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Home Magazine Issues August 2008 The Winning Edge: Preparing D-Linemen for Game Day

The Winning Edge: Preparing D-Linemen for Game Day

Mike Waufle and Ray Hamilton know defensive line play. Between the two of them, they have a total of 49 years of coaching experience at the Division I level and professional levels of football. Among those in their tutelage are the likes of Andre Tippett, Russell Maryland and Michael Strahan. So it’s only fitting that the two guru’s of defensive line play collaborated on producing a scouting form called the “Winning Edge” which they give to each of their players during game week. Actually, Hamilton concocted the idea when he was with the Patriots in the mid 1990’s, when Waufle would make routine trips east from UCLA to talk football. Although the entire “Winning Edge” form is available through AFM, both coaches- Waufle the defensive line coach with the Super Bowl Champion New York Giants and Ray Hamilton with the Atlanta Falcons- talked about some of the main components

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