The Nutcracker and other NFL drills not intended for your back yard
If you want to attend San Francisco 49ers training camp, you had best hide your nuts. Because coach Mike Singletary wants to crack ‘em. He already did it to Patrick Willis — the 49ers linebacker rolled his ankle during Singletary’s Nutcracker drill on the first day of training camp.
Singletary said in the offseason he wants the Niners to play physical with an “F” and there is perhaps no better example than the Nutcracker. The drill, passed down from Vince Lombardi to Singletary’s Bears teams and now to the Niners, is certainly a test of strength.
Two players line up against each other. They launch into each other. They try to knock each other over.
That’s pretty much it.
So, with our blood thirst rising like Frank Gore’s, we wondered what other colorfully named, rip-your-head-off drills were out there at NFL training camps. There are lots of sites that will tell you about some NFL drills to practice with your intramural flag football squad, but we weren’t looking for that. We wanted the big boy drills. One of them is even called the Country Boy Workout. So strap on your helmets, smack each others’ shoulder pads, and come along on a brutal ride through training camp.
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By Peter on Wednesday, August 19th, 2009 at 10:55 am.
Tags: San Francisco 49ers
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