Indeed Coach!

ALL of our coaches agreed after seeing this video, actually agreeing is a mild way of putting it, we are very excited.

We can see a positive change after only 2 practices.

Not really surprised to learn you have been doing it this way all along Coach!

Luc

what you are about to see

Or saw in all the other threads about it.

Saw the video the other day and as the DC of our 12-13 year old team I decided we would teach this method. Introduced it earlier this week to a few coaches and players here and there and went full bore with it on Friday when we went into full pads.

I explained to the kids that this was the method utilized by the Super Bowl Champ Seattle Seahawks and they picked it up pretty quickly. I created 5 drills from the video: Hawk Tackle, Hawk Roll Tackle, Profile/Pec Tackle, The Pursuit/Closing Drill and Also the Open Field DB/LB Drill with the Dummy.

I am excited about this method and the new drills. I find it to be an easy teach with very simple and easy to remember keys. Near Hip/Pec, Eyes to Thighs, Wrap+Squeeze, Drive for 5 and Roll! Can't get any easier than that!

Great Stuff!

Or saw in all the other threads about it.

I guess since I only follow like 3 or 4 boards on DC, I never know what I am missing ... 😎

I guess since I only follow like 3 or 4 boards on DC, I never know what I am missing ... 😎

🙂

Awesome Stuff Coach. I saw the preview of this on my hudl and can now share this full versions link to my team.

Apprecieated.

Any reports from the field on how this method works with freshman and below? 

I'm a 'head across the front' kind of guy, so I'm a little skeptical as to how effective it is when the defense doesn't have the upper body strength of an NFL defensive back.  Seems like it has a high potential to turn into an 'arm tackle' attempt.  I'm still a little iffy on the 'Heads Up' tackling program too, but I'll go search for last year's topic on that one.   

Seems like this method would be more vulnerable to a stiff arm with the head across the rear as well.  A quick strike to the near shoulder pad would knock an average sized defender out of the runner's path.  Going down from a stiff arm with the 'head across the front' still gives the player a chance at tripping the ball carrier up.

I had a linebacker who naturally tackled this way last year, but had to come out after every hard tackle due to the back of the helmet/head striking the ground hard.  Big, strong, vicious linebacker, and was more than strong enough to control the weight of the helmet, but still missed a lot of action due to this type of tackling.  It was way safer for the ball carrier though, because they always landed on top of my linebacker!  🙁

We have tackled pretty close to this for many years and have always been considered a pretty good tackling team ... I will admit that I have always taught the head across the bow method for helmet placement but I must add that we rarely got that part right ... in fact, during drills my kids would almost always put their head on the wrong side (the back side) and you would hear me telling them over and over and over ... but over the years as we were always a strong tackling team, I have softened on the head across teaching ...

I would estimate that less than half the time my players have had their head across ... probably far less than half ... 30% maybe ... but again we have been good tacklers on game day and maybe it was due to all those 'bad' reps with their heads on the wrong side ... lol

We have tackled pretty close to this for many years and have always been considered a pretty good tackling team ... I will admit that I have always taught the head across the bow method for helmet placement but I must add that we rarely got that part right ... in fact, during drills my kids would almost always put their head on the wrong side (the back side) and you would hear me telling them over and over and over ... but over the years as we were always a strong tackling team, I have softened on the head across teaching ...

I would estimate that less than half the time my players have had their head across ... probably far less than half ... 30% maybe ... but again we have been good tacklers on game day and maybe it was due to all those 'bad' reps with their heads on the wrong side ... lol

I still use head across when the situation calls for it.  Be very careful when teaching hawk tackling that they understand that when a big FB type is barralling away at a 45 degree angle and you are coming from the inside, head on the backside and wrap is VERY difficult, and they will miss the tackle if they don't get shoulder contact and are able to wrap completely.  The runner will simply run thru the arms, they younger they are the more difficult HAWK tackling is, they aren't using the same force as the older kids so they use tons of arms instead.  They have to know that they still have to use the shoulder into the hip and be going basically harder than the runner to be able to use a hawk on a big runner.  I prefer head across the inside in something like that just like normal.  I still teach dropping the hip and rolling if needed and shoulder into the thighs.  We use all the techniques of hawk tackling but it some situations the head across is the way to go depending on the angle of the runner.

Trip ... no doubt the SHOULDER making contact ... hard, physical contact is very very important ... and we usually talk to our kids about shoulder and chest contact because that is a larger surface ... if the chest and shoulder both make contact usually your head is across ... but very valid point ... I don't get too many tiny tims on the field unless the game has been decided ... but we spend lots of time with our little guys teaching them about how to attack those bigger boys ...

Trip ... no doubt the SHOULDER making contact ... hard, physical contact is very very important ... and we usually talk to our kids about shoulder and chest contact because that is a larger surface ... if the chest and shoulder both make contact usually your head is across ... but very valid point ... I don't get too many tiny tims on the field unless the game has been decided ... but we spend lots of time with our little guys teaching them about how to attack those bigger boys ...

Unforunately for me my team is always tiny tims!!