The Best of D-Line Examples

My all-time best posts

Q: I recently discovered your newsletter, and I’m finding it hard to browse your posts. Is there someplace I can find your best stuff, ideally grouped by topic?

Recently I’ve been getting quite a few questions that I’ve written about in my D-Line Examples newsletter. And it makes sense! After a year of putting out this newsletter every week, we’re now at over 90 posts. It’s got to be hard to find the right one.

So let’s fix that. Below, I’ve collected my best posts, from day one until today, roughly sorted by popularity, across 7 topics:

1. 🏋️ Skill development

2. 💥 Block destruction

3. 💨 Pass rush

4. 🏆 Coaching

5. 👣 Stance

6. 💼 Case studies

7. 🧷 Stunts

Going forward, I’ll make this post a living document to track all the best stuff I put out across any channel, so bookmark it for future reference. And enjoy!

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🏋️ Skill development

1. Off-season drills database

2. Off-season workouts

3. Aaron Donald’s pass rush workout

4. Bentley’s D-Line training

5. Solo workouts

6. How to improve outside of practice

💥 Block Destruction

1. The genius of exploding with hand and hips first

2. 14 block destruction tips

3. Defeating zone read

4. How to defeat a double team

5. 3 ways to defeat double

6. Defeating pullers

7. How to destroy screen

8. 10 tips on how to run stunt

9. Teaching block release

10. Hand fundamentals

11. 1 and 2-gap keys

💨 Pass Rush

1. 14 pass rush tips

2. Coach Teerlinck’s pass rush drills

3. How to rush as a unit

4. Learning new pass rush moves

5. How to pass rush from a 4i

6. How to transition from run to pass

7. How to calculate your rush path

8. Pass rush is chess not checkers

9. How to power rush

10. Turning the corner

11. 3-man rush

12. 4 drills to improve get off

13. 5 man rush

🏆 Coaching

1. 3 lessons from Larry Johnson

2. How to structure your indy

3. D-Line resource guide

4. 5 tips from Coach Tray Scott

5. Fundamental D-Line skills

6. How to create a scouting report

7. Film study fundamentals

8. Designing a pre-game routine

👣 Stance

1. 3-point stance fundamentals

2. The pros and cons of 2-point stance

3. Mastering 1 and 2-gap stance

💼 Case studies

1. How Tosh Lupoi improves his D-Line

2. Coach McFarland’s combo progression

3. How Pete Jenkins teaches the pull slide

4. How to use John Teerlinck’s 3-on-1 drill

5. How Clelin Ferrel uses the wrong arm

6. Dwight Freeney’s spin move

7. Aaron Donald’s jump chop

8. How Tyler Shelvin attacks and reacts

9. How Myles Garret sells the jab

10. How Coach Montgomery teaches low pad level

11. How Vita Vea runs a TEX

12. Panther’s indy

🧷 Stunts

1. Run stunt fundamentals

2. Pin stunt

3. Tex stunt

4. Exit stunt

5. Coffee house

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Hope you have a great week!

And whenever you are ready, there are 2 ways I can help you:

1. Learn how to develop top tier pass rushers and a lethal pass rush attack here (1,000+ students)

2. Learn how to turn your D-Line into a block destruction machine here (1,100+ students)

-Craig