Tag: DB Drills

MQ Quick Hits Ep. 15 – Expanding the Vision of Your DBs

Game like drills for your DBs.

In this clinic, MQ explains how to use game-like scenarios in your drills to create an expanded peripheral vision for your young DBs. This drill also adds a RB to help the DBs understand RPOs. The QB’s shoulders (intentions) are also discussed. Finally, the departure speed and where routes break off can all be crucial to understanding the chaos that is defensive football. In order to be elite, you need to be great in chaos. MQ helps.

For more drills and clinics like this, make sure to visit MQ’s YouTube Channel. Plus, make sure to bookmark MQ’s DB Resource Page. Everything you need in one place.

 

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MQ’s DB Resources

A comprhensive collection of MQ’s DB technique videos, clinics, and articles.

Much like MQ’s Link Book, this blog post has everything you need to implement Quarters coverage and understand the WHY behind how to teach it (and put it in your scheme). Starting with a brand new Quick Hits on the Slide technique and ending with a mini-clinic on what a safety “step-off” looks like, this page has everything you need. As more content is added to the main site pertaining to this topic I will add links here. So bookmark and enjoy!

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MQ Quick Hits Ep. 8 – The Slide Technique

The latest edition of Quick Hits discusses the use of the slide (also known as a shuffle) technique. Used from an open stance, the slide technique is an essential technique for DBs that play in Quarters or off-man coverage schemes. The technique allows the DB to read his triangle (WR to QB) and easily flip his hips on vertical routes. Below the video are other resources on the topic that MQ has produced. The design of this “vlog” article is to be a “bookmark” resource for DB coaches.

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Episode #3 — MQ Quick Hits :: “Soft” Press

A 10 minute video on the “Art of X.”

This is a brief video on how to implement “soft” press or “catch” technique into your schemes. The clinic video explains everything from stance and alignment to why soft press is preferred over hard press.

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DB Drills – MQ’s DB Daily Musts

Start your practice with game situation drills.

One of my greatest takeaways from working with Coach Bennett at Baylor was there has to be an extreme attention to detail. When it comes to the fundamentals there cannot be a compromise. Most coaches will agree, the fundamentals are the foundation of any player’s technique. When players get tired or are put in stressful situations on the field, they reduce back to their fundamentals. It is the role of a coach to hold those standards as high as possible, so when fatigue knocks on the door, the players react with sound technique. The drills you run in practice should reflect game situations.

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