Simple two box drill, where you pass square, advance, then pass back square. This is done over two boxes to start to open up players vision in on field situation
Once players are following drill, add coach to top of circle, and get player1 to identify what coach is doing (i.e. hold up either left or right arm). This forces player one to look left and open up his field of vision.
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