Drills for Get-offs and Pad Level

Coach,
Three drills come to mind you might try to use. Also Coach Golla i.e. Hawkoption has a series of Videos out that will help you. The first drill is starting in shuttes. Have the boys in a three point stance then lunge out with explosion as far as they can landing on their front side. The second drill is also with shuttes and work on five yard explosion off the line running through the shuttes. the tird drill is to have them understand the dominant position of a D-lineman. have them go to a chain link fence and get into a hit position with their lean and arms on the fence in a upward three point punch position. this drill could even be used as their conditioning period. It will get them comfortable to the low level dominant hit position of a D-Lineman. get this one into their heads since they should never get out of it when they are on the feild. In regards to the reacting to the ball. My boys never go on words but on foot movement. all the time. either you move your right or left foot, you use a ball, you flinch your body, whatever but they only go on body movement. Never words. as for the Physicalness, I tell my kids that if they want to play they get physical now. the patterns they develop now are the patterns they will follow when they get into pads. My boys get injured out of pads as much as they do in pads but they are all very physical with one another because we have as a team discussed this issue extensivley.D-Line is a constant fight and I tell them that not all people can play on it. You have to love to get nasty with one another.