Spread Offense: Offensive Line Fundamentals & Drills

with Ed Warinner,
Avila University Head Coach;
St. Thomas (FL) TE Coach from 2024 to 2025;
Florida Atlantic University Run Game Coordinator/OL Coach from 2012 to 2024;
University of Michigan Offensive Line Coach from 2017 to 2020;
in 2018, was the only OL in the Big Ten to see all five starters earn all-conference;
Minnesota OL Coach in 2017;
Ohio State University Offensive Coordinator/OL Coach from 2015 to 2016;
Ohio State University Co-Offensive Coordinator from 2012 to 2014;
2x FootballScoop Offensive Line Coach of the Year (2012, 2014);
2014 College Football Playoff National Championship;
Notre Dame OL Coach from 2010 to 2011;
Kansas OC/QB Coach from 2003 - 2004, 2007- 2009;
Illinois OL/RCG Coach from 2005 to 2006;
Air Force OL Coach from 2000 to 2002;
Army OL/DL Coach from 1987 to 1999;
Michigan State LB/DB Coach from 1985 to 1986;
Akron RB Coach in 1984;
played college football for Mount Union (QB)

Maximize the explosiveness of your spread offense with superior run blocking fundamentals.

Ed Warinner delivers the fundamental drill progressions that have proven successful everywhere he's coached: Army, Air Force, Illinois, Kansas and now Notre Dame. These fundamentals and progressions provide key techniques for athletes and coaches at every level; from peewee ball up to the college level.

Warinner teaches and demonstrates:

• Board and chute progressions
• Warm up bag drills
• Stance, punch, fit position and angle blocking fundamentals
• Base reach technique
• Combination blocking
• Cut blocking
• And more!

He explains and demonstrates how these blocking techniques should look at the first level and the second level.

Warinner incorporates on-field demonstration, practice video and marker board into his presentation. The on-field demos are an excellent tool your athletes can use to model their technique. As a coach, you will see how these drills are used in a practice setting with a large group of athletes.

Warinner's approach, fundamentals and techniques will provide you and your team the tools you need to run the ball effectively out of any spread offense.

55 minutes. 2010.

with Ed Warinner,
Avila University Head Coach;
St. Thomas (FL) TE Coach from 2024 to 2025;
Florida Atlantic University Run Game Coordinator/OL Coach from 2012 to 2024;
University of Michigan Offensive Line Coach from 2017 to 2020;
in 2018, was the only OL in the Big Ten to see all five starters earn all-conference;
Minnesota OL Coach in 2017;
Ohio State University Offensive Coordinator/OL Coach from 2015 to 2016;
Ohio State University Co-Offensive Coordinator from 2012 to 2014;
2x FootballScoop Offensive Line Coach of the Year (2012, 2014);
2014 College Football Playoff National Championship;
Notre Dame OL Coach from 2010 to 2011;
Kansas OC/QB Coach from 2003 - 2004, 2007- 2009;
Illinois OL/RCG Coach from 2005 to 2006;
Air Force OL Coach from 2000 to 2002;
Army OL/DL Coach from 1987 to 1999;
Michigan State LB/DB Coach from 1985 to 1986;
Akron RB Coach in 1984;
played college football for Mount Union (QB)

Ed Warinner presents a very detailed and thorough instructional video that will help your lineman become better pass blockers.

Beginning with stance fundamentals, Warinner coaches and teaches his way through:

• Pass blocking fundamentals
• Footwork
• Hand work
• Blitz protection
• Slide protection
• Sprint out protection
• Vertical sets
• And much more!

Using the combat zone system, he shows why moving the defense outside and over the quarterback is essential for keeping the defense out of the quarterback's "launch zone" and creating throwing lanes underneath.

Descriptions and drills showing the significance of the post foot and kick foot positions are a key instrument to ensure your linemen stay square and force the defender to the outside. Other points of emphasis in Warinner's drills include proper steps, punch placement and blow delivery, defeating the spin move and passing off a defender in a twist move.

Every drill shown can be used every week during the season, as well as in the off season to keep your quarterback on his feet and healthy.

Warinner also touches on a unique weight room session that shows how the drills used during practice are also effective weight training workouts.

Warinner does a fantastic job of incorporating video, on-field demonstration and the whiteboard into his presentation to give you a specific and thorough understanding of his spread passing game concepts. His drills will help you fine tune blocking assignments for the spread pass game versus different defensive fronts and blitzes you will see on the field.

This pass blocking approach has been very successful for Warinner, producing some of the most effective offenses in recent college football.

60 minutes. 2010.