Weak and strong side Players

We don't care if a team trades the TE or the strength most of the time. Their is little difference between our ends and our OLB's. We have a strongside and weakside (DE, DT, OLB), but we teach both sides to play the same. Teams will try to trade the TE and run powers or traps, but since we play all DL positions the same it usually isn't a problem. The weak end plays the power just like the strong end and we rep our shade defensive tackle to play the trap just like our 3 technique. Our offense trades the TE fairly often so we see it in the Spring a lot. My feelings are if the offense can get you running around just to get lined up they already have an advantage. If a team trades on us we simply bump the entire DL and OLB's become the opposite. The SLB becomes the WLB and vice versa. MLB jump bumps over from A-Gap to A-Gap and we play ball.