Best Eleven of 2023, #6: Make the Most of the Reps You Have Available – Caleb Collins, OLB Coach, Baylor

As coaches, we have to get our reps just like players do. We study this game in great detail, but we also have to coach and teach it, and we hone ourselves as professionals by actually doing and reflecting on it, and finding where to improve, and that’s something that we discussed in our #6 interview of 2023 with Baylor OLB Coach Caleb Collins.  

Coach Collins explains how he did that as an inexperienced coach, and the pointers he gives certainly can help seasoned professionals grow and develop as well.

Show Notes:

• How teaching in the high school classroom helped him to an on-field FBS job
• Getting reps at coaching your own room
• Traits desired in an outside linebacker
• Setting the tone with the Jack Linebacker in the install
• Setting the edge and rushing the passer
• Teaching alignment and recognition
• Using technology to speed up the process and get more reps
• Stance and start progression
• Pass rush progression
• Keys instead of ball key
• Understanding the set
• Hand combat
• Upper body violence instead of hip flip
• Coaching cues for pass rush
• Skill toolbox

Follow Caleb Collins on Twitter/X @BU_CoachCollins.

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