4-2-5 Adjustments to One-back

We are going to double 3 techs this year vs. even front 1 back or Double tight teams as our base rule. Scouting report may dictate differently of course.

a couple of things i forgot to mention:
1. we will reroute either by alignment or with a jam on # 2 trying to run down the seam. never let a receiver run down the seams. force the ball to be thrown wider and with more arc, this allows both the cb and f/s to coverge on the ball. we have never worried about 4 verticals. of coursed we repped this until the cows came home. we stole this from LSU when Saban was there. i always find it funny at clinics when coaches say the "standard clinic statement": you can't play cover 3 vs. 4 verticals.
2. we will vary our alignments of the DT's, 31, 13, 22, we will also jump around from one to another and then slant the DT back to the original alignment.
3. if we have physical S/S and they align with a TE or 2 TE then we will play 9 techniques. if they are smaller and not as physical, then we will play 7 techniques with the DE. Arkansas and Arizona State used to do this when they ran a 425.
as you can tell, we are some of the biggest thiefs around. ain't to smart to think of it own my own.LOL
just finished talking with the head coach at a school here in La. that won their 2nd title and are main stays in the quarter and semi finals. all they play is 4-3 cover 3. he does the things that i posted above also. of course he has alot better players than we got. LOL

what we told our S/S is that as you drop and # 2 is running up the seam knock him out of his cleats. then carry on to the curl ( which is what you call the flats ). don't chase any route that is away from you whether it is inside or outside. we don't run with him for a set determined yardage. what we get after the initial hit is that on other times he is running down the seam he is avoiding either inside or outside the S/S. which is what we want because it causes a delay in the qb's release. now this doesn't happen every time, but it is what we work on.
i am not concerned about someone hitting the hitch to beat us.

in your scheme, you are you going to drop down? are you going to look like Va. Tech and drop down the weak safety and kick the LB strong or drop down the Strong Safety and kick the LB weak?
we have done it both ways. i am just curious as to what you are going to do. we run both the 43 and the 425 and how we are going to get to it this year is by dropping down our S/S to the weakside and kick the LB strong. we are going to call it 67 C - 3 weak.
anyway back to your questions...
1. we blitz both OLB to pitch-force; to QB-spill.
2. we blitz both ILB in their assigned gaps; and cross blitz them into each others gaps ( one delays as to let the other one go first )
3. we blitz the WILB off the edge from the weakside.
4. we blitz the OLB and ILB from the same side into various gaps.
our blitz rules (which apply to both the 43 and 425) is that the strong side DT will always stunt into A gap strong unless a LB is going there. any blitz from the outside the LB will make an "Eddie" call telling the DE to stunt into the inside gap. we also have some rules for blitz calls which tells the DL where to go if we call an "IN", "X", "OUT" with any of the blitzes. we run the same blitzes from the 43 as well as the 425. their names are Slam (stinger and Mac), Wimp (Mac and Wolf inside), Wham (Mac and Wolf outside), Saw (Stinger and Wolf), Womb (Wolf and Bandit) and Sob (Stinger and Bandit). our Stinger is the SOLB, Mac is the SILB, the Wolf is the WILB, and Bandit is the WOLB.
we also, zone blitz some but don't drop a DE, we may do that this year but it will based on personnel. what we have done is to blitz one LB and drop the others to the Curl, Hook-3, Curl zones. one rule is that if we have a zone blitz from an OLB and he has to cover an inside receiver we make a "Tag" call and he moves out to the Curl drop and the ILB will walk outside and blitz.
we blitz based on scouting report and personnel matchups. i know that may not answer your question. but it is hard to explain how often.

the double te wishbone is one that has been discussed quite often. what i have found that most 425 teams do is to the weakside play either a 1, 5, 9 or 1 , 7, and leave the OLB 2 x 2. one of the things that has been widely argued is the alignment of the OLB if he is a 9 techn. some play him tight, others play him loose as in 1 x 1 off of the TE with his inside foot up. University of Louisiana at Lafayette plays theirs some times to the weakside a 1, 7, 1 x 1. we are going to look at this.
i gotta go, my 3 month old is going to wake the dead with his crying. if you want to discuss further .... fire it up. a friend of mine who runs the 425 exclusively is visiting today. and he thinks he has all of the answers.LOL

SMD,What school in Louisiana do you coach for?Ever played a true stack vs a full house double tight team?It is a good change up for us.GO CAJUNS!!!!!!

Coach LO,
I coach in Leesville, La. and i have never run a true stack.