Year 5 with First Down Training! Routes, Releases & 1v1s

Welcome to my life. Welcome to my life. Yeah On the bright side. Yeah, this music here became my only lifeline Crazy i'm not in my right mind On the bright side. Yeah Hey Yeah, one leg out that brand new benz way Hometown asking am I rich? Repetition from my chest. That's a bench press Seeing more behind the frame future driver feel the shake thinking ain't nobody feel the way I do But someone gotta feel the same. Yeah On the bright side. Yeah, this music here became my only lifeline Think i'm going crazy. I'm not in my right mind. Yeah Welcome to my life. Welcome to my life. Yeah Welcome to my life. Welcome to my Time for that first down training again. We've done it every year for what we five years I think I think five years although we missed a year. So I think this is your fourth Time actual one. So yeah, we've been doing first down training with coach grant for five years We still really like what he has to say how he coaches just excellent route running techniques and and releases So today i'm gonna get better at those route running going into sophomore year. We got spring football starts on monday So it's actually perfect timing. So we got this weekend to work on these routes and then monday spring football morning guys How we doing? What's up? Great to see you, man. Yeah, of course, man. Why do you always bring the coal when you come? I don't know I swear man. It's always time every time. Yeah, what's up cj. Micah. Nice to meet you, man Cool, man, that's murphy. So I gotta sit All right, let's get it going Hey guys, appreciate everybody coming out Wait Left right left Right left right good right arms moving right left right Dick Yeah, yeah, that's it There we go Nice and easy Angle Go Sell what Vertical right state, right? So what goes into that is obviously I need to have good speed going into the break It's not so much about like you need to run as hard as you can. It's more so about like a control Like where it's like 90 to 95 percent, but it's fast enough to sell a fade But also like slow enough to have enough control So our speed ties into it our body language obviously sells verticals So whenever i'm running a route what I don't want to do is right before i'm about to cut I raise up with my chest and my chin because that also serves to slow me down And a lot of receivers will slow their speed or raise up to make this cut We obviously want to keep like my chin down chest slightly ahead of your waist So my pad level looks like i'm trying to run past the dv It's either getting the back pedal or turn its hips and open up And then the last one is the one a lot of people struggle with and that's our strides right which is what this first One is going to work on So a lot of guys like let's say I got a cut at the gray right here A lot of guys to prepare for the cut to make the cut easier They come off the ball with great strides and then right before they're about to cut they start to shorten their strides And then they cut and again the shortening of the strides slows you down and it makes the cut easier My goal is to get all you guys to be able to keep the same strides from the start of the route To the end of the route and I let the cut change the direction Change my direction rather than have an indicator of slowing my speed raising my pad level or shortening my strides To slow me down and make the cut be the thing that slows me down this first drill This is going to be working on like a stick cut. So this is for an out route Now you could run an out route because everybody knows a speed cut Like where you kind of round it. This is not a speed cut So this is more like we have man So if he's like inside shade for example, and I gotta run an out route I come off the ball You open up with me this way and I gotta make a cut on an out route on a speed out You kind of round it right you break off of like let's say your third inside step and you round it up Why is that bad versus man? You could undercut you know what i'm saying always gonna be real tight to my hips, right? So the man covers the break changes a little bit to where he's on my hip I stick And I gotta push and get straight out. It's okay if we round it maybe a little bit But for the most part it's got to be flat right foot up Has nothing to do with where the quarterback is because i'm going to be right here and when we are inside foot's up But just for the steps of the route or the steps of the drill So our right foot's going to be up i'm going to say go left they go three steps The third step is the stick Step or the stick cut So I come off the ball set go it's one two, three, one, two, three, one, two, three Coming out right here. Got you guys on an outback. Yep six All right Hey, so Few extra steps on the second one good on the steps person is good on the steps The reason why you took five steps is because you know what i'm saying? Don't worry about it. Like I don't need anybody to try to get It's just these things right so what you're doing is you're going one two So this back foot drags So that's your first step two, three, four, five and that's where the extra step's going to be right and if I drag and I get stuck So it's like one two here so I can just push open up and my foot's inside my frame So I don't need to drag and just get out set go Six three steps good walking step not bad good job. Okay If I had my outside receiver running a hitch and the slot was running a quarter does anybody know what that passing concept is called Smash right love that versus cover two because the corner stays with the hitch And then you have that corner route now the thing about the corner route versus two eye safeties in on smash Is the qb throwing it with touch or on a line? On a line to protect you from the safety. So why I say that is because your head can snap around fast on this corner Okay, left foot's up Which foot is my outside foot right or left? Right foot so I only count the steps that I take with my right foot The reason why we run routes off the steps is as you guys get older like I'm talking college ball Every route versus zone coverage is off the steps because the timing it's no longer go run a 10-yard corner Versus man coverage. You can't work a release and count your steps. So it turns into yardage You have to be able to do both as a receiver because you never know what type of offensive system You're in the more often than not at that level. It's off the steps. Does everybody understand? Okay, so I'm only counting the steps I take with my right foot. So set go do I count that one? Yes, that would be my first outside. Do I count this one? No, so again, it's your third outside step so it's set go one two step Head snaps around i'm throwing this on a line bringing you guys back flat Great job Ready to go That's a wrap of day one of just kind of drills and just going up with the basics tomorrow They will have dbs out here, but doing some live one-on-ones. That'll be fun Keep that chest down no One two It's on Leverage dictates the release So for example, let's say he's outside leverage, this is the first route that we're going to be running We're going to be running a 10 yard out. Okay, so he's outside leverage And i'm running a 10 yard out What release do I want to take fake outside to go back inside? Because think about if he's outside leverage his goal is to not let me run where? Outside so a lot of receivers because they have to run an outside breaking route. They panic right? They see outside shade. They're like, oh crap. He's outside leverage. So they they force it This guy's entire goal is to not let me do that So he's going to get hands on me And even if I release to the outside because he's getting hands and I break to my out route I'm, not going to have enough space for the quarterback to lead me on out Leave me on a corner or like leave it a fade What i'd want to do with my release is i'd want to attack his lever So that release you guys are just working with coach that like three step release That can be good if the db is like maybe two yards away, right? He's got some space with me It could work if he's closer But we're going to be working a situation where he's right up on the ball And we're going to be working a release called the jab step or I call this a wide step And the first step of this release is going to be something called a kick step Kick step. So what's a kick step? Yeah, yeah, so hey and some people will say like that's a false step and there are situations where that is a false step But I like it when you have a close press coverage db when he's outside leverage because it creates a little bit more speed And it allows us to sell the release with my hips because that's what a disciplined db is going to be watching He's going to be watching my head. So if he's outside ----, I got him on 10 yard out I'm, not going to force it. I'm going to attack his leverage. I want to make them think that I am trying to force it Right. So the first step you're going to pretend like there is a plug Behind your front foot even with your back foot. It's just a quick step and you're stepping on the plug So it's here to load up your hips Jab to attack his leverage to get him to move and then I take the inside balls Now whatever I'm versus press What is my goal with this db? What do I want to do with him stack good? I want to stack so my goal is to get him to fight to the outside I want to get my hip right past his hip. Does anybody know what that's called getting? Skinny, yeah, I want to get skinny. So I want to get right past his hip I'm, probably dipping my shoulder so I get over the top of him. So at the top of the rake What's a move I can use that we worked yesterday? I can use a rocker step and get some space and you don't even have to use a rocker step to do something So we're not going to work that situation. We're going to work that situation second The first situation is going to be like let's say I got a db who's really fast. Maybe good technique Maybe I can't stack him. I still want to run the route the same way. This is where receivers panic So let's say we line up here. I give him this jab. Maybe he bites him just a little bit Now when I go to the inside, let's say he plays it And he's right on my hip So I can't just like smooth it out and run something different I still have to run my 10 yard out and he's right next to me. What should I do when I get to 10? Throw by and I got to do what with my hips drop my hips throw by and cut back underneath Now the break is slightly slower than if you were to just cut off a one foot like what we worked on yesterday but We gave the quarterback so much space to the outside because I didn't force the outside release versus outside chain press Set go jab Inside release at 10. Everybody is dropping their hips drop Right before you drop your hips Raise up. Yeah, you feel that attached and all I would say to you think about your chin being down because you're coming up And you go here If you focus on just tucking your chin not to like your chest or anything if you focus on tucking your chin That'll help you Not raise up and slit your hips too. Yes, sir. Does that make sense? Yes, sir All right inside chain don't want to force the inside release on the inside breaking route It is the exact same first step, but it's not as big of a step It's a short step so we could push off of it. So you guys hear orange cones the db yellow cones the db It's set go one two Outside release dip this shoulder now we're treating it like we restacked At 10 and guys listen at 10. We're working a rocker step. So at about 10 yards one two Out on the post right there Way to finish did you feel yourself get a little stuck on the release? Yeah a little bit. I was what happened was you sold it great your hips went with it, which was good But if this inside foot if I go one and I go too much of an open with my toe, I can't push and get out I get stuck a little bit. You know what i'm saying? So it's almost like your body has to move. Yeah, your body's got to move separate from your feet My feet want to stay going forward But my body goes here so I can still push off but I get the same type of cell. Is there does that make sense? All right Three Harder Gotta keep running That's a wrap on the first down training, what do you think? It was good, I guess. I mean sucks that they didn't have real db up there again Yeah, they just had to swap up but it is what it is, I guess and it wasn't like he learned anything new necessarily It was a lot of just repetition obviously learning some of the same things the releases the How to break down get going get in and out of breaks and just uh, you know Be a better route runner and release runner. We start spring football monday. Hopefully that's sharpened him up. Y'all stay tuned for the next video Subscribe my man murph squad. Let's go. Let's go Shout out to the boys Welcome to my life. Welcome to my life