Coach Easton, How would you defend the Counter Trey?

blitz

Thanks, Tiger One,

Would you blitz the pullers side only or opposite as well.

Coach D

Anything c gap or tighter can cause problems. A mike backer that knows what he is doing can really mess things up, slanting the line can help too. We have a call that allows our dl to penetrate into the backfield in their gap responsibility and we have had succcess with that against any offense that pulls alot. If the guard can't get to the kick out then there is usually a man standing in the hole.

I WOULDN'T BLITZ AT ALL. I WOULD RATHER STAY IN PROPER ALIGNMENT AND HAVE EACH GUY DO HIS JOB. JUST MY WAY.

Coach Easton-TIGER ONE

football m3h,

If your question is for me, I don't run a 30 stack at all.

Coach Easton-TIGER ONE

Tiger One,

What do you run? 4-2-5?

Coach D

We feel we need 3 men doing their job to stop CT (arguably the best play in footbal).

1) Force player outside the first puller.

2) Fill player (playside ILB for us) between the first and second players.

3) Cutback player (backside ILB for us) inside the second puller.

That said, our best results have come when the 7 tech whips the TE's block and makes the tackle.

Coach Easton,

I agree 100% that the backside DL need to do just as you described. As LBs, we cannot count on them making the play for us every time though and we need to be sound in our reactions as well.

The man who makes it work is the play side ILB. He must get a good read and attack the LOS with his horse saddled. We expect him to drive off his inside foot and put his inside shoulder through the second puller. His aiming point is the spine of that second puller. This should force the RB back inside toward the backside DT who is chasing as you say and the other ILB who fits inside that second puller.

Some try to spill the play to the outside and chase it down out there. That approach can be sound, especially for the cover 2 teams who have the CB out there to spill it to.

-Scott

Coaches,

Those of you who run a 4-2-5, let's talk a little defense for a change up here on the forum. One of the coaches asked just recently how do I adjust to an unbalanced line formation? Diagrammed below is what I came up with years ago that has worked quite well for us over the years. WE CALL IT 42 GREEN AND IT IS DESIGNED AS A TYPICAL SHIFT TO STRENGTH. Our 42 regular alignment in the PSL has a 5 and a 3 on the backside, a 3 and a 7 on the front side, the two backers between the guards at 4 yds, our twin safties that we call TIGER BACKS are in the flats at 3 yds off the LOS and 5 yds wide, our corners are rolled up hard with inside leverage playing bump and run, and our FS in the MOF at 10-12 yds. Knowing that, the changes for this 42 Green become self evident.





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