Practice last night was a hoot. After warm-ups and circuit drills, we ended up running the D-line and backers, versus the O-line and backs. It was mainly for the offense to work hard on their blocks, pulls and traps (something they were extremely weak at last season), but the defense had a great time mixing it up in there with a whole lot of bumping, pushing and general all around manhandling to get our stunts off. It was a shame we couldn’t go full out.. as that drill would have been a blast that way. Hopefully Sunday will cooperate with us enough so that we can get outside and really start mauling!
I have to give our O-line guys some props, things are looking much better on that side of the ball this year. It was pretty rare last year that an O-line guy would actually make a block on us linebackers, unless we were running stunts, and even then we were often missed. But yesterday, in just the short half hour we ran the drill, I can recall at least 4 occasions when I wasn’t even on a stunt that someone managed to get out to me and put on a block. Not that it stopped me of course, but it’s still impressive to see them big girls moving like they should!
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