Post by New MD Youth Coach on Sept 11, 2008 10:06:11 GMT
Coaches,
I am learning more and more everyday coaching the defense. But I am still trying to grasp when to dial up a blitz to stop the run. We run the wide tackle 6 with the 2 LB's keying the nearbacks. The only blitzes we have practiced have been one of the LB's through his B Gap (Which is the Gap he is responsible for), or a CB blitz through the C Gap in which the DT crashes the B. Of course this can only be called if there are no WR's on the blitzing CB's side.
Although we don't plan to blitz much at all, the problem I am facing is if for instance we're getting beat by "off tackles" and "counters"....What blitz should be called for what type of run? I realize that some will be a hit or miss, but I wouldn't want to jeopardize the team by constantly making the wrong call. One play during a scrimmage I called the LB blitz (B Gap) and we got burned on that same side he blitzed. He would have normally been keying the back that ran it.
I am learning more and more everyday coaching the defense. But I am still trying to grasp when to dial up a blitz to stop the run. We run the wide tackle 6 with the 2 LB's keying the nearbacks. The only blitzes we have practiced have been one of the LB's through his B Gap (Which is the Gap he is responsible for), or a CB blitz through the C Gap in which the DT crashes the B. Of course this can only be called if there are no WR's on the blitzing CB's side.
Although we don't plan to blitz much at all, the problem I am facing is if for instance we're getting beat by "off tackles" and "counters"....What blitz should be called for what type of run? I realize that some will be a hit or miss, but I wouldn't want to jeopardize the team by constantly making the wrong call. One play during a scrimmage I called the LB blitz (B Gap) and we got burned on that same side he blitzed. He would have normally been keying the back that ran it.
