Inside drill

[VirginiaBlue]

I never played organized football, and not privy to all the practice methods, so bear with me. I read an article in the paper recently about Virginia Tech's "inside drill". 7 on 7 - the OL, a blocking back, and a running back against the DL and LB's. Every play in the drill is a run inside the tackles, no finesse, just blocking and tackling. Open a hole vs plug it. Of course this gets pretty brutal, and while most players dread it, some actually like the competitiveness of it - I guess especially if you are whipping your man.

I'm sure some of you ballers are familiar with it. Does UK use it?

[justacatsfan]

Its just a variation of 7 on 7. Uk uses it, actually pretty much every organized FB team above HS probaly does.



You can run it a variety of ways with no OL or DL and adding WR's and DB's.

[johnkyblue]

justacatsfan is talking about passing skeletons, which are way different.

I haven't seen an inside game version of passing skeletons at practice. Sounds nasty and something I'd only do as coach when I had too many players and needed to get some hurt.

[T75]

johnkyblue wrote: Sounds nasty and something I'd only do as coach when I had too many players and needed to get some hurt.
John, I don't think we're liable to see this situation at UK anytime in the foreseeable future.:cool:

[justacatsfan]

I was saying there is several versions of 7 on 7's. You can do only lines and rb/lb, you can do the passing with no lines, I've even seen a mixture of both.

Each school has some form of an inside drill. It could be as few as 2 on 2 or 3 or as high as 7 on 7. I've been to @ 30 different programs practices and @ 12 different FB camps and every place does it. With pretty much every member of a programs staff coming from a different backgroud they mix/match and tweak to their liking.

No idea what kind UK's staff uses because I'm 600 miles away now and wont get to attend any practices this spring but last year I think I saw the 2 on 3 and 5 on 4/5.

[justacatsfan]

just read JDrums report.

UK did 9 on 7 today. Which probally means they didnt have the 2 Wr's and the 4 DB's.