The Color Drill: Helping Linebackers & Defensive Backs Maximize Their Drops
by Rob SenorHead Coach, Shaker Heights High School, (OH)
Over the years our defensive staff has successfully identified areas our defense needed to improve on. After identifying these weaknesses we have the ability to think of some innovative drills to help our players improve in the specified areas. This past season we identified that while getting into their zone pass drops, our linebackers and defensive backs were not reading the backfield action and the quarterback.
In order to improve in this area we came up with our ‘Color