Developing a Dynamic Tight End

Description

Learn from Nevada OC/TE Coach Derek Sage

What is a Chute Hip drill? It is probably the best way to teach the Gallop Step for a better down block! Keep them low because the low man wins everytime in the game we love so much!

Coach Sage has amazing talks on TE Blocking! O-Line Blocking! and getting those pesky lettuce eating, basketball players who pass an wide receivers who hate blocking actually blocking!

Feel confident in running the ball around the edge with better blocking with your TE and WR's!!

Lessons

TIGHT ENDS

1 1. Chute Hip Knock Drill to Teach "GALLOP" steps when blocking down 2:45 2 2. Quad 5:54 3 3. Angle Blocking on Sled 5:19 4 4 Chop and Replace 2:11 5 5. Jab Step Down Block 3:21 6 6. Hook with OLB 6:50 7 7. reach and Bite Counter Drill 2:41 8 8. Triple 5:14 9 9. Stick 4:41 10 10. Drill Video 11:45

BLOCKING

11 BLOCKING - Fit Drill 3:27 12 BLOCKING - Sled & Chutes 3:44 13 BLOCKING - Fit & Drive Drill 2:23 14 BLOCKING - Mirror Drill 4:29 15 BLOCKING - Slots on Screens 1:08

RECEIVERS

16 Break Points on Post-Corner 2:30 17 Edge Break Drills 4:31 18 Speed Cuts 3:46

The Coach

Clinic of Champions

Max Millers Clinic of Champions

After serving as the TE coach at UCLA, Derek Sage joins the University of Nevada as the offensive coordinator/tight ends coach.

Derek Sage joined the UCLA football staff in February of 2018 as tight ends coach. He came to Westwood after working as the outside receivers coach at Washington State in 2017. WSU's passing offense ranked second in the nation (366.8) and the Cougars led the Pac-12 in several offensive categories, including passing yards per game (366.8), touchdown passes (37) and total passing yards (4,769).

This past season, Caleb Wilson had a season to remember as he led the team in receptions (60) and receiving yards (965), the highest totals ever by a Bruin tight end. Wilson finished the regular season leading the nation's FBS tight ends in receptions per game (5.0), receiving yards per game (80.4) and total receiving yards (965). He ranked tied for 10th among all Pac-12 receivers in receptions per game and was tied for fifth among all league receivers with an 80.4 receiving yards per game average. Wilson was selected by the Arizona Cardinals in the 2019 NFL Draft.

Prior to coming to the Pac-12, Sage served three seasons as the wide receivers coach at the University of Toledo. In 2016, the Rockets ranked seventh in the NCAA in total offense (517.8 yards/game). Sage guided a receiving group that saw two players, who each caught 10 or more touchdown passes, earn All-Mid-American Conference. First-team selection Cody Thompson ranked 10th nationally with an average of 107.4 receiving yards per game. In his three seasons at Toledo, the Rockets combined for a 28-10 record, went to three bowl games, winning two, and improved from 234.2 passing yards per game in 2014 to 322.8 in 2016. He mentored seven all-conference receivers during his time at Toledo.

Sage arrived at Toledo following a four-year stint as the wide receivers coach at Wyoming from 2010-2013. In 2013, he mentored Cowboy wide receiver Robert Herron, who finished his career as the school's No. 4 all-time leader in touchdown catches with 20 and later played in the 2014 Reese's Senior Bowl and was drafted by Tampa Bay. Sage coached four all-conference receivers during his time in Laramie.

Prior to his work at Wyoming, Sage was the wide receivers coach at New Hampshire from 2005-09, where he worked with Chip Kelly. UNH earned bids to the FCS playoffs in each of Sage's five seasons with the program, advancing to the quarterfinals in 2005, 2006, 2008 and 2009.

While at New Hampshire, Sage coached some of the most productive receivers in school history, including All-American David Ball. Ball set New Hampshire receiving records for career receptions (304) and career receiving yards (4,655). He also became the NCAA career leader in TD receptions with 58, breaking Jerry Rice's previous record of 51 at Mississippi Valley State.

Sage arrived at New Hampshire from the University of Nevada, where he helped coach the defensive backfield as a graduate assistant in 2003 and the wide receivers as a grad assistant in 2004. In 2002, he served as offensive line and tight ends coach at Moorpark College in California where the team led the Western States Conference in rushing (286.7 yards per game).

A native of Sparks, Nev., Sage played tight end for Sacramento City College for two years (1998-99), helping win conference and bowl championships at the junior college level. He completed his college career at CSUN, where he earned two letters at tight end in 2000 and 2001 before securing his bachelor's degree in kinesiology in 2002.