Defensive Coordinator's Football Handbook

Defensive Coordinator's Football Handbook is a complete guide for football coaches. The information contained in the book has been compiled by Leo Hand during 47 years of coaching championship teams at both the high school and collegiate levels. Numerous topics are covered that will enable any coach to successfully understand and defend modern offenses. Including:

An overview of contemporary offensive trends
A system for identifying offensive formations and personnel groupings
A system for creating multiple defensive fronts and secondary coverages
The base reads, reactions, and techniques for defensive linemen and linebackers
Synopses of the responsibilities and techniques necessary to install different odd and even eight-man and seven-man fronts
Run responsibilities and techniques for both three-deep and four-deep secondaries
Strategies and tactics necessary to stop 19 of today s most potent running plays
An explanation of the adjustments and techniques necessary to install variations of man-to-man pass coverages as well as variations of zone and combo pass coverages versus different contemporary offensive formations
Different stunt strategies that enable your defense to actually attack the offense
Sample pass coverage/stunt menus for: the 3-3-5, 4-2-5, bear 46, 3-4, 4-3, and weak eagle defenses

Leo Hand has coached championship teams at both the high school and college levels during his 46 years of coaching. As a head high school coach in California, he coached teams that were ranked in USA Today s Super 25 and won 81 percent of their games, a state championship, and numerous league championships. During his tenure as the offensive coordinator at Los Angeles Harbor College, the Seahawks posted an 8-3 record, were ranked number 27 in the United States, and won a K-Swiss Bowl at a school that hadn't been to a bowl game in 20 years. A former Golden Glove boxing champion and linebacker at Emporia State University, Hand holds a master s degree from the College of Saint Thomas.