It Takes Faith to Be a Playmaking DB
I’ve harped on it. Your coach has harped on it, and perhaps your dad has harped on it too. What am I talking about? It’s watching film, but what good is watching all that film if you’re not going to have any faith? In my time playing and coaching, I’ve ...
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Building Trust with Your DB Coach: Key Steps to Earn Playing Time and Starting Position
As players in the secondary, our first pursuit is playing time and the starting position. To do this, we must earn favor with our coaches. By favor, I don’t mean becoming his pet, but that might be what happens if you follow the steps I will lay out for you in this artic...
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How Did You Make that Play? I Saw it On Film
The Importance of Film Study for a Playmaking DB By: Chad Wilson Owner – All Eyes DB Camp If there is one downfall for young defensive backs in the game of football it is their unwillingness or inability to study film. Time and again, I have come across defen...
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You’re Not A Starter and That Won’t Change …
By: Chad Wilson – Owner All Eyes DB Camp IG: @alleyesdbcamp Do I have your attention? I should. You have been toiling around on the lower part of the depth chart and are failing to make an impact. Most guys in this position have a ready-list of outside reason...
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Attention Defensive Backs! Stay in Your Circle.
Body control is a must for defense of backs that are looking to stay in and or around the wide receiver that they are covering. This also applies to guys that are trying to be in the proper area in zone coverage when the ball is thrown. To do this there is one simp...
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Control Your Body Language
Ever felt like a coach had it out for you? In your mind, you don’t cause any problems, you do everything you you’re supposed to do and you don’t suck, so why are you not playing? It could be this funny little big thing known as b...
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These Reps Will Raise Your Game to the Next Level
It’s that time of year, practice is in full go and by now some of the excitement you may have felt in the early going is giving way to the fatigue and repetitiveness of camp activities. While this may be true for everybody, only a small handful of defen...
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I Saw These Two GOATs on the Field At the Same Time and It Changed Everything
I know what you came here for. You came here for a story on how I witnessed a game long 1-on-1 battle between the greatest cornerback and greatest wide receiver in NFL history. Sorry to disappoint you but don’t leave. What I am going to testify to will ...
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The 5 Essential Moves of a Defensive Back
There are some things in life you just can’t get around. Times will change but certain things will stay the same. This happens in the game of football too and it also applies to defensive back. As offenses have evolved and rules have changed, the scheme...
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How to Structure Your Indy Period for DB Coaches
I was recently asked by a new coach how I thought he should put together his individual period that he will get while coaching defensive backs at a middle school. It was a simple questions but a great question. The truth of the matter is that many defensive back coaches ...
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