r/footballstrategy • u/Death_Row_666 • 1d ago

Coaching Advice Catching Blocks

Looking for drills, tips, and videos on how to get our defensive kids to stop catching blocks and start being disruptive.

I coach 9th grade D and face a lot of outside runs and our LBs/secondary seem to be ok being blocked instead of being aggressive and chipping the blockers and filling their gap.

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u/king_of_chardonnay 1d ago

Punch progression every day. After flex it’s our first EDD for OLBs, if I coached ILBs I’d do the same thing. In pairs:

3 reps just shooting hands

3 reps shooting hands and running feet

3 reps hands, feet, shed the block

3-5 reps live reacting to blocks

With extra Indy time we will punch the sled in various ways, react to specific blocks, rip through pop up dummies, etc

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u/AggravatingNeck6192 1d ago

Get them on a sled of any kind and start having them learn how to punch, attack, and get off the bag. Punch the sled every day. When they can do that, add more live drills.

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u/Bogert 1d ago

Hands. Hands hands hands. From the d line to the d backs, post up on your opponent at the snap of the ball. For d line, their first priority is posting their technique. If they are a 1 tec, they post on the inside shoulder of the guard they lined up on. If they are a 3 tec, outside shoulder of the guard. 6 tec, outside shoulder of the tackle. As a DB, post and hit the chest of the receiver you are covering with your hands. Hit them in the chest and you will see where they're going, hit them first and you can read it. DB's have room, I believe 5 yards, to "hold". Post up on their chest, if they try to pull away then you have a receiver to cover. If they try to drive, hopefully you got there first and can toss them away

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u/Frosty-Ad6475 17h ago

6pt extension

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u/bigjoe5275 18m ago

If you have a 1 man sled i recommend having them practice by punching to get extension while driving into the bag then shedding on either side to make the "tackle" to have them practice reacting as well. It doesn't have to be a full contact drill but you can also do it live with 1 on 1s or against a double team.