Drills Report – Building Pocket Awareness

by Mike McCarty
Offensive Coordinator Holmes Community College (MS)
American Football Monthly October 2011 Issue Online

We believe that pocket awareness is one of the most important quarterback skills to develop. I did say develop. We don’t believe that most people are born with the ability to stand in the pocket and wait for people to run into them. We spend fifteen minutes a week during the season working on pocket awareness.

On Monday, we spend five minutes re-enacting the pocket awareness situations that the quarterback should have handled more efficiently from the previous game. On Tuesday, w...Login to Read More

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