stoping fooot-to-foot splits power and counter

Well, I will start by saying this was my 1st year coordinating, but I have coached DL for years.

We had this exact situation arise (foot-to-foot splits). Now, I sell out to the slant no matter. We teach wrong arming the slant so I believe this is effective versus anything the offense may do (cut-blocking not withstanding). Our slant tech. is ear hole of next man over (nothing new I know), but against the foot-to-foot we moved in a little more and worked with a lower aiming point. We focused contact on inside rib cage to breast plate, just under the pec. We felt this allowed us to get a better aiming point on the man as well as reducing the aiming point of the off-O Lineman we were slanting from.

This may not be what others would do, but it is what we tried. Keep in mind, with Foot-to-foot it does cause some scrims, but sometimes those turn-out in our favor. It’s a crap shoot sometimes when facing foot-to-foot.

As for stunting, I pick and choose when to try, but it is hard to be effective inside versus foot-to-foot. Would some delay stuff work? Maybe giving a crease or two time to open? You know high school O Linemen; they never get it right every time…LOL!