Youth Offensive Line Fundamentals

On many youth football teams the Offensive Line is one of the most neglected units and least popular positions to play.  In this course bundle Coaches Clint Schumacher and Michael O'Gorman cover a number of topics that make playing O-Line fun while improving your players aggression and ability to block.  

Coach Schumacher (Offensive Line Fundamentals for 4th to the 8th Grade)

- Mind-set – the I Ams

- Accountability

- Match Your Offensive Philosophy

- Flexibility

- Footwork

- Stance (2 point, 3 point, 4 point)

- Splits

- Drills for a Power Scheme

- Drills for a Zone Scheme

- Drills for the Passing Game

- Resources for Further Study

Coach O'Gorman (How to be the Coach Your O-Line Deserves)

- Creating an environment in which players want to get on the O-line rather than off.

- A blocking technique that allows smaller guys to move bigger guys.

- Drills that teach kids block, one on one, in space, and aggressively.

- Ways to incentivize O-line (legal) violence and aggression.

Coach O'Gorman (If that's Zone Blocking, how come it's so Nasty?)

- Our “philosophy” of combo blocking, and how it was introduced to, and taught to, the players, so that combos resulted in two violent and sustained one-on-one blocks.

- How the man one-on-one drills were adapted to teach zone footwork.

- The new scoring systems for the drills.

- The two-on-two combo drill that was added.

- How film was graded to give players even more incentive to stay on blocks.

- More on how to get blocks that are aggressive and nasty.