiring bad habits that will in turn hurt you and your team’s performance. Your approach to discipline will give your team the strength to overcome adversity.
As a football coach, do not demand discipline to build your image as tough guys or to have a dictator atmosphere. Discipline is for the reasons mentioned above and most of all so that you, as a staff can be fair and honest with the players whether they be a starter or a back up. The best way to accomplish that is to treat everyone the same and the only way to do that is to have discipline. (Be at meetings on time, helmets snapped at all times, etc.)
2. MENTAL DISCIPLINE:
A. Your team must be mentally ready to play as well as physically.
B. Your athletes must be on time for meetings, practice, etc… This will carry right on to the practice field and will make you a better team.
C. You cannot have mental mistakes. One mental mistake by one player can mean a touchdown or as in most cases, keep a drive going that results in a touchdown.
D. A mental mistake usually results from athletes not concentrating in your meetings, in practice or not studying your hand outs.
E. Demand that you atheletes learn their assignments during the week so on Friday night or scrimmage day they won’t be confused and can react and be aggressive.
3. CONDITIONING:
A. Discipline your team to stay in shape throughout the year.
B. Push your athletes when working on sprints, distance or any or her type of running.
C. No Pain No Gain. The fourth quarter must be yours.
D. Discipline your athletes to play with pain. If injured, you don't need to expect your players to play. Remember, there is a difference between pain and injury. YOUR GREAT PLAYERS AND TEAMS KNOW THE DIFFERENCE.
4. KEYS:
A. Your athletes must know their keys every play and concentrate on them.
B. Your athletes must be able to read with their keys, understand the play which is developing.
C. Read On The Run after attacking the L.O.S. Your ability to react to your secondary keys (blocking schemes, pass routes, ball) will make you a sound defensive football team.
5. TECHNIQUE:
A. To be a great defensive football team your coaches and players must understand the need for great technique.
B. Don't just understand X's and O's but pride yourself in being a great technician of the game. Be aggressive with your technique and don't be satisfied with controlling your man, but beat him. Great technique is obtained through total concentration and effort in practice.
6. QUICKNESS OR RUNNING TO THE FOOTBALL:
A. Always talk quickness to the football, after you key and play your technique, then quickness becomes of utmost importance
B. You can never be too quick; This will improve if you work hard at practice and demand your coaches to always emphasize it.
C. It's possible to give up some size and strength for quickness and play. You can never give up quickness for size and strength though.
D. Agility Agility drills, bags, ropes, and sprints, work hard on these everyday. Work on agility everyday it will make for greater team speed
PHILOSOPHY OF TEAM PURSUIT
Team pursuit is a burning desire for all eleven players getting to the football. Freezing a video frame, and counting the number of players around the football on every play can evaluate team pursuit.
You can be a turn over producing defense with great team pursuit. Force people to go the distance in order to score.
You can build a reputation of punishing gang tackling from the front and backside, by demanding team pursuit.
WHAT IT TAKES TO PURSUE:
A. Pursuit is first a mental process.
B. Visualize pursuing and making great plays.
C. Physical Conditioning is necessary so you can have great pursuit on every Play.
D. Speed React Fast and quickly. You can improve your speed and quickness.
HOW TO PURSUE:
A. Play technique and gap responsibility first.
B. Take correct course (pursuit angle) to the ball.
C. Don't follow the same color Jersey.
D. You have to want to be first to the ball.
E. Who ever is responsible for contain must keep the ball carrier inside into the pursuit. Everyone else works inside out to the ball.
ONCE YOU ARRIVE AT THE BALL:
A. Come to balance (come under control).
B. Good bent knee-striking position.
C. Step to and through the ball carrier (take one extra step).
D. Club and wrap up (your numbers up through their numbers).
WHAT PURSUIT DOES:
A. Eliminates the Long T.D.
B. Discourages opponents
i. During the course of the game.
ii. Strikes fear and intimidates future opponents.
C. Promotes consistent team performance.
D. Creates turnovers all over the field.
TACKLING
DEFINITION:
A tackle is a desired collision between the defensive man and the ball carrier. The Defensive Man Must Win!!
OBJECTIVE:
To stop the ball carrier in his tracks for little or no gain, and to gang tackle. Tackling is 50% determination, and 50% technique. It takes both aggressiveness, and good technique to be a great tackler.
TECHNIQUE/FUNDAMENTALS:
1. Meet the ball carrier in a god hitting position.
2. Eyes should be focused on the ball carriers numbers.
3. Don’t give the ball carrier a two way cut.
4. Keep butt low, keep head up, first contact should be made with the chest, or numbers. As the chest or numbers makes contact, roll the hips.
5. Do not leave your feet. Wide base, short choppy steps, drive through ball carrier and take him backwards.
6. On contact, work arms from high to low, wrap viciously, and pull the ball carrier toward you, squeeze and grab cloth.
7. If you are caught in a poor hitting position, somehow make the tackle. Grab arms, legs, or anything you can get a hold of, except the facemask.
OPEN FIELD TACKLE:
1. Gather yourself and come under control 3 to 4 yards from the ball carrier, feet chopping-move toward the ball carrier.
2. Keep eyes on the belt buckle, and get into good hitting position. Make the tackle.
3. Give the ball carrier only one-way to go, and then take it away.
4. Leave your feet only as a last resort.
5. Use the sideline whenever possible.
6. Force the ball carrier back into pursuit when possible.
TACKLING TECHNIQUE
A. A correct tackle incorporates the fundamentals of the following:
1. Approach.
2. Contact
3. Finish
B. Tackling Progression:
1. Place yourself in the ideal tackling position, (knees bent, back flat, head-up).
2. Contact – The pop is the coordinated skill of making contact in the correct position while rolling the hips, thrusting the arms, and utilizing the power of the legs and lower back.
a. As contact is made, thrust arms in an upward motion around the ball carrier.
b. Squeeze and grab cloth.
c. Pull the ball carrier toward you.
3. Finish – The combination of the contact and the leg drive allows the tackler to finish the action by placing the ball carrier on his back. Run through the ball carrier.
4. Approach – Once the contact, and the finish, have been mastered, the approach must be mastered. As you approach the ball carrier breakdown – assume a good hitting position, feet chopping, close the distance between you and the ball carrier, concentrate on his belt buckle. Do not absorb the punishment; deliver a blow when you tackle.
5. Do’s:
a. Keep your head up.
b. Squeeze and grab cloth.
c. Keep a wide base.
d. Keep your eyes open.
e. Keep you feet in desperation
To be a great defensive football team, you must place special emphasis on the following suggestions. You will be working on these everyday in practice. It will be very repetitious and at times may seem to big a project, but your football players must mentally prepare themselves to work hard on them every day. You can't loaf through them or toward the middle of the season your defense will go downhill. The only way to improve on them is to continually work on them and you know from experience as a coach that MENTAL DISCIPLINE, PHYSICAL DISCIPLINE, KEYS TECHNIQUE, QUICKNESS, TACKLING, and CONSISTENCY are the most important things to have in order to have a great defense.
1. DISCIPLINE:
Discipline means that your athletes do it your way. Coaching is your profession and through experience, you know your way will work. Discipline keeps your defense from acquiring bad habits that will in turn hurt you and your team’s performance. Your approach to discipline will give your team the strength to overcome adversity.
As a football coach, do not demand discipline to build your image as tough guys or to have a dictator atmosphere. Discipline is for the reasons mentioned above and most of all so that you, as a staff can be fair and honest with the players whether they be a starter or a back up. The best way to accomplish that is to treat everyone the same and the only way to do that is to have discipline. (Be at meetings on time, helmets snapped at all times, etc.)
2. MENTAL DISCIPLINE:
A. Your team must be mentally ready to play as well as physically.
B. Your athletes must be on time for meetings, practice, etc… This will carry right on to the practice field and will make you a better team.
C. You cannot have mental mistakes. One mental mistake by one player can mean a touchdown or as in most cases, keep a drive going that results in a touchdown.
D. A mental mistake usually results from athletes not concentrating in your meetings, in practice or not studying your hand outs.
E. Demand that you atheletes learn their assignments during the week so on Friday night or scrimmage day they won’t be confused and can react and be aggressive.
3. CONDITIONING:
A. Discipline your team to stay in shape throughout the year.
B. Push your athletes when working on sprints, distance or any or her type of running.
C. No Pain No Gain. The fourth quarter must be yours.
D. Discipline your athletes to play with pain. If injured, you don't need to expect your players to play. Remember, there is a difference between pain and injury. YOUR GREAT PLAYERS AND TEAMS KNOW THE DIFFERENCE.
4. KEYS:
A. Your athletes must know their keys every play and concentrate on them.
B. Your athletes must be able to read with their keys, understand the play which is developing.
C. Read On The Run after attacking the L.O.S. Your ability to react to your secondary keys (blocking schemes, pass routes, ball) will make you a sound defensive football team.
5. TECHNIQUE:
A. To be a great defensive football team your coaches and players must understand the need for great technique.
B. Don't just understand X's and O's but pride yourself in being a great technician of the game. Be aggressive with your technique and don't be satisfied with controlling your man, but beat him. Great technique is obtained through total concentration and effort in practice.
6. QUICKNESS OR RUNNING TO THE FOOTBALL:
A. Always talk quickness to the football, after you key and play your technique, then quickness becomes of utmost importance
B. You can never be too quick; This will improve if you work hard at practice and demand your coaches to always emphasize it.
C. It's possible to give up some size and strength for quickness and play. You can never give up quickness for size and strength though.
D. Agility Agility drills, bags, ropes, and sprints, work hard on these everyday. Work on agility everyday it will make for greater team speed
PHILOSOPHY OF TEAM PURSUIT
Team pursuit is a burning desire for all eleven players getting to the football. Freezing a video frame, and counting the number of players around the football on every play can evaluate team pursuit.
You can be a turn over producing defense with great team pursuit. Force people to go the distance in order to score.
You can build a reputation of punishing gang tackling from the front and backside, by demanding team pursuit.
WHAT IT TAKES TO PURSUE:
A. Pursuit is first a mental process.
B. Visualize pursuing and making great plays.
C. Physical Conditioning is necessary so you can have great pursuit on every Play.
D. Speed React Fast and quickly. You can improve your speed and quickness.
HOW TO PURSUE:
A. Play technique and gap responsibility first.
B. Take correct course (pursuit angle) to the ball.
C. Don't follow the same color Jersey.
D. You have to want to be first to the ball.
E. Who ever is responsible for contain must keep the ball carrier inside into the pursuit. Everyone else works inside out to the ball.
ONCE YOU ARRIVE AT THE BALL:
A. Come to balance (come under control).
B. Good bent knee-striking position.
C. Step to and through the ball carrier (take one extra step).
D. Club and wrap up (your numbers up through their numbers).
WHAT PURSUIT DOES:
A. Eliminates the Long T.D.
B. Discourages opponents
i. During the course of the game.
ii. Strikes fear and intimidates future opponents.
C. Promotes consistent team performance.
D. Creates turnovers all over the field.
TACKLING
DEFINITION:
A tackle is a desired collision between the defensive man and the ball carrier. The Defensive Man Must Win!!
OBJECTIVE:
To stop the ball carrier in his tracks for little or no gain, and to gang tackle. Tackling is 50% determination, and 50% technique. It takes both aggressiveness, and good technique to be a great tackler.
TECHNIQUE/FUNDAMENTALS:
1. Meet the ball carrier in a god hitting position.
2. Eyes should be focused on the ball carriers numbers.
3. Don’t give the ball carrier a two way cut.
4. Keep butt low, keep head up, first contact should be made with the chest, or numbers. As the chest or numbers makes contact, roll the hips.
5. Do not leave your feet. Wide base, short choppy steps, drive through ball carrier and take him backwards.
6. On contact, work arms from high to low, wrap viciously, and pull the ball carrier toward you, squeeze and grab cloth.
7. If you are caught in a poor hitting position, somehow make the tackle. Grab arms, legs, or anything you can get a hold of, except the facemask.
OPEN FIELD TACKLE:
1. Gather yourself and come under control 3 to 4 yards from the ball carrier, feet chopping-move toward the ball carrier.
2. Keep eyes on the belt buckle, and get into good hitting position. Make the tackle.
3. Give the ball carrier only one-way to go, and then take it away.
4. Leave your feet only as a last resort.
5. Use the sideline whenever possible.
6. Force the ball carrier back into pursuit when possible.
TACKLING TECHNIQUE
A. A correct tackle incorporates the fundamentals of the following:
1. Approach.
2. Contact
3. Finish
B. Tackling Progression:
1. Place yourself in the ideal tackling position, (knees bent, back flat, head-up).
2. Contact – The pop is the coordinated skill of making contact in the correct position while rolling the hips, thrusting the arms, and utilizing the power of the legs and lower back.
a. As contact is made, thrust arms in an upward motion around the ball carrier.
b. Squeeze and grab cloth.
c. Pull the ball carrier toward you.
3. Finish – The combination of the contact and the leg drive allows the tackler to finish the action by placing the ball carrier on his back. Run through the ball carrier.
4. Approach – Once the contact, and the finish, have been mastered, the approach must be mastered. As you approach the ball carrier breakdown – assume a good hitting position, feet chopping, close the distance between you and the ball carrier, concentrate on his belt buckle. Do not absorb the punishment; deliver a blow when you tackle.
5. Do’s:
a. Keep your head up.
b. Squeeze and grab cloth.
c. Keep a wide base.
d. Keep your eyes open.
e. Keep you feet in desperation
