SMU OL Tempo and Scheme with Coach Stephen Sorrells

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Drills Chat

Q1: What are the Every Day Drills (EDD) for your position? (post pics if possible) #txhsfbchat
Q2: Why is this your EDD? What is the purpose of it, and why is it necessary to be worked every day? #txhsfbchat
Q3: What are other important drills you use that are not used every day? (post pics, please) #txhsfbchat
Q4: How do you schedule your drills for each day of practice? each week? #txhsfbchat
Q5: How have you adapted the drills you use to fit the needs of the players and the program? #txhsfbchat
Q6: How often do you change your drills to work the same skill, but with a different approach? #txhsfbchat
Q7: Where do you go to find drills and how do you decide if they are useful to your players and program? #txhsfbchat

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Defensive Back Drills

(Skills and Drills) By: Romison Saint-Louis EDD’s Big Hips: Down a line feet together hips rotating side to side. 180 degrees. Emphasis on turning it all the way and jumping high. Quick Hips: Same as big hips but emphasis on speed. Foot Fire (over a line): Stepping over and back down a line without touching…

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Shopping for Nutrition…a virtual trip with Coach Garson Skelton

You don’t have to eat perfect, just not bad. Coach Garson Skelton of Harker Heights High School in Killeen, TX educates us on easy ways for our athletes to eat better.

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Strength and Conditioning with Coach Garson Skelton

1. How do you help educate your athletes on nutrition and eating habits?
2. When it comes to supplements what do you tell your athletes? For/Against? Which ones?
3. When it comes to speed/agility days, what do you feel like is the most important? or the most over looked?
4. You can only use 2 exercises for the entirety of offseason, what do you use?
5. Aside from getting Stronger and more Conditioned, what other training aspects do you value in off-season?

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Screens

Q1: What makes a screen effective? #txhsfbchat
Q2: How many route options do you include in your screens? #txhsfbchat
Q3: What rules do you have for your QB in your screens? #txhsfbchat
Q4: How do you practice running and defending screens? Please feel free to include drills #txhsfbchat
Q5: In your Base D, what are your rules when recognizing a screen? #txhsfbchat
Q6: Do you base your screen game plan on your opponent? Or is it a large part of your offensive philosophy? #txhsfbchat
Q7: If caught in a blitz on the screen, what are your coaching points to the DL and LBs? #txhsfbchat

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Running the Zone

Q1: What are your reasons for using or not using a zone running scheme? #txhsfbchat
Q2: When teaching the OL steps, do you teach a lateral step or a drop step and why? #txhsfbchat
Q3: What are the rules for your running back to read the blocking in front of him? #txhsfbchat
Q4: When defending a zone scheme, what do you stress to your DL? #txhsfbchat
Q5: How do you teach your D to confuse the QB on the give/pull read? #txhsfbchat
Q6: What are your complementary plays off of your zone scheme? #txhsfbchat
Q7: We usually say when all else fails, run zone…when your zone runs fail, what is your answer? #txhsfbchat

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Installing RPOs

Great information inside! Ranging from QB Read drills, route concepts, OL work, and coaching points to help install these plays into your offense.

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