Does thud speed work for you?

Offensive solution: go full speed against bags. Works great.

Defensive solution: Not sure I have one. You need to almost go full speed or walk thru pace. Anything else is tough. We do go thud, and do have problems. You just have to keep working on it.

i hate it. defensive coaches yelling 'get to the ball!', offensive coaches yelling 'stay up! stay up!'

What we do is we plan to tackle to the ground, our problem is that our 1s are so much better than our scout team. We tell them it's tackle but will have a quick whistle and blow the play dead in anticipation of a big hit. This gets kids running full speed and doesn't develop bad habits.

go over to the tack, get the high jump and pole value pits. get hadar scrimmage shields. have a player stand in front of the pit holding the scrimmage shield in front of him. have the defensive player get in his stance and take 3 to 5 steps tackling the player into the pit. you can also do it from the side the player just holds the scrimmage shield on the side covering up hip/ribs area.

this is also how we train our qbs to defeat the blitz in their face. qb takes 5 step drop, the defensive player carries the scrimmage shield and blitzs up the middle and hits the qb who falls into the high jump it. qb gets to know what it is like to get rid of the ball in a hurry on the hot read and to take a hit. we do it from the blind side as well.

we do this with receivers as well this is a big collision but it is worth it.
oh, never had a player get hurt. kids like it because of the big hits.

it is also how the defense teaches tackling progressions at all levels. you start with just lifting a player into the pit using proper tackling technique. I also would say get kevin bullis tackling videos from coaches choice. he really knows how to teach tackling.
never had a player get hurt. if you want to really learn how to take it easy but go hard i suggest you hire bill williams of the FCPGA. he has the best tackling progressions which go full speed for both defense and special teams. on offense he teaches your lineman how to block at full speed. even how to cut a player properly in the box.

We don't have the problem. I don't understand why the linemen would think that it affects them if you don't take the back to the ground. It seems that all you'd need is for one a$$hole (and I mean that in the good way) on the DL to ramp it up and embarrass a couple OL and things should be fun again up there.

BTW, do you film practice?

We do not film practice and if there is one thing that I will do when I get an HC job it will be that.

For me it is not even as much about the line as it is about the lack of execution everywhere else. Even though I feel they are playing patty cake up front they are getting after it more than anywhere else.

For me thud involves stopping your feet on contact because when the kids drive their feet more times than not they are going to take the kid to the ground. Thud also lends itself to shoulder tackles and no explosion. So I guess my biggest concern is working the "tackling" aspect of thud.

Of course it would also be nice if we had that a$$hole up front you are referring to.

We go a very fast thud tempo. We tell them that no one goes to the ground but that doesn't always happen. We tell them to wrap up and swarm the ball. We do a lot of tackling drills during practice so I guess that helps with tackling.