DLine stunts

There are a lot of people who stunt out of 4-3's. Some are sound in what they do and others don't bother with replacement of the blitz man. I always try to run some kind of zone blitz to cover myself. I like heat but will not sacrifice it for the sake of being sound.
Now as far as slanting goes I have a reference point of the near knee of the direction you are heading. We read the guy that we are going to on the run. We look at his feet if they come to us we fight pressure, if they go away we run the heel line. If they drop we rip with the near shoulder and get up field. I only teach those three reads. I keep it simple for my guys. The technique has been pretty successful for the last 15 years. Another thing to consider when slanting is the offenses alignment. If they are backed off on the ball your slant will create gaps if you use that aiming point. You must adjust to A, B, C alignments. For instance CalAllen is backed way off the ball. Slanting agains them is useless if you use the afore mentioned angle. There you must slant flat into the LOS to get the same desired result as before.
I always try to keep in mind if we slant strong to have our WLB scrape for weakside contain. What usually happens is that we will set our Rover strong and slant weak to keep contain on both sides in passing situations.
Hope this helps,
Mr. Intense

One other thing to remember for a defensive lineman running any type of stunt is to get skinny in the hole and to get his shoulders out of parellel with the LOS as quickly as possible. Coach CAmpbell

Absolutely.

You can do all kinds of things with one, two or more linemen, interior only, ends only, ends/backers, etc.

Also can do a simple zone blitz combined with a stunt to really cause confusion.

COACH,
YOUR VIDEO SOUNDS GOOD. HOW DO YOU GET A COPY ?

SANDMAN

Coach Golla,

I watched two of your videso (EDD and the Stimulus Response) - excellent and very teachable to all levels.
I have a few ?'s
What are you EDD for the )-line on offensive days?
When you played the wing-t teams what D did you play? We will run a 4-3 conver 3 this year. Any suggestion on base alignments and slants vs. wing-t team.

Thanks,

D.C.