On today’s podcast, we fire up the defensive side of the ball with our first installment of our Deep Dive on Defense series. To get us started, we welcome back a friend of the podcast, Vince DiGaetano, Defensive QC at Fordham University. Coach Dig has extensive tackling knowledge from his years coaching the defensive side of the football. He has come up with multiple systems for analyzing and tracking tackling data that have helped his teams succeed in numerous different ways. Dig joins the podcast today to talk about the 3 C’s of Tackling.
2:08 Idea behind Coach Dig’s Tackle Studies
7:50 The 3 C’s of tackling according to
11:10 Point of Contact
17:11 Strike Zone
24:35 Chase
28:30 Creating value to asses points of contact
34:47 Translating these values into gameplans
44:52 Working different skills on air and building towards being able to get better values
47:35 Determining what a good final value depending on which level you are at
