MERGED: No Tackling in Camp

[Dolphin North]

Players tackle for many years. As outstanding players in college they often forget basic techniques. Stress techniques in practice and hopefully that carries to the field. Maybe this will help our defense play in December, since in the recent past they often seem to forget how to tackle at that time of year.

And often wear down. this might help there too. I think the successful niners of the 80's had "light" practices during the season and were questioned for it (but how can we question their success?). Also, Saban talked about stressing "fitting on" players to tag them or something like that. He said it was about getting into position and when a guy tags but was out of position for a real would be tackle, the point is stressed to him. I believe that detail would definitely be stressed in a Saban camp from what I read.

 

[Drfletcherdc]

Anything that Saban does that is opposite of DW than I am all for it. We were one of the worst tackling teams the last couple of years, so change is good.