Can anyone explain this wide receiver drill?

[mc52beast]

Breaking out the broom early, gonna be a 3peat in the NFCS

[bandu]

I'd probably have to see more than just that pic to say for certain.

Our old receiver coach used to have guys catch bricks.  It was literally "If you can catch a brick, you can catch a ball."

Jerry Rice father was a brick mason....just saying

[Mr. Scot]

And how far was said brick thrower away from the receiver? So many questions I want to ask

Couldn't tell ya. I never saw it. Only heard about it.

Google 'Fred Graves'. You might find some info.

[Mr. Scot]

Jerry Rice father was a brick mason....just saying

And legend says that's how he learned to catch.

True? No idea.

[CPantherKing]

And legend says that's how he learned to catch.

True? No idea.

​Sounds like your coach studied Jerry Rice. The use of bricks to work a receiver is done to control their focus. You throw them a ball and they can easily take their eyes off it. You throw them a brick and you guarantee their eyes and hands will be working together. If this drill is used, it is typically the first drill for the receivers.

As for the broom drill, it is meant to release off the line quickly and can be used with a chicken wing or stemming technique. You must release off the line and get by the DB without touching the DB with the end of the broom. So, the broom must be vertical when passing the DB. If used with a chicken wing a big receiver can get his body weight into the DB while turning his chest to the ball and back to the DB.  This allows for a transfer of weight to work and push off the DB without any arm extension.

 

[Jeremy Igo]

Looks more like a stretching exercise than a drill to me.

[coralreefer_1]

Some of these ideas seems spot on, yet i cant help but wonder....dont we have just simple plain wooden poles, or otherwise plastic...or something else other than an actual fuggin broom to do the drill with?

 

The fact it is a real broom suggest that either (a) It was suddenly thought up...(b) we dont have the proper equipment to run the drills, or (c) and my personal favorite, the bristle action of a real broom does something or has an effect we dont know about yet~