4-3 on TRIPS

Cover 4

CB- deep 1/4
Safeties- deep 1/4
Outside Linebacker to trips side- buzz the flat from base position.
Mike- open to trips side, hook to curl
Outside Linebacker away from trips side- curl to flat--jump the slant.

That's what we do and we allowed 10 touchdowns in 10 games!

What Lou Cella suggests is good. An adjusted Cover 4. Many play Cover 3/Sky (pre-rotated) to Trips!

We do several things....We do something similar to what Coach Cella mentioned....and we also run what i call a loaded cover 2 to the trips and man up backside with will clogging the slant window. we take our rover(weak side safety) to the trips sidewalk him down on 2, corner on 1 and safety over the top. we will designate from game to game(ours vs theirs) who has what responsibility..sometimes rover has low flat and corner running with deep outside rte and safety taking any dbl vertical threat or crosser...very simple for our kids....love to ehar more on this as i am very low on the IQ scale....

What are the most common WR routes/concepts that you see out of Trips?

we will play quarter to the trips side and halfs to the single reciever side.

Lou is correct. We play a team that used to send the receivers vertical but bend the inside receiver to the middle of the field. This put our FS in a bind. What made it more difficult was that their QB was an exceptional athlete. If you ace a team that uses a lot of trips but is also effecive at running the ball out of trips, then you are facing a difficult task.

Also, there have been a lot o great ideas posted. However, I think all of our schemes vs. trips work because they are taught well and the kids are not over thinkin situations. I strongly believe that is the most important aspect of defense. When it comes time for the game, the kids should be able to react almost without thinking. At least this has been my experience as a DC over the last 5 years.

Coach Tiger One, would you refer 2 this as Blowing the Top off of the Coverage??:cool;

Lou,

I look forward to hearing from you tomorrow. As for my defensive philosophy, I will start of with my motto, "If we score, we might win; if they don't score, we can't lose."

It is hard to put into words my exact philosophy, but I will try. Of all of the coaches I have listened to and talked to in regards to defense have all said the same thing. You need to stop or at least contain a teams running attack. I really spend a lot of time working on this. I do preach about not giving up big plays and also winning on 3rd down. I would have to say though, that I have lived off of stopping the run. That is where I spend most of our time during the week. I also think it is extremely important for your players to be able to react faster than the offense by effectively teaching them what to do. I would not necessarily say any one scheme allowed us to be as good as we were. I think we just took pride in preparing ourselves week to week. My players did not need to think about too much. I ran on average no more than 3 to 4 fronts each week and then we would hit our groove and stay in 1 front the rest of the game. I really beliee in keeping it simple and allowing th eplayers to play. But, I do try to put our guys in winning situations. I hope this answers your question. I would enjoy talking more about what I do.

Again, I look forward to hearing from you.

Lioncoach,

I have been using the 4-3 for over 5 years now. I would be interested in comparing notes. I have my playbook on Adobe Pagemaker and could sent it to you for a trade if you can open it or we could do mail if you are interested. You can e-mail me at matthew.evancho@svpanthers.org

I look forward to hearing from you.

Lou,

When I go to the 4-4 look, I have my LB read the backs. Even in the 4-3, I have them read the backs. It is something I picked up in my reading research. I can find the article if you are interested. The only time I slightly change this is when we play a wing t team.

Any, in the 4-4, the two ILBs read FB. I basically teach them to get on the path of the FB and double team him. One ILB on the outside shoulder and the other on the inside shoulder. The 2 OLBs will read the TB. There main job is to attack the outside or deepest shoulder of the TB. Obviously, there are many different things to do. This has worked for me. Nothing beats, however, finding that tendency that the other team has. I have been lucky enough to find one against every opponent.