Life doesn’t get easier.
You simply get to choose your hard.
🔥 Discipline or regret. 🔥 Growth or comfort. 🔥 Courage or fear.
So choose the hardship that makes you stronger, because you’ll face hardship whether you want to or not.
Episode #4 Offensive Linemen Love it When
⚠️ Defensive Linemen do not use their hands 🙌!
Why?
O- Linemen LOVE when defensive DL don’t use their hands to create separation and control because now the OL can do exactly what he wants:
✅ Stay connected.
✅ Get chest to chest.
✅ Absorb the rush.
✅ Control your body.
✅ Use his size and strength against you.
✅ Block without moving his feet much.
💊 Antidote:
1️⃣✋ Hands Placement:
Strike the breast plate. Thumbs up to prevent bend in your elbows.
2️⃣🔒 Lock Out or Extension:
Control the blocker, better vision, and easier to escape.
3️⃣📐 Leverage (Angle Advantage)
Stronger base, more power, and drive.
4️⃣🦶 Active Feet
Feet should always be active and moving forward. “DEAD FEET DON’T EAT ☠️🦶🍽️”
💡 A lesson to teach the advantage of attacking HALF A MAN 💡
One simple but powerful lesson your players can experience firsthand:
Take a player who struggles to understand the importance of “fighting half a man.” 🛡️⚔️
Have him perform a major lift:
🏋️ Power Clean
🏋️♂️ Squat
🏋️ Bench Press
Let him attack the weight using BOTH sides of his body and record the numbers 📈
Then challenge him to do that SAME weight using only HALF his body:
➡️ One arm on bench
➡️ One leg on squat
➡️ One arm on power clean
The numbers change immediately 👀
Why? 🤔
Because the body can no longer generate the same:
⚡ Power
⚖️ Balance
📐 Leverage
💥 Force Production
🎯 Control
THAT’S THE LESSON.
When a defensive lineman attacks HALF A MAN 🛡️➡️ the offensive lineman loses half of his power structure.
He can’t generate the same:
❌ Force
❌ Balance
❌ Control
❌ Power
That he has when he gets his full body on you.
Players don’t just HEAR the concept
they FEEL it. 🔥
Sometimes the best teaching tool
is experience!!!
To every coach out there grinding on the road, I SEE YOU!
I respect the sacrifice.
I respect the commitment.
I respect the man behind the logo.
Because before we’re coaches, we’re men pouring into young men with dreams.
Different schools. Different colors. Same mission.
Develop. Lead. Serve.
Safe travels and keep pouring into others.
MY BROTHER’S KEEPER
God never built us to walk alone.
To lift 💪 each other when we’re weak.
To speak 🗣️ life when doubt creeps in.
To hold the standard 🤝when one starts to slip.
To stand firm shoulder to shoulder no matter the storm ⛈️.
You will not fall, if I refuse to let you.
That’s MBK. 🔥
God, use me as Your tool to reach Your sons.
Let my words carry truth.
Let my actions reflect You.
Let my life point them closer to their purpose.
Not for my glory but for Yours.
‘Here am I. Send me.’ — Isaiah 6:8”
⚔️ ⏩ Fight Forward!!!
Proverbs 24:16
For though the righteous fall seven times, they rise again…
I have lost a lot in life. I am where I am today because I refuse to stay defeated.
Learn from both victory and defeat. The only true defeat is staying defeated.