EPISODE 2: HOW DO YOU FIND YOUR PASS RUSH MOVE?

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What's up Big Dawg? This is Coach Rolle at Five Star Linemen Academy. Thank you for subscribing and tuning in to another episode of Big Dawg Trench Talk. In our previous episode, we were discussing the question, "What makes a great pass rusher?". Now, I always like to ask my athletes after a session or sometimes during the session, to make sure they're tracking, what was your great takeaway? What was your "G.T." or what was your great takeaway from that session? From that film session? What did you take away from it? And so for me from episode one, my great takeaway was that you have to make sure that you put your attitude before your arsenal. We discussed how it was important to have the skills and the technique and the measurables to be a successful pass rusher. However, you need to ignite all of that. You need to have the right attitude to ignite the vehicle, and so my great takeaway was attitude before arsenal.

However, it is important that you develop a certain set of skills. That you develop your set of pass rush moves that will cause you to be successful. Now that your attitudes in place. Episode number two. How do you find your arsenal? Let's establish some vocabulary, Big Dawg, so we're on the same page. When I say arsenal, I'm referring to a set of pass rush moves. Now, I'm not just referring to any pass rush moves, but I'm referring to pass rush moves that fit your style of play. These are your pass rush moves, your arsenal. So now the question again is, "how do you find your arsenal?" or "how do you find your set of pass rush moves?". The key word for me here is set. There is a set of pass rush moves that work together depending on your style of play. Depending on your style of play, you should have a set of pass rush moves that you go to every game with, every practice with, that work together for you.

When it comes to the art of rushing the passer, I do not believe that pass rush moves work independently. I believe that pass rush moves, work dependently. When you're watching a pass rusher in an nfl game or a college game or high school game, I believe that the pass rush moves that did work were the result of those pass rush moves that might not have worked. I believe that the other pass rush moves have set that pass rusher up for future success. So in other words, the pass rush move that worked, played off the one that didn't. I believe that they worked together. For example, you may see a pass rusher bull. Bull, bull, bull, bull. And all of a sudden he comes back with a finesse move. He comes back with a sweep or a quick swim or a cross chop of that sort because the pass rusher was "bulling" on the previous pass downs and lead to a successful finesse rush or hand attack.

And so this is why, to me, it's important to have a set of pass rush moves depending on your style of play, not one move. I don't think a pass rusher should go to a game or a practice and only thinking about one move as opposed to the set of moves. This is why I say arsenal arsenal as in your set of pass rushes. Your set, not your one move, your set of pass rush moves. Now, the wisdom and the art of pass rushing now comes to the question, what is in your arsenal that works well with each other? That actually compliments each other, that play off each other? Well, now we're talking. Now we're talking about the perfect set of pass rush moves in your arsenal. Those pass rush moves have to play off each other. They have to work well or compliment each other well in order for you to have that success.

So point being is that when it comes to choosing pass rush moves or choosing the right arsenal for you, you have to think about a set. #1: You need to have a "go-to" or you need to have a pass rush move that works for you. This is that pass rush that you feel you're going to win eight times out of 10, nine times out of 10, 10 times out of 10, because that's the pass rush move that worked for you, that nobody can stop. That's when you need that pass rush or that great rush to cause havoc in the backfield to cause the quarterback to run. To cause that quarterback to throw that ball off the wrong foot. To cause some kinda big play to happen. That's your pass rush move. For me, when I played the game, my pass rush move was my slingshot.

I love the slingshot. It did not matter how big or strong that guy was for me. If I wanted a sack or a great rush and I knew that I took the time to set it up, my "go-to". Now that it was time to get to that quarterback and now the timing was perfect to attack that offensive lineman and he was right where I wanted him, I went to my slingshot. I went to my slingshot. That was my move. My other move was catchin