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Offensive Football Drills (50)

Defensive Football Drills (50)

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Defensive Team Zone Drill

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Each Version Includes: 14 Defensive Team Drills

Our time-tested Defensive Football Drills Collection includes our 14 favorite defensive team drills to help a youth coach, volunteer coach or even parent improve their defensive team's basic skill sets.

These drills will improve your Defensive Team in the following areas:

To teach all defensive players to execute a form tackle
To teach all defensive players to execute proper pursuit angles
To teach all defensive players how to get off the ground effectively
To teach all defensive how to maintain a correct football stance.
To teach all defensive players to wrap up and tackle
To teach the defense to stop inside plays
To teach team defense and field position awareness
To set the tempo for practice and teach proper tackling techniques
To teach all defensive players to execute proper pursuit angles
To teach all defensive players how to maintain body balance and foot quickness
To teach linebackers and defensive ends to work together against inside runs
To teach all defensive players to execute proper pursuit angles
To teach all defensive players proper goal line tackling
To allow linebackers and defensive backs to work together against the run & pass

Drill Breakdown.

This chart shows exactly how each drill will improve your defensive team.

Drill Name	Areas of Focus	Why you should use this drill
Defensive Team Open Field Tackling Drill	Improve overall team tackling in the open field.	A defense must make tackles. Every defensive player needs to be able to make a tackle. Missed tackles will cost you points every time.
Defensive Team Pursuit Drill	Improve the overall level of pursuit by your defense.	Teach your defense to never quit. Following thru and never stopping will create turnovers and big plays from time to time.
Off the Ground Drill	Teach your defensive players how to get off the ground and still make a play.	A defensive player will get blocked to the ground from time to time. Getting off the ground and making a play could be the difference in winning or losing at some point. Train your defensive players to never quit, even when on the ground.
Defensive Team Start & Stance Drill	Emphasize the importance of a proper stance and starting position.	A poor stance will result in an instant advantage for the offense. If a player starts the play misaligned, he will probably create an instant opening in the defense. This opening will often be exploited with success, no matter how good the defense plays.
Defensive Team Power Tackle Drill	Improve overall defensive team tackling ability.	What is the defenses overall mission? To stop the offense, this requires making tackles.
Defensive Team Inside Drill	Focus on stopping inside run plays.	The majority of running plays run at the youth level are inside running plays. Stop the inside runs and you will limit the offense's rushing attack.
Defensive Team 5-Yard Drill	Teach the defense to keep field position and situational awareness in mind on every play.	This drill promotes team unity, a possession attitude and controlled confidence.
Defensive Team Circuit Tackling	Improve overall tackling ability of each defensive player.	Have your defenders learn how to make solid tackles anywhere on the field and from a variety of angles, no matter the situation.
Defensive Team Pass Pursuit Drill	Focus on Pursuing the QB.	Having a good pass rush will cause the QB to panic or become uncomfortable. This will lead to possible interceptions and incomplete interceptions, not to mention sacks and even fumbles.
Defensive Team Wheel Drill	Teach all defensive players how to maintain body balance and foot quickness	The key to making big defensive plays is maintaining proper body position and footwork. Without this your defenders will lose balance during contact and will end up off their feet instead of on top of the ball carrier.
Defensive Team Zone Run Drill	Teach the defensive front to work together, as a team, to stop the run.	Have your defensive front work in sync with each other. leaving no missed assignments and no weakness in the defense. Team defense is king.
Defensive Team Cone Drill	Focus defense on using proper pursuit angles every time.	Emphasize the importance of using proper pursuit angles to prevent runs from being broken for long gains because your defense under pursued and gets out run.
Defensive Team Goal Line Tackling Drill	Focus defensive unit on stopping the short yardage and goal line plays,.	Don't give up easy first downs or easy touchdowns in short yardage situations. Become a steel wall on short plays.
Defensive 7-on-7 Drill	Work on coordination between defensive backs and linebackers against the passing game.	When the defensive backs and linebackers are in sync together you will have no missed coverage, no wide open receivers and more interceptions and deflected passes. The better coverage downfield the more a QB will delay, leading to more sacks.

There are countless reasons why you should use these drills, the above chart shows just the BASIC reasons and areas your defensive team will improve in, the drills themselves go into a lot more detail.

Every single drill includes:

Step-by-Step Instructions for Drill Execution
Detailed Diagrams / Illustrations for EACH drill.
Additional Coaching Points / Tips for Each Drill.
Recommended Time allotted to drill and drill frequency.
Lists any additional gear or equipment needed to perform each drill.

Consider This: These drills have been tested "on the field" for decades, our staff has taken the most effective defensive team drills and placed the TOP 14 in our 50 defensive football drills collection.

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