Baltimore Ravens OL coach Joe D'Alessandris - Down Block Technique (Gap Schemes)

so how do we do this you'll see that there's a line and I use this line our five yard line of scrimmages right here for a second and the reason why is I want that inside foot they're going to push out their out they're going to push off their outside foot right here and they're going to step with their inside foot and I don't I don't ask them to step over the line and get a long step if they get three or four inches across that line of scrimmage that's all I want them to do and then they're going to place their hat and hands through the Veta neck and they're going to stay in that plane to get their down blocks and try to eliminate and move that defender back off the ball so I'm going to show you a few illustrations here off of that okay so you can see watch the right tackle pushes off of that right inside Arch right here pushes off of it gains ground with his inside foot stays on that angle rakes the hands with leverage and then accelerate with leg drive this is Kevin zeitler who played at Cincinnati played at Cleveland played at the Giants was fortunate enough to have him for three years and what a wonderful Pro did a great job coachable every day a working machine I used to nickname him a Belgium Workhorse every day he came out to work not a bad day for the this kid this is Tyler Linden bom this is Daniel fele this young man came to the US from Australia and became an now he's an offensive lineman and he's about 69 about 395 okay he's huge and this is Tyler Lind the mom who played at Iowa number 64 so you can see the down block angle again Tyler steps out a little bit too far I want him to gain ground and then stay right there if that was helmet VI the neck stay on that plane and pin them inside Daniel has the best block of all of them right here with the footwork with the footwork hand placement and then finish and they're all doing a nice job of finishing but again hit the N national landmark