Ron Kerr

Faith, Family + FOOTBALL ~ OL Coach & Asst. WRESTLING Coach @ 🏴‍☠️ Shippensburg University Raiders, + Acting SHERIFF@ Cumberland County Sheriff's Office 🚨🚔🚨

[@TheCOOLClinic®️ @thecoolclinic]

Tyler Bowen - Offensive Line - The Ohio State University

Win the landmark with your first step. Use your feet to create the angle. Get your hands involved early. Block the defender on the angle you find.

Check out Coach Bowen’s presentation: https://t.co/8sHpwJW0wv

[Duke Manyweather @BigDuke50]

OL Public Service Announcement

When I created OL Masterminds over a decade ago, the purpose was simple: elevate, educate, empower, and highlight the offensive line position through collaboration. I believed then, as I do now, that no position in sports better represents what true unity is supposed to look like.

An offensive line is made up of five individuals with different bodies, backgrounds, experiences, strengths, and responsibilities. Each player sees the game from a slightly different vantage point, but for the unit to function, all five must ultimately see it through one lens. Their success depends on communication, trust, accountability, and a willingness to put the mission ahead of the individual.

Unfortunately, the offensive line coaching and development community has become increasingly fractured. Too much of the conversation is now driven by ego, agendas, tribalism, and the need to prove that one philosophy is superior to every other.

“If you don’t teach it my way, you’re wrong.”

“If you don’t belong to our group, you don’t understand football.”

That mindset is not leadership. It is insecurity.

Much like the current political landscape in America, we have allowed disagreement to become division. We have confused having strong convictions with needing everyone else’s convictions to be wrong. Instead of exchanging ideas, challenging one another, and learning through honest collaboration, too many people retreat into tribes where agreement is rewarded and different perspectives are treated as threats.

Here is the news flash: study 160 offensive linemen in the NFL and you will see 160 different expressions of the position. Study college football and you will find countless techniques, systems, body types, and approaches succeeding at a high level.

There are absolutely foundational principles that transcend eras, systems, and philosophies. Posture, balance, leverage, timing, vision, communication, and strain will always matter. Those principles create the foundation, but they do not require everyone to build the exact same house.

Bruce Lee said, “Using no way as way; having no limitation as limitation.” He also reminded us to “be water.”

Water adapts without losing its identity. It responds to the environment in front of it. It can move around an obstacle, flow through an opening, or meet force with force. That does not mean having no standards or convictions. It means refusing to become so rigid that you can no longer learn, adjust, or recognize truth when it arrives in a form different from your own.

The offensive line should be the group that reminds football, and perhaps America, what unity actually looks like.

Unity is not uniformity. It does not require five people to think exactly alike, come from the same place, or solve every problem the same way. It requires them to align around a shared purpose. It means communicating through disagreement, putting the mission ahead of personal recognition, and understanding that individual success is directly connected to the person beside you.

On the offensive line, you cover for one another. You accept accountability when you are wrong. You solve problems together. You do your job with the understanding that someone else’s livelihood, health, and success may depend on it. Ego cannot be allowed to destroy the unit because the moment one person decides he is more important than the five, the entire operation becomes vulnerable. It’s a lesson that extends well beyond football.

We do not have to come from the same place, look the same, teach the same techniques, vote the same way, worship the same way, or live identical lives. But we must remain capable of respecting one another, finding common ground, and working toward something greater than ourselves.

We should be able to compete without tearing each other down. We should be able to disagree without becoming enemies. We should be able to protect our principles without losing our humanity.

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[Danny Schaechter 🏝️🏈🐏 @CoachDShack]

Iowa DL Close Proximity Tackle Drill

[Glazier Clinics @GlazierClinics]

D-Line Press to Scoop Drill

- The press to scoop drill is designed for defensive linemen to handle situations where they encounter a double team combo or a zone block.

- When positioned on the backside of a play, the player must work to press the scoop as flat as possible against the line of scrimmage.

- It is critical to get hands on the offensive player to prevent them from getting a free release to the second level of the defense.

- Players are coached to keep their inside arm long, strong, and fully locked out while adjusting their position during the play.

- To maintain power and leverage, the defensive lineman should work to get their inside leg up, utilizing a same hand and same foot technique.

- If two blockers remain on the defensive lineman, another defender is free; once one blocker leaves, the lineman must be prepared to come off the block and
make the play.

Vontrell King-Williams, D-Line Coach, Auburn
@CoachKingWill

#glazierclinics

[Danny Schaechter 🏝️🏈🐏 @CoachDShack]

Nebraska DL Fit & Fight the Double Team Drill

[Coach Mark Patritto @MarkieP_]

Miami HC Mario Cristobal breaking down their 5 OL vs 4 DL Pass Rush conditioning drill.

Game like reps ✅
Technique and focus while tired ✅
High volume reps efficiently ✅
Competition ✅

Love this! Champions are made.

[Nicholas Dheilly (Dline Coach) @Dline_coach]

Rueben Bain Jr. In Camp

[Mike Rittelmann @MRittCGS]

🚨 High School DEFENSIVE TACKLE’s

Defensive tackle film should show far more than just sacks and tackles. College coaches want to evaluate how consistently you impact the line of scrimmage every snap. Your tape should display explosive get off, violent hands, leverage, block destruction, gap discipline, pursuit effort, and the ability to collapse the pocket

✅ Explosive first step and penetration

✅ Holding ground vs double teams

✅ Block shedding and finishing ability

✅ Pocket collapse and QB disruption

✅ Pass rush arsenal: bull rush, rip, swim, club, spin, push pull

✅ Pursuit effort and backside hustle

✅ Physicality, toughness, and motor

✅ Multiple alignments: 0 tech, 1 tech, 2i, 3 tech, 4i, 5 tech

College coaches want to see defensive linemen who can consistently affect the football game, not just make occasional splash plays

Show clips of tackles for loss, pressures, forced fumbles, pursuit plays, and snaps where you reset the line of scrimmage

Include reps that show proper hand placement, leverage, pad level, balance through contact, and the ability to finish plays

🎥 FILM TIPS:

🔥 Front load your best plays first
🔥 Keep clips game speed and concise
🔥 Show versatility in different fronts and techniques
🔥 Highlight impact plays that create negative yards and turnovers
🔥 Effort matters. Finish every rep to the whistle.

[Danny Schaechter 🏝️🏈🐏 @CoachDShack]

South Carolina DL Long Arm & Swipe Drill

[Mike Rittelmann @MRittCGS]

Understanding the 4i Technique is critical in today’s game and has become a foundational alignment within multiple defensive structures across football.

Aligned on the inside shade of the offensive tackle, the 4i allows a defensive lineman to control the B Gap, disrupt inside zone concepts, create difficult double teams, and force offenses to adjust blocking angles and run fits.

Why the 4i is valued defensively ⬇️

✅ Controls the B Gap and interior run lanes
✅ Creates tougher combination blocks for offensive linemen
✅ Forces cutbacks and disrupts timing in the run game
✅ Creates favorable one on one opportunities
✅ Helps collapse the pocket from the interior
✅ Allows linebackers to play cleaner and faster downhill

Success within the 4i is built on discipline, leverage, violent hands, pad level, and the ability to control space at the point of attack.

Defensive linemen must understand not only where they align, but why the technique is being utilized within the structure of the defense.

Control your gap. Control the line of scrimmage. Finish the play.

[CodeDLClinic @CodeDLClinic]

Polish The Move Drill by @R2X_Rushmen1

#TheDLCode

[CodeDLClinic @CodeDLClinic]

Strike Feel The DBL Drill by @Coach__Roy_Tesh

#TheDLCode

[James Light @JamesALight]

Virginia Tech DL Coach Sean Spencer - Reading Set Lines & OL Shoulders

Reading Set Lines
- On the line = Best move... Know yourself
- Above set line = Counter
- Below set line = Run the set line

Reading Shoulders
- As he sets = You read/judge
- Horizontal = Edge/Finesse
- Vertical = Power

[Brendan Sonnone @BSonnone]

Odell and T-Knight praising Deante McCray a few times in this drill.

Was told he had a good winter workout. Trying to carry it over to the spring.

[Prizmatic Solutions @prizmaticusa]

Notre Dame’s DL Read and Tackle Drill

Bend and Chase + Fight Reach

From @chrisvIQtory

[Shippensburg University Football @ShipFootball]

We have announced a series of new QB instructional clinics that are set for May and June.

The clinics will be directed by offensive coordinator Brayden Long.

Registration is underway.

Details 🔽

https://t.co/BuJqjp5SRC

[Dave Holmes @DaveHolmesTV]

I spent most of the morning watching the Ohio State defense and offensive line. @KellyanneStitts focused on the offense. Here's some video from the first spring practice. @wsyx6

[James Light @JamesALight]

Georgia Defense - DL Drill Tape

- 1 Gap (Attack React)
- 2 Gap (React Attack)

DL Run Skill
- Stab & Grab
- Steer Drill
- 2 Direction Steer
- Swim Release (One Arm Pull)
- Shrug Release (Two Arm Pull)
- Gap Responsibility

[Glazier Clinics @GlazierClinics]

D-Line Hand Twitch Drill

D-Line Pass Rush Indy

- The drill is designed to help get as many quick and violent hands as possible.
- An important aspect of the drill is that you have to reload your hands.
- When swiping, the goal is not to finish outside of the framework, but to swipe so you can keep swiping and keep reloading your hands.
- The drill involves three reps of swiping, followed by a fourth rep where the player crosses face and gets vertical.
- The first three reps should use the inside hand as the dominant hand.
- After crossing face, it is very important to plant off the outside foot (the right foot in the video's current view) and gain ground.

Ben Olson, Defensive Coordinator, Incarnate Word
@_CoachOlson

#GlazierClinics

[Football Toolbox @footballtoolbox]

4 EDDs to Develop Explosive Ball Get-Offs for Defensive Line https://t.co/kQMVK2k7UW