I just finished Coach Dave Cisar’s Developing a Smothering DefenseDVD. This is another DVD from Winning Youth Football’s Step by Step Plan Series. This DVD focuses on the 6-2 Wide Tackle Defense and the Viper 4-4 Defense. I ran a 6-2 defense last year and I found Coach Cisar’s DVD very helpful. I will implement his wide tackle variation and also implement a the 4-4 for my best players. If you are a rookie youth football coach or an experienced youth football coach looking for a great youth defense, I highly recommend this DVD.
Here’s a quick summary of the DVD;
- Setting Defensive Priorities & Schemes
- How to Tackle & Drills
- Tackling Games & Competition
- Base 6-2 Wide Tackle Formation
- Position Drills
- Formation Recognition & Adjustments
- 6-2 Blitzes and Stunts
- 6-2 Defense Implementation
- Viper 4-4 Defense
- 4-4 Stunts and Blitz Packages
- Offensive Formation Recognition
- Coaching Points
This is a great addition to your youth football coaching library. I rate this DVD a 4/5.
Good luck this season.
1 Comment
September 30, 2008 at 10:50 am
Hey coach,
I wanted to ask you a quick question regarding how to defend the sweep. Last week no matter what we did the team had a stud that kept getting around us. This week the team we face runs a double tight delaware formation and they run alot of sweeps out of this formation. I was thinking of running a 5-2 cover 2 and putting my best two tacklers in those two shallow safety positions splitting the difference between the Ends and the corners with the two safeties to form a triangle to defend the sweep. The question I wanted to ask is what should I do with my ends. Should I crash them or is there someone I should have them key like the opposite running back in that delaware formation (3 running backs side to side in the back field.) This way if that running back comes to his side that’s his key. Please let me know what you think.