Wide Receivers - Week 1

STANCE & START: What is the best stance & start

• Inside foot up, feet shoulder width apart, front knee over toes, chest over knees, forward lean

• Outside foot up, feet shoulder width apart, front knee over toes, chest over knees, forward lean

• Inside foot up, feet shoulder width apart, front knee over toes, chest over knees, chest up and out

ALIGNMENT

• Top of the numbers - outside breaking routes

  Bottom of the numbers - inside breaking routes

• Top of the numbers - outside breaking routes

  Bottom of the numbers - inside breaking routes

BREAKS: 90° Breaks?

• 1.) decel. w/ inside foot  2.) Plant & drive with inside step 3.) plant & pivot w/ outside foot

• 1.) decel. w/ inside foot  2.) plant & pivot w/ outside foot  3.) Plant & drive with inside step

• 1.) plant & pivot w/ outside foot

  2.) decel. w/ inside foot

  3.) Plant & drive with inside step

BREAKS: 45° Breaks?

• 1.) plant & pivot 45° w/ outside foot  2.) Plant & drive the opposite 45° with inside step

• 1.) Plant & drive the opposite 45° with inside step

  2.) plant & pivot 45° w/ outside foot

• 1.) plant & pivot 45° w/ outside foot  2.) Plant & drive the opposite 90° with inside step

BREAKS: Throttle Down?

• 1.) decel. w/ inside foot  2.) Plant & drive with inside step 3.) plant parallel w/ outside foot & pivot downhill

• 1.) decel. w/ inside foot  2.) plant parallel w/ outside foot & pivot downhill  3.) Plant & drive with inside step

• 1.) plant parallel w/ outside foot & pivot downhill 2.) decel. w/ inside foot 3.) Plant & drive with inside step

RELEASES: Speed Release

• play low & beat the db with speed

• play high & beat the db with strength

RELEASES: Single Move?

• fake one way & fake other & go back the initial way

• fake one way & go another

RELEASES: Double Move?

• Fake one way & go the other

• Fake in the direction you want to go

RELEASES: Read Release?

• Quick, Choppy steps, to read the DB’s technique and then take the best release

• Slow , Long steps, to read the DB’s technique and then take the best release

RELEASES: Diamond/Squirt release?

• Start the db upfield outside. Get hips turned & dip back on top of the db

• Start the db upfield outside. Get hips turned & dip back underneath the db