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Post by chiefscoach on Nov 29, 2006 10:20:17 GMT -6
doesn't matter if they can make the tackle if they can't get into position to do so Getting them into position is our job.
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Post by wingtol on Nov 29, 2006 10:23:35 GMT -6
About the whole live tackling issue. We are a small school, very small, we had about 40-50 players. About 15 Jr's and Sr's for the varisty team. When we did def team we went live alot. We blew the whistle quick but not to quick if you know what I mean it wasn't just a wrap and whistle we would let them goto the ground alot to get use to it. If you want to be physical in a game you need to practice physical. That is our mentality.
Also we did a tackle circuit every monday with our Var during the JV games. We also started all def practices with tackling drills.
We also were very vanilla on def. don't have 10,000 blitzes 5000 coverages and 1000 fronts. Don't confuse the kids. Put them in a position to make plays. Teams knew what we were going to do. We still ened up giving up under 6 points a game in 12 games. make sure they understand their responsiblies. Its been said in about every post here so far and can't be said enough.
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Post by knighter on Nov 29, 2006 10:42:10 GMT -6
To have a good defense you need Chuck Norris and Mr. T and that is it.
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Post by CoachMikeJudy on Nov 29, 2006 10:51:44 GMT -6
Our defense was 100x's better than the last 2 years- same coordinator/schemes but different kids.
We're a 3-5-3 with speed (9 starters under 4.9)
Stressed tackling, pursuit, fits by the LBs. We were weak in underneath coverage but we stuffed the run all year (2.0 yds/per)
Used a few simple schemes like a 33 stack, eagle, and bear look. Being our OC, I can say it was a bear to break us down due to the different looks. I think if we could add some stemming to our package, they could be unbelieveable. 1 Junior LB set school record in game 26 tak, 4 loss, 2 sacks. Sick!
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Post by blb on Nov 29, 2006 16:06:19 GMT -6
My college coach claimed that "90% of defensive players guilty of breakdowns aligned themselves improperly."
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Post by yznx3e on Nov 29, 2006 20:54:37 GMT -6
Hey Mike,
Out of curiosity how long have your kids been in your system. I mean how many offseasons have you guys had them and how long have you been running the 3-5-3 with them? Do you think they have improved on defense because of the scheme, an improved offseason, or just more talent?
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Post by CoachMikeJudy on Nov 30, 2006 7:19:02 GMT -6
Hey Mike, Out of curiosity how long have your kids been in your system. I mean how many offseasons have you guys had them and how long have you been running the 3-5-3 with them? Do you think they have improved on defense because of the scheme, an improved offseason, or just more talent? This is the 2nd season in the stack and to be honest, I think it the success has been due to scheme and improved offseason. To be quite honest, we have far less talent than we have had in the past, but we have some blue-collar kids who sell out for me in the weight room and on the field. In the offseason, we sat down and evaulated our personnel hard. It was glaring that we had guys out of position and others who just couldn't do the job. We singled out the kids who flew to the ball and played low to put at the backer spots, and ended up moving our free safety to LB. We had a bigger spur who had been a contain type player all of his life but had always had his hand down and looked lost when in space, so we moved him inside to End. We made a concentrated effort to get faster players on the field. The fat slop-bucket 3 techniques of the past are now limited in the scheme. Our kids executed our summer speed/strength program and everyone got faster. Scheme-wise, we kept it simple, playing stack in all scrimmages but practicing our eagle front. When we opened the season against a perrenial powerhouse, we played eagle almost the entire game against 21 personnel and stuffed there run. We opened the season with the biggest upset in school history.
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Post by yznx3e on Nov 30, 2006 21:27:31 GMT -6
Mike,
In your opinion do you guys do anything in the offseason that tests their toughness, ie bootcamp or competitions?
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Post by CoachMikeJudy on Dec 1, 2006 7:20:59 GMT -6
Our weight room schedule and speed/conditioning workouts are pretty tough- generally have 4-5 kids throw up on squat day and speed workouts in the early weeks. One thing that helps is senior leadership. We had a group of guys that
1. Lead by example 2. Were vocal 3. And had some "street credibility" (intimidation factor)
If someone was slacking these guys would jump their crap before us coaches knew what was going on. One speed workout this summer had us running like 10x80m @ 100%/2 min rest. They ran hard for the most part, some youngins' fell out and started puking but I thought they had done a decent job. On the last one, our senior RB smoked everybody and when he got down the end watched as everyone else trotted down the track. He flipped out- started MF'ing everybody- straight calling them out..."I'm tired of losing, that's not gonna beat so-n-so, if you can't hang get the f#$% off this field"- almost to the point of tears and fists flying. NOBODY wanted a piece of the big man and he turned to me with tears streaming and said "Coach, we're running those again"- I have never seen anything like it.
He, and every other kid on the team, ran 100% for another 10 reps. Not one complaint, kids were puking and crying- I din't even have to take the whistle out of my mouth to yell at them. It was great.
To answer your question- YES, we do some tough drills in the offseason but at some point the tough kids will find it in themselves and bring the others along with them.
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