Video: How to Break Down Before Making a Tackle

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Learn how to break down before making a tackle in this free video clip on football and get football tips from a coach and improve your playing.

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What we want to talk about right now are some proper techniques for our linebackers and defense backs to use when they are tackling a running back or a receiver. What we want to talk about right now is, when you come up to make a tackle on a running back or a receiver you cannot come running at the player out of control. You have got to come up, be able to break down, get your base set and be ready to then explode in to the running back or the receiver. Now if this guy is running at an angle, we never want this guy to try and come up and try to tackle him to the outside because he is going to be out of control and this guy is going to be able to run around it. If he's coming at an angle we want this guy to meet him out in front of him, square himself up, break down and then make the tackle. It is very important to do that. Also, if you're rushing into the back field and the quarterback takes off running, if you're coming in out of control you're going to whiff when you go into make the tackle. You have got to come in, blitzing in, and be able to break down and make the tackle up into the guy. That is very, very important when trying to make a tackle.

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How to Break Down Before Making a Tackle

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