4-2-5 def

I coach in Louisiana.I live by the multiple 4-2-5 defense.I will trade film with you E-Mail me lotiefs@bellsouth.net

Comet,

For me it has always been pretty much semantics. For example, we allude to our twin SS'S as DB's, not LB's and thus we are in a nickel most of the time. If we want a dime package instituted, we pull a LB and insert the 6th DB. From our "Dallas 42" (4-2-5) we can stem easily by moving our twin SS'S around, walking them up to the LOS on goal line and short yardage situations, etc. much as the 4-4 advocates do.
In my scheme, our twin SS's have 3 assignments on every play (contain on the sweep, pitch on the option, flats on the pass) and have to be the best athletes on the defensive side of the ball, where in a conventional defense the CB's are alluded to as the best athletes in most cases. The NFL teams will tell you now days, they are not interested in the CB's, they worry about the safeties!

Coach Easton

Here again the 3 yd rule applies. If the wing aligns no further out than 3 yds. your DE aligns on his outside shoulder. If he expands further than 3 yds. out, your DE comes right back in and aligns on the OT a a 5 tech, and the wing now becomes the responsibility of the SS on his side. You can't play effectively, imo, with a 7 against both a TE and a WB. The defense's job is to contain them both and not let them out as a free release receiver. See if this doesn't work well for you.

Coach Easton

On your first post you said if the wing is within three yards the End slides to his outside shoulder. That would leave us with a 3 and an uncovered tackle, an uncovered tight end, and a DE on the wings outside shoulder. That's a big bubble!!! Do you mean this is your adjustment to the split side with no tight end? That makes a little more sense to me. On your second post you say the 7 moves to a six and the SS up to the WB. Do you basically play him in a 9 on the wing, or is he 1x1, 2x2, etc.? Is the six now two gap responsible or is he still c-gap?