44 VS Double Wing Offense

READ and REACT!! While the Dbl wing can be a very powerful offense it can be stopped if your players can make their reads.

Coachtom are you refering to a Double Tight, Double Wing offense like Markham or (the other guys name is escaping me right now)? We face that type of offense twice a year. This past year we ran a 4-4 against it and had pretty good success. Neither team was able to run the ball consistently, but one was able to throw it quite well as we couldn't match up athletically against it.

What we did was we flipped our traditional DE's and DT's around, so we had our quicker DL playing the 2 DT's and aligning head up on the GD's. There job was to play trap and try to get in the hip pocket of the pulling GD, which we weren't able to do, but by forcing the Center to block back on one DT, and the GD blocking the other, a crease was opening right over the center's orignal alignment. We blitzed that crease a few times with good success. Our DE's then were to attack the TE and drive back or at least get a stalemate. Once again we had put our biggest and strogest at this position. Our OLB"S were aligned 1 yard off the LOS, head up on the WB's, if motion to them, they moved up to the LOS and blitzed aiming to (trap) the FB on his KO path, blocking the pulling GD and Tackle from getting around the down blocking TE. If we did that well, we bounced the basic toss play and cleaned it up with our CB and pursing LB's. CB's read WB for pass or the down block on the OLB, which signified Sweep. The FS read the TE towards the motion for the pass, run reads. LB's read FB to GD and played from a depth of 4 yards.

Hope some of that helps

Coach Wassman

No, we didn't slant them, as we felt that left us vulnerable to trap and to wedge. Their job was to stop trap. We played c/3 until motion occured and then we became man, you could easily play a cover two and roll up the CB where the motion is coming to. The only pass that hurt us from their base formation was an explode pass where there isn't any motion and the 2 TE's run seam routes and the WB's run flags. The QB did a good job of looking off the FS and through to the backside TE.

Have you ever used a 7 man line vs it?

COACH EM,

Word of caution, take it or leave it. If you move your safeties over the TE's as you say, any QB worth his salt will make you pay for that mistake. Just my opinion as always.

Coach Easton

Play a true 4-4 stack is a changeup we use.Tackles head up on the Guard's LB's stacked behind them;Defensive Ends head up over the TE's OLB's stacked behind them.Play games with stunts and blitzes,cover-3 behind it.We also play 2's and 7's and walk up the OLB's over the WB's and play a 6-2.I like to tell the DT's they are responsible for wedge and trap,DE's have off-tackle plays,OLB's try to funnel everything inside while making it hard for the WB's to get off the L.O.S. and let the LB's read guard's and run everything down.Attack all pulling players with force and try to blow it up in the backfield.Let the down linemen try to take down to offensive players so noone gets to 2nd level.

BOND,

As an ex-QB and lifelong QB coach, QB's are taught to ALWAYS TAKE ADVANTAGE OF A MIDDLE OF THE FIELD OPEN SITUATION. Receivers are taught to read, in my offense, as well and are coached to get into the middle of the field if it is open. By taking your FS out of the middle of the field to cover a tight end, a dropping LB will be the only other guy to cover the middle of the field, right? A good receiver should be able to win that matchup most often. Granted, you have covered the double tites, but what if your CB can't run with the WR and needs that Safety to roll over and help him, on say a post corner for example? He can't do that if he has the TE responsibility, right? That's basically my thinking. We pray for a MOFO situation.

Coach Easton