How to Defend the Iso Run Play

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The Iso Play is probably one of the most popular and common running plays in football. It’s a power running game coming straight at you. One of most frustrating things is that if you can’t stop it, most of the time the opponents keep running it, keep running it, keep running.

We are going to have the iso of play against the 4-3 defense here. With the Iso play we changed some of the things that we did with the iso in the past. Even if you look in our 4-3 eBook I’m going to show some different things that we’re doing now in defending the Iso play. But a long time ago we defended the iso plays.

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How to Wrong Arm a Trap Block

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I have had a few questions since Coaching Football’s 4-2-5 Defense eBook came out about the proper way to wrong arm a trap block. I have talked about this before, but wanted to add a little video to illustrate the idea.

The wrong arm is the most effective way to defend against trap blocks. The defensive linemen are bending down the line of scrimmage when they are unblocked, rather than getting up field and getting kicked out by an on-coming trap blocker.

The wrong arm refers to taking the defender’s outside arm and ripping through the upfield shoulder of the trap blocker or kick-out (if it is a fullback).

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Executing the Rip Technique for Linebackers

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One of the hardest things for high school linebackers to do is defeat a block. After a lot of thought, I have decided to change the way I teach my linebackers to defeat blocks.

That is not an easy thing to do, but the fact is I haven’t seen many linebackers who could actually defeat a block the way I would like.The Old Way [Read more...]

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Defeating Blocks for Defensive Toughness

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This is Step 5 of the 10 Steps to Creating a Tougher Defense, an on-going series where we look at 10 ways to improve the overall toughness of your team defense.

Step 1: Conditioning Your Defense for Toughness
Step 2: Building Toughness in the Weight Room
Step 3: Equipping your Defense to Play ToughStep 4: Tackling Angles for Tough Defense [Read more...]

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