Maximizing Your Defensive Circuit Drills – Turnover, tackling, and block destruction drills can improve your defensive play.

Every year we try to create themes for our team that we can use throughout the year to refocus our players no matter how our team is performing. We are also always looking for ways to maximize reps and be more efficient in practice time. One of the ways we do this is our SU Defensive Circuit (See Diagram). Defensive Circuit DrillOn defense, it is important to remember how important the fundamentals are, regardless of what scheme you are trying to run. Our coaches believe that our players will be good at what we emphasize. One of the best drills we do on defense is our defensive circuit. We don’t focus on many stats with our players. However, we do emphasize creating turnovers, tackling and block destruction.  We know if we create turnovers, if we are the best defense in the league at getting off blocks, and the best team at tackling, we are going to be a very good defense. The