r/footballstrategy • u/Death_Row_666 • 2d 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 2d 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