Attacking the 3-3 with zone blocking

DITTO for the "COUNTER/POWER" SERIES!

Lots of ways to go here! Taking for granted your diagram indicates that the LB's are stacked behind the 5's and the nose, inside zone with thought "cram the B gap" uppermost in your RB;s mind popped right out first. align the H back on the right side of formation at 2 yds. deep and 2 yds wide (this example with monster on same side as your TE. Your receiver will stalk CB. The H back will go directly to monster. Your Y end and ST will trey the five to Sam backer. Play side guard and Center will ace the nose to Mike. BSG will go to Will Backer, PST will turn out on 5 tech. What we are looking for here is SURE 5 yds. or so. To turn it into the stretch or outside zone play would even be easier with the same blocking and having your RB read the frontside 5 to monster and turning it into a sweep if the blocks are washing them down inside. The Z's block on CB becomes critical if this happens and I always coach them to take him whereever he wants to go and let the RB make his cut accordingly. This is just what jumped out at me, I'm sure Bill will have a great breakdown for you on the Power/Counter series as well.

Coach Easton

Try the ISO.

Have the Playside G and C combo the NG to the MLB. The PST blocks on or gap away, with the FB going for the stacked LB over the 5.

We've seen alot of the 30 stack in my 7 years of coaching the OL. We find it helpful to assign each player a GAP, as opposed to a defender. They will block the defender who comes into that gap area, as the idea of the stacks in my mind is to confuse man assignments by creating 2 way go's for the DL & LB. This works both for the run game and pass protection and follows the KISS principle.

Using motion, and going into 3X1 type looks often 'breaks' the stacks... and then as OneBack said you go at it like a 34.

Last year we saw one team start the game in the 3-5 defense and we hurt them with the zone play. The TE blocked out on the spur who was in a 3x3 alignment off of the TE. The OT and OG combo to the 5 and the stack LB. The center and BS OG combo to the nose and stack Lb. BS OT flat step into B gap and blocked the B gap defender. (If the BS 5 tried to slant hard inside the OT would stay on him, if the stack BS Lb tried to run through B gap the OT blocked him) We ran it from under center and from the gun.

JD

Tiger,

Track season is taking up way too much time!!!! We have had meets everyother day for 2 weeks now and St. Cloud State Univ. is having Wednesday night football coaching clinics, so my computer time has been lacking. The temp was in the high 60's today and we might even see 70's on the weekend.

Good to hear from you tiger!!

JD

Tiger,

How many pre-season and regular season games do you play?

Yes, I cannot wait until things slow down so I can get back onto the board on a daily basis again. Everyday on this board is just like attending a coaches clinic.

JD

Tiger,

Is there a way for us to listen to the games over the web? or how about a web address for the league so I can follow your team into the summer. Best of luck.

JD

JD,

League Wesite= seafl.net (click on ticker tape on picture of red bull dog with spike collar) our team is the Carolina Red Dawgs. Weekly results are available throughout the season which begins the 3rd week of July. We open with our first two games on the road, both in North Carolina. Both teams made the playoffs, the second game opponent made it to the Championship game two years ago and the second round this past season. We have to start somewhere, may as well be with the good teams right off the bat I guess. If your going to be the best, you have to beat the best. We will see how all this work pays off, usually pays pretty good dividends.

JC

TOG,
If everyone was honest, the big ones are always on the cutback,imo, but stuffing the B gap is going to be our bread and butter this season. We just had a great practice, full contact going in from the 50, Power team going in from the 20, Middle drill, 7 on 7 and finished with full 5 wide 3 x 2 and for the first contact scrimmage I was totally pleased with my QB's and receivers. O line pass blocked well, a little shaky on our power plays, trapped really well for first actual contact work getting 7-8 yds. a pop on a special trap I run called 20 lead trap where the RB gets the ball out of the "I" and not the FB. Popped one for 21 yds. But, as usual, my spread was the big yardage getter, hit 3 for 40 + yds. Worked 3 QB's all with different skills and they all did very well, I was pleased. We have a long way to go, but just completed our 23rd week of off season preparation and we are doing our best to get ready!

Coach Easton

JD,

Glad you enjoyed the site, will do my best to put us in the win column as much as possible. Had a great work out today on field, 7 segments of contact ranging from 50 going in with 1st offense, 20 going in with POWER TEAM, middle drill, 7 on 7, and 20 minutes of my 3 x 2 (team 11 on 11). Our 0 line blocked decently for the first real scrimmage in full pads, blocked the traps well, was a little shaky on power plays, but excelled in pass blocking our spread attack. Hit 3 for 40 + yards. I was WELL PLEASED WITH OUR DEFENSE FOR THE FIRST REAL HITTING, but as you know this time of year they are always ahead of the offense. Overall scrimmage grade would be probably a B- .

JC