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This Saturday, Lehigh football fans will finally get a chance to get a free sneak peek at the 2016 Mountain Hawks at Murray Goodman stadium. Scheduled to start at 11:00AM, it will be a bit of a different spring game than usual, due to the fact that it will be a no-tackling practice , unlike the one I happened to catch that was partial tackling. "We never had a full practice that was all tackling," head coach Andy Coen told Lehighsports.com.  "I picked about three practices where he had at times, full contact. We never put ourselves in a situation where we were doing too much. I do believe if you want to get good at these things, you have to practice them. We've been using a lot of the techniques that the Seattle Seahawks have utilized over the last couple of years, and those techniques have been very productive for us.  We're getting a lot better with our technique and are coaches are doing a great job of staying on top of our kids regarding technique....

From early in practice on Friday, when the 2016 Mountain Hawks were performing tackling drills on what looked like huge red padded human-sized donuts, the defense brought the energy to the practice field on what was a beautiful Friday afternoon in the Lehigh Valley. From the drills to the scrimmages, rising senior LB Colton Caslow and rising  senior CB Brandon Leaks  stood out in terms of their energy level, flying to the ball. On one play during the scrimmage I saw, Caslow nearly took out someone holding up a down marker as he left his feet, trying to get at the offensive player. On another, Leaks made a break on his receiver to give the Brown side a chance to crow against the White-jerseyed offense. Though the contact has been "very limited", coach Coen said the tackling practices have been making a difference thus far in the spring season. "I was very happy with our defense," head coach Andy Coen told me.  "I believe our veteran players really ...