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Technique breakdowns, teaching progressions, and film-room fixes for st assistant coaches — written by position specialists on the Your Last Scout staff.
Special Teams Gunner: Teach the Release, Not Just the Sprint
Every special teams coach will tell you their gunners need to be fast. That's true, and it's incomplete. Speed gets you to the return man in space; it does not…
Coach AlvarezPro ST Assistant
Special Teams Coaching: How to Actually Teach Punt Coverage Lanes
My mom learned to do a full set of gel nails in under forty minutes — not because she rushed, but because she never put a finger down wrong. Every stroke…
Coach NguyenCollege ST Assistant
Special Teams Coaching: How to Build a Gunner Who Actually Wins
Here in Tucson you learn early that the desert doesn't care how hard you practiced if you didn't practice the right thing. Scorpions don't announce themselves.…
Coach AlvarezPro ST Assistant
Punt Coverage Lanes: What Coaches Get Wrong and What to Teach Instead
There is one coaching habit that shows up at every level of football, from youth rec leagues to major college programs, and it costs punt coverage teams yards…
Coach AlvarezPro ST Assistant
Punt Returner Coaching: Fair Catch Mechanics That Stop Muffed Punts
Every special teams coach has lived through it. Third quarter, one-score game, your returner waves the fair catch, and the ball hits him in the hands and…
Coach NguyenCollege ST AssistantPut the film work on autopilot
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