Reading the Pulling Guard with Pat Schiller
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Accurately reacting to Linemen is what sets great LBs apart from the merely talented, yet so few LBs realize the plays they could be making just by training their body to react quickly to what the Linemen do.
Pat Schiller once again puts you into position to make big time plays by reading the pulling guard.
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One basic read that you can really rely On especially at the high school and College levels is reading a pulling Guard what a pulling guard is is when You're playing linebacker if you have a Guard and you have a center when the Guard pulls set but you read pull you Scrape over the top of the center in 99 Percent of the time when you read pull It's a run and it's most likely a run to Where the pullers going to so Essentially what it's going to look like And a little bit faster to speed down Huh what's important when you read pull Is to not keep it to yourself you want To let your 10 other teammates know that It's run because if they knew that it Was run you would expect them to tell You so when seeing a puller it's Important to point at the puller and Call him out so that your other Linebackers and your safeties and your Defensive lineman can help make the play As fast as you can read it basically This is what it's going to look like Down now I'm going to demonstrate what It looks like going to the other side When he pulls that indicates that it's a Run and that indicates that that's where The ball is going so he's he steps down He pulls I scrape over the top using my Hands as weapons shock shed yell pull Pull pull Make the play on the running back this
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