Additional Ways to Block for a Kick Return

Video Transcript

"Hi, this is Sean Hobson for Expert Village. What we want to talk about now is during the return one of the most effective things you can do is to set up a wall of blockers in the direction which you're going to make the return. If you're going to make a middle return you're wall will drop back and you'll stay in the middle of the field and you'll let your returner come up the middle. If you're setting up a right or left return you want to have the momentum of the blockers on one side or the other. Once the kick is made we want to drop back and find out where our return man is. We want to be looking for and finding our return man. Once we find our return man we want to stop about 10 yards in front of him. When he catches it or right before he catches it he's going to yell to you, "Go!". That's when you'll be picking up the blockers and you're going to go forward. When you set up this wall, you want to remember to stay pretty close. We don't want to be spread out all the way across. That will leave alot of room for people to run through. So, we want to stay pretty tight so nobody runs through our wall. Notice how we're going to break down really low. These guys are going to be running at full speed where we have kind of stopped. You want to drop down really low so when you hit these guys you can stand them up. They'll be coming with a lot of momentum so you want to hit them and stand them up. Also, you can try to use their momentum to try to get them to go by. Once they come to you, you can pop them and turn them at once to keep them twisted and hopefully, you can pancake them around. Those are the important parts about setting up a wall on the return."