Stopping the speed Sweep

Coach,
This year that fly sweep was big where we are at. It seemed everyone we played had it. What we saw was the fly sweep with the Iso of the Running backs. So they would hand off the fly or give to the iso to keep our lb honest. We Run a version of the 4-3 and our saftey is force so he really blew up that fly every time. We never expect our end to contain any sweep, even though we tell him he can't be reached. Who ever our force player is will get lots of reps to stop that fly. Of its a 4-4 our olb will be responsible etc...

Hope that helps.

Yes. I have been looking at the cover, would it not be more beneficial to have that safety already close to the line to play the jet sweep as opposed to having him play the alley on it? How would you defend the jet sweep, using cover 2.

Our base D is a 5-2 and we did well against the jet sweep as long as our ends did their jobs and kept outside leverage. We treat a slot like a tight end and never go deeper than 1 yd in the backfield. Most of the time we simply strung the play out till help came.