how to play dt in football?
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DT is all about speed and power.  You'll be matched up against the offensive tackles most of the time, the biggest guys on the field.  You have to be able to get up off the line faster than they can and move around them.  A lot depends on your coach's play style, but your primary job is to put pressure on the quarterback and break up plays.  Additionally, it's your job to see holes in the defensive line and plug them up to stop inside runs.  \n\nGood luck!
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Get low, don't aim low. If you dive at their shoetops (or knees), they are going to truck you.\n\nGet someone on your team your size or smaller to help you practice. Stand facing each other from 20 feet away, and then you kneel down. Have them walk slowly towards you with the ball as if they were going to pass you (on either side). Plant your shoulder into their hip, head behind them, face up, wrap your arms, and then roll to take them down. If they come straight towards you, you won't be able to roll; wrap just the same but fall backwards and drag them down as you do. Keep repeating until you're comfortable, and then start increasing the speed. \n\nWhen you're comfortable at speed, start working on exploding your shoulder up into them. As you wrap behind their legs, the effect should be to lift them off the ground. If you do lift them up, drive them back down into the ground to complete the hit. How much you can practice that is going to depend on your teammates' tolerance. \n\nOnce you're comfortable with all that from your knees, work on getting into a similar position standing. Some people will actually touch a knee to the ground before contact; some people are comfortable getting into a low squat. Making contact with someone big, 95% of the time, whomever gets lower will win. Play around with what stance both allows you to feel comfortable and allows you to explode forward. \n\nOnce you have that down, the trick is getting into position during a game. It's tough in open play, and most of the tackles will be stopping them however you can. Pursuing a kick, get there fast but under control, so you can get to your tackling stance when you need. Around the scrum, the hits tend to be better lined up, but with the crowd, clean hits are rare. But they're worth it when you get them.\n\nIf someone bigger than you takes a run at you, use the same technique, but rather than exploding, just wrap and drag them down. Make the tackle, don't be a hero.
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No such thing as quick and easy in American football.\n\n-watch the ball carriers midsection...\n-break down, shoulders over your knees, keep your feet moving...\n-place your head in front of the ball carrier - imagine putting your chin on his hip pads...\n-throw your arms through, making a tight, clubbed fist...keep feet pumping...\n-wrap him up, lift and drive.
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You'll need to work your all round game, passing especially. As the others have said, know what your teamsmates are likely to do so you can anticipate where to play the ball. Find out who likes the ball played to feet and who likes to run onto the ball.\n\nMake sure you look around alot, know where your teammates are and the opposition. Talk to your players as well. Let them know what's going on. Be fit so you can get up and down the field with every attack and defence. Or decide whether you'll be the holding player in midfield or the roamer.\n\nLastly be physical, don't let the opposition push you off the ball too easily.
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Without seeing you play, or perform even drills it is impossible for anybody on this board to tell you what position that you would be best suited to play. Alot would also depend on the type of defense your team plays. I you in an even front (4-3, 4-4, or even 6-2) or do you play an odd front (3-4, 5-2, or even 5-3). Does your team play an attacking 1 gap style or a more read and react 2 ga pstyle. \n\nWe don't know how strong or quick you are. We don't know the leve lof competion or size of the players in your league and team. On all but the biggest of HS football programs, 6 ft , 230 lbs is large enough to play Defensive line, OL or LB. \n\nBe aggressive, continue to work out, and havew faith that your coaching staff will put you in the best position to succeed and have your team succeed.
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I coached flag football for seven and eight year olds.This is  the way I finally got something going. I split my two backs and put them seven yards deep, then I had the quarterback turn his back to the line of scrimmage when he took the snap and sprint between the backs. Then the backs didn't move until the quarterback passed between them. He could hand it to either back to go left or right. Then after a couple of hand offs he would fake the hand off one way then bootleg the other way. If you have fast kids the seven yards gives them some space so they can rely on their ability. If the other team is rushing hard you bootleg first then hand off after they start playing the bootleg. After you get that going you can run slip screens to the end, and some counter plays. They will have to react to the possible bootleg( usually by hesitating at the line of scrimmage) or you will rush for big yardage. When you boot leg you have two blockers in place, also they have to sell the play action. The important thing is that every play is blocked the same way at the start, and the backs and quarterback run every play exactly the same to the point of the hand off.
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Try using the wishbone formation more often, if you are so desperate (as we can sense) review some of the college film and teams like Nebraska that i recall are use to run the option in a lot of the game plays.\nAlso just throw the ball only to RBs and Tight ends ocasionally, your receivers need to be mainly for blocking schemes.
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That is a complete Toss-up, albeit, a good one to have.\n\nI agree that Tiki is the best...however if the league you are playing in doesn't give a lot of points for good yardage, then you really need to start the person that will guarantee you at least one TD. And we all know that Brandon Jacobs will steal the TD that Tiki has a chance of getting.\n\nA-Train and Foster will have a field day againt the Texans/Rams D's, check to see which one has a higher percentage of TD's per game and choose that one.\n\nAlso, how has Tiki's play been on Monday nights this year?
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Bulking up is the easy part,  the hard part is learning the line calls and the blocking schemes for run blocking.  WR is by far, one of the easiest positions to play at the high school level, and TE increases the level of difficulty with the  blocking.  Anyone who wants to switch had better be committed and had better like to hit since you go from nearly zero contact as a WR to 60-70% of the time blocking DE's and Linebackers, definitely different from going against DB's.
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play lots and lots of soccer. and when you start kicking the real football, kick it on a sidewalk straight, this will increase your accuracy.
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Obviously you've got to work out hard and make sure youre in shape for the start of the season. Strength and conditioning are essential for the O line. I'm assuming you already know that however. What I would suggest focusing on is working on your first step or your ability to get off the ball. If you can explode off the ball and get into the d-lineman before he gets to you, you'll dominate consistently. Strength is important as a lineman, but quickness and leverage are more important. In addition to your regular running and work-outs, I would suggest jump roping and jumping squat thrusts (they're like regular squat thrusts only you jump when you come up instead of just standing.) Id also suggest trying this; Find a brick or cement/concrete wall. Take some sidewalk chalk (or anything you can wash off) and draw a line to represent the abdomen/chest area of a d-lineman. Get down in your stance and work on firing off the ball and staying low, shooting up hands first into the wall. Do this over and over to increase your speed and to get used to staying low. OH, be careful not to hurt your wrists when you go into the wall. The last thing you want to do is break your wrist a month before training starts  lol. You may want to also consider wearing what boxers call "bag gloves." They're gloves that cover the back of your hand and your back knuckles so you don't rip your hands up on a heavy bag, or in this case, the wall. Other than that, just give it all you've got. If you go 100% and don't dog it during practice, the coaches will notice, and it will impress them. Hope it helps, and good luck bro.
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dont play football...you need brains in football and if you cant find out how far the FORTY YARD dash is...u dont have the brains to play football
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I could never drive that well but I had a very good outside shot.\n\nSo if they are playing man to man D on you and you are a forward(as I was) you can do several things but one I liked depending on who the defender was,was to run down the side( not always real fast) as your team is bringing the ball up the floor and if the defender is close, then either start to run along the base line and if he turns his back, then stop quickly and pop back out from where you started and take a quick pass and shoot if open.\nIf you do this a few times then the defender will catch on but then you fake the stop and when he turns to come back out you keep going along the baseline and pop out into the clear on the other side and take a pass from the guard or center.\n\nAll of this requires timing and of course a team that is going to get the ball to you when you are open.\n\nHigh level teams will be using a lot of set plays in games but many ameteur teams will just be add libing most of the time although you always discuss strategy during your time outs.\n\nYou can also use a pick from a team mate to run your defender into and then get open that way.\n\nYou can cross sides of the floor with the other forward and give the D a different view.\n\nEven if you are not a great driver you can fake an outside shot and get the D man running at you and then drive around him and either keep going if you are wide open or pull up and shoot the jumper or pass off.\n\nIf your playing against a zone D then you can load up one side of the floor more and pass the ball around until someone is open which happens quite often against a zone D.\n\nOutside shooters love playing against zones.\n\nIf it's man to man against a very good defensive team and you can't get open that easily then it's best to be setting picks for the guys(usually guards) who can drive well and this may get your opponents out of the man to man D.\n\nA lot of good teams will of course mix up their defense throught the game.\n\nThe more moves you have the better you will be and it always helps if you have a lot of natural speed.\n\nIf you are playing with good players this makes it easier for you and your team mates to get open because it's hard to cover everyone.\n\nAlways try and play within the team concept and use the strengths of all the players on the team when possible.\n\nIf you are on a team with a real coach try and do what the coach is asking you to do.
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Get better at playing at football.
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Play Fullback or tight end.  Next join the track team and work as hard as you can.  Next thing you know you'll get a little quicker and can be even better.
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think that the ball is part of ur foot  and throw your leg where you want ur foot to go. Also build up your muscle in ur legs so when you hit the ball true it will go straight. And get a decent ball and boots
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great question.  First off, as a wide receiver, you need to work on your hands.  After all, you have to be able to catch with your hands and not your body.  Best thing for this is to buy a Nerf football that's attached to a rubber band.  I think you can buy these on line or at place's like Academy.  What you do is, hook one end of the rubber band to a fence or pole.  The height should be at your shoulder's height. Then you stand and through the ball out away from you, because of the rubber band, it will come right back and really fast.  It forces you to put your hands up and catch the ball with your hands. Many NFL Wide Receiver's use this technique. \nSecondly, you need to run routes.  Get with some buddies, grab a football, go to a field and have one of your friends throw to you. You can get online and find some specific routes to run, i.e., post corner, in route etc. It would be helpful to have at least three people. One QB, one WR, and a defender. Since you're playing both WR and FS, you would want to change up and cover sometimes too.\nThird, work on your feet.  Marry a jump rope. This will educate you feet and make them quicker.  Jump rope all the time!!!!\nFourth, the weight room.  Try not to lift heavy weights.  You don't need to bulk up as a receiver.  Just light bench press, dumbell press, curls etc. Your best bet is to lift light with a lot of reps.  This will give your muscles stamina.  For your legs, squats (light), leg press, leg curls and extensions. When you're working on your legs, try to train your muscles to burst.  Meaning, on the exertion part of the lift, really burst the weight up or out. But make sure it's in a controlled way.  Don't over do it in the weight room.  As far as running two miles, that's fine, but you need to work on burts.  Meaning you need to work in some sprint work.  This is very important.  Run some 100's, 150's, 180's, and 220's.  Always stretch and warm up first and cool down and stretch afterwards.  Vary your workouts from day to day. Right down your routine for lifting and running Monday through Friday. I used to lift in the morning, and run in the evening.  Monday was heavy upper body lifting, and running day 4 400's 60 to 70 seconds for each, and 2 200 yard (sprints), 2 100 yard sprints.  Tuesday was heavy leg day, and jogging..2-3 miles, Wednesday was light upper body, short sprints..100's, 60's and 40 yard dashes.  Spend 1hr on the track.  Thursday was light lower body, and hill work or bleacher's. Try to burn your quads, yeah!!  Friday was a total body workout in the weight room (light) and some light jogging.2-3 miles at a relaxed pace. Good luck. Contact me if you need me to send you a specific routine.