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@MpPerformanceaz

🏈3 Peat Arena Football champion(AFL) 🏈Defensive Line Technician 🥗Health Coach 📚Mentor 🔥Detailed Performance
Scottsdale, AZ Joined June 2010
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Playoff mode starts now. 🏈
Two games left in the regular season, and this is when we tighten everything up for the D-line. Playoff football is won in the trenches, and the trenches are won in the first step and the hands.
Here's our focus this week:
🔹 First step: Explode off the ball. Short, violent, and gaining ground. The first step wins or loses the rep before contact.
🔹 Hand work: Strike first, hands inside, and keep them active. Win the hands, win the block.
No new tricks this time of year. We sharpen what got us here and play faster than the guy across from us.
Defensive linemen are skill players too. Detail wins in November.
#DLine #PlayoffMode #DefensiveLine #DetailedDLine #TrenchWork
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Two of the biggest problems for D-linemen nationwide: getting too far upfield against the run, and hands going dead after the first move. 🚫

So we went to the 3-man sled to fix both.

🔹 Attack the sled
🔹 Coach points a direction, and that’s where you shed
🔹 Shuffle laterally down the line
🔹 Hit a block-shed move on EVERY bag that crosses your face

No drifting upfield. No one-and-done hands. Stay square, stay active, and keep shedding until you find the

#dline #defensiveline #footballdrills #highschoolfootball #az
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Marcus Pittman Verified account @MpPerformanceaz
Four years in the trenches together. Three straight Arena Bowl rings. Me and Cliff Dukes have been lining up next to each other for a long time.

Back then it was about getting to the quarterback. Now it’s about teaching the next wave how to get there.

Different jerseys, same mission. Turns out neither of us knows how to leave the field, and honestly, we’re not trying to. The game gave us everything, so now we pour it back into the guys coming up behind us.

Defensive linemen are skill players too. We just teach it from the sideline now. 🤝🏿

#DLine #DefensiveLine #ArenaFootball #ArenaBowlChamps #CoachLife