Defensive line get off – The key to winning on the line of scrimage

By Eric Gerlach, Defensive Line Coach Cabrillo College     During spring and summer, when your team is not in pads, teams seems to put a lot of effort in 7 on 7’s and might overlook line work. Yet you always hear coaches saying "the game is won on the line.”  Spending time in the spring and summer working on getting off the ball will make an enormous difference come fall.  By working these drills, your players will be faster off of the ball, and will be knocking the offensive line back. Getting Off the Ball     One key to getting off the line of scrimmage is being quicker and faster than the man standing across the line. As we all know, you cannot count on always having guys that are faster than the O-line, unless you work on it. Training keys to work on are triggering aggressively on movement, staying low, and knocking the offensive line back.     Defensive line drills