Friend wants some football input here is video highlight

[Jeremy Minton]

This is from him. I gave him a lot of feedback, but he said he wanted more from other people. I will quote him...

"Hey evryone before I goto sleep I wanted to post this......Everyone take a look and tell me what you think......Like I said below the first 2 minutes and 47 seconds is the film the school had so it is the entire team but after that is all my personal film......please leave feedback I would love to know what everyone thinks......sorry there is no sound really

The Beggining Slide Is Wrong and I couldnt figure out how to change it.....I am 6'2 ....255 I weighed 265 during the season.......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY4S4CyONL8

I am sorry about the bad quality of the video and I am sorry about the first 2 minutes and 47 seconds of the video that is the team film.....after that is my personal film......and it is worth the wait
The first part of the video i am at Left Offensive Tackle #65
The second part of the video I am at Left Defensive Tackle and Noseguard #65
The third part of the video is my Longsnapping (We didnt punt much this season so we saw no point in recording sorry......I am just as good at punts as I am at Feild Goal)
The fourth part of the video is me playing Center"


So all feedback is appriciated.

[Gman1524]

Whooboy. Was that long. The best part of it I saw was about the 4:50 mark. However, it really is difficult to gauge anything because of the quality. I shall give it a try.

From what I saw, I think that in some of the plays he is blocking too high. I think he'd be much more effective if he lowered himself a little, and pushed upwards. That would best utilize his size, and would get his legs doing a lot of the work. However, he should watch just falling on someone. He did that in a couple of plays. When you fall, you've effectively taken yourself out of the play. Some nice blocks, though. Some pancakes.

Too bad the quality of the film made any observations of the long snapping impossible. Keep at it. A good long snapper is worth his weight in gold. Guys have made careers of it. Andy Reid, when interviewing for the Eagles head coaching job, had a 45 minute discussion about long snapping. Jeff Lurie was so impressed that he hired him.

[Jeremy Minton]

Yea I didn't mention that to him, never even noticed. I paid more attention to his defense when he gave up on plays and didn't follow through. I am sure he will appriciate this advice. Thank you very much.. anyone else?

[Insex]

I know this thread was originally created a few days ago, but I hope it's not too late to offer comments.

I mostly played Defensive End back in high school. I've played against many good Offensive Linemen, and I know what it's like to play Defensive End and Defensive Tackle. So hopefully my comments/advice can help him out.

First off, is he 6-foot or 6'2"? Because in this thread, you say he's 6'2", but in his video it says he's 6-foot. Which one is it? If he's looking to get recruited, he should change the video to say he's 6'2". Most big schools are looking for big guys. They would much rather take a guy who is 6'2" than a guy who is 6'0". If he's unable to change the first slide, he has to make sure that he let's recruiters know that the highlight video was made at a time when he was shorter, that he's grown a lot since then, and that he's really 6'2" and is still growing. Recruiters will really like to hear that.

Okay, now for the video. The video quality is as good as it's going to get. I've spent countless hours in college watching films of our opponents, and the video quality is the same that I'm used to. However, things move a little fast around the 3:30 mark. Either the camera man started re-recording late or your friend didn't allow enough time before the ball snapped while editing the video. Also, during the defensive half of the video, it sometimes goes back to showing offensive plays instead.

On offense, your friend Billy looks good. He looks dominant in all the plays (although, this is a highlight video, and not a full-length game film). He gets off the ball quickly, drives through his opponent, and is very aggressive. My only advice is that he make better use of his hands, and just as Gman said, stay low! So many high school kids make the mistake of not getting low enough. Also, he needs to continue moving his feet while blocking, even if the opponent is not being pushed back. There were a few times where he was standing there fighting with an opponent, and it looked as if his feet were stuck in the ground.

On defense however, it's a different story. Billy doesn't look like the same player he was on offense. I don't know if it's because he's physically tired from playing both ways (I would know, Defensive Line is the most physically demanding position in football, bar none) or if he doesn't like to play defense at all. A couple examples:

- At 6:16, he's the last Defensive Lineman to get set before the snap. One second after he finally got set, the ball was snapped. Once the ball was snapped, his first step was too big and he stood straight up. Most importantly, he didn't fire off the line very quickly, and he was the last Defensive Lineman to get across the line of scrimmage. Actually, it was more like the line of scrimmage came to him instead. Had he fired off the line of scrimmage like a mad man, he would have sacked the Quarterback in time while he was doing the fake handoff, and prevented a big play for the offense.

- At 7:23, same thing happens. When the ball is snapped, he doesn't explode off the line of scrimmage. The line of scrimmage comes to him instead, and he stands straight up. When he engages with the Offensive Lineman from the other team, he gets knocked backwards because he was standing too high. For that specific play, he should have exploded off the ball. Then once he knew where the Running Back was going, he could have either thrown the blocker out of the way, done a rip move, or done a swim move to get to the ballcarrier.

At 7:41, he doesn't explode off the line of scrimmage, again. He's also too high, again. Had he exploded through the line of scrimmage and stayed low when the ball was snapped, he would have made the tackle all by himself.

That's about all I can offer at this time. If I were his coach, I could teach him a few moves as well as proper technique. But I'm not his coach and I live all the way out here in California. But I hope your friend takes these comments the right way and works on his technique (if he's playing again next season). It's only constructive criticism, and it's designed to help him, not humiliate him.