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Nunzio Campanile: The next thing we are going to do is talk about linebacker play. We had a lot of success with linebacker position for seven years straight, we've had all-state linebackers, we've had numerous Division I players play linebacker here for us and move on to the college level and we're really excited about that position, it's something we really stress. Right now we're going to talk about angle tackling for linebackers. In this drill, we're going to have a ball carrier – he's just going to start at a cone and run on an angle – and we want to keep our tackler about a half a man behind him, we want to make sure that he gets his head across and make sure that he runs his feet through the ball carrier on contact.

That is a drill that is really important because it is a situation that constantly comes up in the game and it's really important that when our linebackers tackle, we want them to keep their head up, we want them to roll their hips, we want them to run through the ball carrier, and, if they can, put their helmet on the football and create turnovers at every opportunity.