How to Shed a Block & Tackle in Football

Video Transcript

"Hi this is Sean Hobson for Expert Village. What we want to talk about right now are the proper mechanics for our linebackers, our defensive back or our linemen to come up and make a proper hit. What we want to focus on right now is our linebackers or defensive backs coming up and taking on a blocker in order to make the tackle. One of the most important things that you have got to do is just as we talked about breaking down and exploding into the tackle, you must do the same thing into a blocker. You can never let the blocker come out and dominate you and keep you from making a tackle. So what we want our linebackers and our defensive backs to do is when they are coming up against a blocker we want them to explode in, hit that blocker and get them out of the way, then they are going to have to break down a second time and explode into the tackle. So you've got two jobs now. You don't just have to wrap up and tackle a guy, you have got to get one out of the way first of all and it all requires getting down in a good low stance, initiating the contact and getting him out of the way. This is what it looks like at full speed. Set, hut. Good, good. He sheds the block, he gets him out of the way and then he finishes off the tackle. And that's the proper technique to do it if you're a linebacker or a defensive back."