Quitman Harrison

Why I don’t love this drill: - “Parallel Feet” – does not produce force when hitting or tackling and encourages stopping your feet and “catching” the runner. Imagine if a running back at contact got his base wide and started chopping his feet parallel—would he break any tackles? - Tackling with force comes from decelerating with a “Gather Step” (staggered feet) and then re-accelerating just before contact by driving force into the ground. - “Head Up” tackle. Only in rare cases should a defender find himself head-up on a runner. 90% will be some sort of leverage tackle. You can even see in this clip he tries to get his helmet to the side, because head-up is unnatural. I recently did a breakdown on Demario Davis the 1st clip was as close to perfect of a “Heads Up” tackle in the hole as you will see.

Why I don’t love this drill: - “Parallel Feet” – does not produce force when hitting or tackling and encourages stopping your feet and “catching” the runner. Imagine if a running back at contact got his base wide and started chopping his feet parallel—would he break any tackles? - Tackling with force comes from decelerating with a “Gather Step” (staggered feet) and then re-accelerating just before contact by driving force into the ground. - “Head Up” tackle. Only in rare cases should a defender find himself head-up on a runner. 90% will be some sort of leverage tackle. You can even see in this clip he tries to get his helmet to the side, because head-up is unnatural. I recently did a breakdown on Demario Davis the 1st clip was as close to perfect of a “Heads Up” tackle in the hole as you will see.

The psychology of training is extremely important. The belief. The mindset. Why do you think some coaches that may have vanilla/subpar programming still are valued and get results? It matters.