HERO TO ZERO IN ONE PLAY: Drilling the Defensive Back for Confidence

by Tony Brinson
Tight Ends Coach, Columbia University
American Football Monthly July 2010 Issue Online

While I am now coaching tight ends at Columbia University, I have spent many seasons as a defensive backs coach. If anyone has been a secondary coach or played the position before, you are intimately familiar with those times when, in the final seconds of a game, an intercepted pass can “seal the deal” for your team or where a deep bomb can spell misery. The positive end result of those times is a combination of competitiveness, but more importantly, reliance on solid fundamentals. I have...Login to Read More

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