Secrets to Great Defensive Line Play

The defensive line must win the battle in the trenches to stop the run and rush the passer.

In this excellent video, Haley shows you drills you can use to develop complete defensive linemen who can stop the run and rush the passer. With a philosophy of developing linemen through daily drills, Haley explains 12 drills that provide results. Each drill is demonstrated using practice footage first and then followed with game footage to show the results of playing with great technique.

Coach Haley's daily drills follow a progression that concentrates on the feet, hips, and hands. Beginning with stance and start drills, the video progresses through hip explosion drills and finishes with hand technique drills. The video also provides separate drills and explanation to differentiate between stance and hand techniques in passing downs versus run downs.

Run Defense Drills
Using run stopping drills, you will learn how to coach your players to dip, rip, and run to avoid the block, redirect pursuit to find the ball faster, use hands and hips to explode through offensive linemen to get vertical into backfield and develop hand eye coordination to steer opponent to gain maximum leverage to make more tackles.

Pass Rush Drills
In the pass rush drills, Coach Haley adjusts the stance to quicken the takeoff, tightens edge pursuit to shorten distance to the quarterback and the ball, teaches head fakes to help open gaps and emphasizes hand violence to push your opponent off balance. All of these pass rush techniques will help you teach the art of the All-American pass rusher.

This video is great for coaches at all levels but especially high school coaches and above.

Order now and provide your athletes with the same training that created a stellar defensive line at LSU accounting for 39 tackles for loss and 15.5 sacks in 2010.

101 minutes. 2011.