difference between EDD and Drills for skills?

For us, EDD's are skill drills but they are basic drills for fundamentals. We use EDD's as our warm-up. EDD's and Indy are 2 separate periods.  For example with OL we do Hip to hip, locked in and slide & punch for EDD's then a mixture of other drills for indy time.

Coach, what type of scheme do you guys run? I have a few things we do, but they are pretty gap scheme specific

I'm also interested in your gap scheme EDD's

Ok, here is what we do. These are things we try to do weekly (mainly during our Tuesday indy time), once we are in the rhythm of the season. We are a wing t team, and I try to do a 30 min indy period on Tuesdays. We live scrimmage on Wednesdays and spend Monday on film and walkthroughs. We may do additional indy time on Monday if we feel it is needed that week.

Explosion drills on a sled:

6 point - we are on all fours plus knees, fire out, strike w/hands, roll hips and extend to a belly flop, reset and repeat for a total of 3 reps, then next group in. Once everyone is through, we repeat it from a 4 point then a 3 point stance.

Once we have worked a 3 point fire out and extend, we roll into a basic sled strike and drive, replacing the belly flop with an aggressive leg drive (nothing revolutionary, I know). I have found that this really helps our guys with getting off the ball by progressing in this manner

We will then work our basic blocks against hand shields in the chutes. Reach left/right, down left/right

We then split guards out, everyone else gets additional down and reach work. Guards go and work kick out at varying lengths against the sled and wraps against hand shields. We will also work kicks against hand shields of varying lengths to simulate trap, down and sweep kicks.

We then do a drill that we call the conveyor belt, we will pick a yard line and line up in pairs all the way across. Each kid lines up to work a straight drive block. They have a clearly marked line between them, and the object is to gain ground and win that line. I give them a few seconds, they must drive through each other, no twisting non sense. When the whistle blows, one side slides and the other stays put. This way we get a lot of reps for everyone and a great mix of match ups, no one can hide against weaker comp. We run this for one complete rotation. It is also a great lineman conditioner.

We finish by getting our Varsity o line huddled and I will call down/reach rt/lt. The rest are allowed to line up head up or in any gap along the line. I call a cadence and the line applies the call. It forces us to learn to apply our base rules against any look we may see. It can be rough at first, but the players get very good at fitting everything together. If we can get them to wash down and reach as a seamless unit, then all we have to do is apply a pull and kick and we have punched our hole.

Everything is taught using aiming points. We rep the heck out of a straight drive block, as our goal is to turn everything into that. On reach, we step and attack PS armpit, throw but and back to ball carrier and drive.

On down we aim for the v of the neck if the guy is a penetrator, his back hip if he wants to spin off pressure, or his soft midsection if we can flat have our way with him. We try to eat aiming points.

On kicks, we try to drive our inside shoulder thru the top of the stomach, follow with hands, head in the hole.

Feet fire thru contact on all of these, obviously

The best thing I have done to get kids to run their feet thru contact has been to make our lineman run our youth camp. We let the kids do a kick out drill where a varsity player holds a hand shield and the knock him down onto a bed of pads. Kicks start harping on the little ones about running their feet through contact to really light up the player holding the bag. I kid you not, I have seen more improvement and more light bulbs go off having them do this then any drill work I have had them do.


Hope this helps a little