Blocking the IV from Flexbone

Coach Allore,

If you take Coach Cella's advice and change the PST's rule to "INSIDE," then he will end up on the MLB. Keep in mind that the PST should take a good inside release step (to avoid the DE) and work straight upfield...the MLB will come to him. That makes the OLB (Sam/Will) the pitch key. By the way, controlling the MLB one of the keys to attacking the 4-3...make sure you have some things in place to beat him when he flies over the top too fast.

kc

Cory, glad to hear that the veer worked well. It is the best play in football and it is very difficult to stop the veer as long as you can execute all three phases of it and have complimentary plays to take advantage of pinching 5 techniques, crashing inverts, and a secondary forcing to the perimeter.

If you are going to run midline vs. a 50, which I don't. You will base the center on the nose, have the guards block the inside linebackers and have the tackle veer release and track the playside linebacker to free safety. If you use a tight end or slotback, he will work to the near safety. The fullback will read the center's block and move accordingly. I would check to veer vs. a 50, because you have better angels to run veer.

vs. a 6-2 The center will block backside #1, the backside guard will block backside #2, and the backside tackle will block backside #3. The guard will block the inside linebacker--if he flows to the b-gap, he will work to the backside linebacker, the tackle high walls the 5 technique, and the tight end or slotback will track the inside linebacker to the free safety. Midline will work well vs. a 6-2 pending the 6-2 does not include an a-gap down lineman. If it does, check veer.

Good luck this week!

Coach Cella,
When you say A gap veer as oppose to the B gap veer I am assuming that you mean the following:
A gap veer is aiming for the A gap (navy veer)
B gap veer is aiming at the PSG butt crack. (air force veer)
Am I correct in my assumptions? If not then please let me know what you do mean. Finally, why would you run the A gap as oppose to the B gap?
Thanks
Karjaw