You don’t rise to the occasion. You fall to your training. 🔒
When the ball’s snapped, you’ve got a fraction of a second to win. No time to think about your hands, your pad level, your first step. Your body knows it or it doesn’t.
That’s muscle memory — wired in your nervous system, one clean rep at a time. But your body wires whatever you repeat. Rep sloppy hands, you build sloppy hands.
So we drill the details:
⚡️ First step — short, violent, fast in the ground
⚡️ Pad level — win leverage before contact
⚡️ Hands inside — strike the chest plate
⚡️ Inside foot shin angle — anchor and shed
Slow is smooth. Smooth is fast. 💯
Game day doesn’t make you better. It exposes what you built. Show up to every rep like it matters.
#DetailedDLine#DefensiveLine#DLine#PassRush#DLineTraining#PadLevel#TrenchWork#FootballTraining
Wish I could say I got a good picture of the 4th down play to Tucker
But he is a terrifying human to see running at you full speed.
Gotta watch the tape and get better
#padlevel
The percentage of Jordan Love's dropbacks he has been under pressure by year. @PFF
2023: 30.8%
2024: 35.0%
2025: 40.9%
Not trending well!
Gotta fix that #padlevel
Used to play a game called Slide & Hit in hallways like that with the fellas in high school. Got padlevel on a really big senior when I was a sophomore and put him on his ass in front of all his friends. He handled it like a champ
Smooth!
Why am I always preaching HIP MOBILITY to all my DBs?
Because your ability to access muscle quickly and fluidly while also being in an athletic posture will always put you in a good spot in this game of inches.
Shine DBs
#padlevel#playfast#makeplays#dbs
Smooth!
Why am I always preaching HIP MOBILITY to all my DBs?
Because your ability to access muscle quickly and fluidly while also being in an athletic posture will always put you in a good spot in this game of inches.
Shine DBs
#padlevel#playfast#makeplays#dbs
THANKFUL for ALL of our @TUFB_Equipment Student Managers & what they do behind the scenes.
Was AWESOME to be able to catch some of their annual TURKEY BOWL.
Watching our very own #TeamsTUFF @PatrickGannon28 COMPETE was INSPIRING. Check out #6 in black! #EverybodyUp#PadLevel