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Youth Football Drills for the Blitzing Outside Linebacker

By Coach
Mar
01
Our youth football drills for outside linebacker blitzing are coordinated with our defensive ends.  In most cases when we blitz our outside linebackers our defensive end will automatically assume the containment assignment that the OLB would usually have. We blitz our OLB into two spots and each is labeled by the gap we want him to [...]
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Youth Football Drills for the Blitz – Practice for the Inside Linebacker

By Coach
Feb
08
Here is one of my favorite youth football drills for practicing the role of the Inside Linebacker during a blitz. Our inside linebackers are our most involved players in our total blitz package. These players have to be aware of not only their own blitzing responsibilities but also the blitzing directions of all of the [...]
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