That’s right the A stands for agility. Playing Wide Receiver
and then becoming a Wide Receiver coach; coaching Wide Receivers is home. It’s
where I found a lot of peace. As I grew in this profession, I became a QB guy
and while I love it there nothing is like coaching the DirtyBoyz as we called
them. I want to talk about three things I focus on
teaching the Wide Receivers on a weekly basis and drill during the season, in the next few posts. The
ABC’s of WR play and yes, the A stands for Agility!
One of the Best Wide Receiver coaches in the game is
Keith Williams, former Nebraska WR coach and he says “
Don't master the
route, master the break. The routes change, but the breaks stay the same.” So
when it comes to agility work, everything is focused on mastering the breaks
and getting off the ball.
Agility work starts with the foot
cadence. Getting the wide receivers to activate or warm-up their feet is
important before we get to the drill of drills red light / green light.
Route Geometry as Williams calls it must be mastered during
our red light / green light drill. You know the math teacher in me loves the
name as well, LOL. All the breaks on the Route tree are 45, 90 or you run 180 degrees.
Master them.
The first clip shows how to coach and work a lot of wideouts
on this concept at the same time. Clip
taken from Coach Joe Price III, who is now the Director of Player Personnel for
UTSA.
This clip shows what the drill looks like in an in-season
practice. This clip is brought to us by Coach Pat McCann, wideout coach at Eastern
Washington University
The last thing we work on when it comes to agility is
releases including Diamond and Foot Fire. Clip here shows Coach Donte Ellington
of ACU in Texas walking through his wideouts on release.
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in Part 2....
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