Creating an Effective Practice Plan for the 3-3 Box
A couple things about our practices:
1. We tackle on bags
2. Inside Run is on cans
3. We haven't run a full team segment in two years
Explaining a few of the finer points of our practice:
Hawk Tackle Coaching Points
Like many things we do, we teach this as a progression; players start on their knees, get to a two point stance, and eventually perform the drill live. This is all done with players holding bags. Eventually, when players fully understand the emphasis of Hawk Tackle (Inside Out, Contact with Shoulder), we start to include cutbacks in the live, four cone angle tackle drill.
For the most part, the DL will never participate in the live, four cone angle tackle drill. Instead, they will begin the progression (knees, two point) and finish with a Hawk Roll tackle on a tackle ring during the final step of their block destruction progression.
- Knees: Hawk Tackle (Drill: One up/one down; ball carrier step left or right)
1. Eyes through the thighs
2. Wrap and squeeze
3. Drive for five
-2 point: Hawk Roll (Drill: One up/one bent; roll to side of leverage; i.e. R foot up, roll L)
1. Eyes through the thighs
2. Wrap and squeeze
3. Roll
- Live: Hawk Tackle (4 cone angle)
- Live: Hawk Roll (4 cone angle)
- Live: Profile (4 cone angle with bags)
1. Attack near pec
2. Wrap
3. Drive for five
Block Destruction Progression on a One-Man Sled
BDSD Spill, Pass Rush, 5-tech Key Drill
Emphasis: Thumbs up, eyes up; rub your ribs
Step #1: Hips and Hands (no step; focus on hips/hands + hat/hand placement)
Step #2: Lock out/get off (start with hands on sled; maintain wide base with feet hot; finish with get off of the day)
Step #3: Put it all together (from depth for LB's; reduction step for DL; work lever/spill concept with LB's)
In our 3-3 stack, our $'s are the adjusters. When a TE shows up, they play a 9-tech, making it essential that they understand the intricacies of both BDSD and Pass Rush. These players break from their positional group and head to the DL Indy for 5 minutes a day.
We put one player inside of the ring, and another in front of the defender. On command, OL steps down, defender steps down and allows his hands (strike of the o/s part of the OL) to take him to the spill. Defender runs a tight circle and gets back to the ball.
Pass Drop Progression
1. Single Hip Toe
2. Double Hip Toe (video says Pass Progression)
3. 2 Cone Cheat
4. Single Hip Cheat
5. Middle Cheat
Blitz Review
See my previous post: coachhuey.com/thread/77493/stack-field-boundary-pressure-package
Inside Run
We run the drill with two tackles, a QB and a RB. On average, we were able to fit 40 plays in 10 minutes. When we use to do this live against our OL, we would maybe get 20 plays in that same timeframe. It was a nightmare.
1. 10 PP Zone R/L vs. our 3-man front
2. 10 PP Zone R/L vs. our 4-man front
3. 10 PP One-back Power R/L vs. our 3-man front
4. 10 PP One-back Power R/L vs. our 4-man front
5. 11 PP Zone Strong R/L vs. our 5-man front
6. 11 PP Zone Weak R/L vs. our 5-man front
7. 11 PP One-back Power Strong vs. our 5-man front
8. 11 PP One-back Power Weak vs. our 5-man front
9. 21 PP Power Strong vs. our 5-man front
10. 21 PP Power Weak vs. our 5-man front
Perimeter Run
This is the time that we would show the players any unique weekly runs, i.e. Jet Sweep, Power Read, Speed Option, etc.
7 on 7
Never carded. Against whatever our offense has installed. We do this at breakneck speed, going hash to hash, asking the offense to change personnel and formation as much as possible. We mix our base coverage and our blitzing coverage as much as possible.
Let me know if you have any questions. I'd be happy to go further in depth on some of our drills.
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