Spread Midine vs. 3-5-3

Do they run the dive to the same side they are running the option to?

what I was thinking was putting a guy over both guards and a guy over both tackles and pinching them. Have the Mike take Dive too. Then widen the Sam and Will LB's to take QB. Dogs will split the difference with the inside receiver.

Basically a 4-3 with each D-lineman pinching. The only problem I see is no Free Safety.

What do you guys think? I am not as worried about them passing as I am running, so I guess I have to pick my poision.

Coming from an option guy the 3-5 gives us alot of problems when we go to the 4 wide under center. If the defenders are in gaps we can still do some good damage but when the 3-5 goes to a stack defense it gets relatively ugly.

The reason is that our playside guard helps the center with the nose, working towards the Middle backer.

Our Tackle becomes the issue. If he releases under the End and the end closes he cannot stop the outside backer from going around and drilling our quarterback after the pull. If the Tackle releases around the End and up to the Outside Backer and the End takes away the pull there is noone to stop the outside backer from getting a nice hit on our Fullback. We still might get a couple yards but I don't like my fullback getting hit by a truck on a regular basis.

We've had to develop a rather complex speed option that isn't great but should get us atleast 5 every time.

The Quarterback Follow and a double seal fullback give play mix things up a bit against the 3-5 but that is not what we always want to do.

Your 4-3 defense doesn't sound bad but you are giving up the middle deep so if they can pass you gotta pressure.

Greenough's 5-2 is also good because you are getting 7 on 6 in the box but something we've been working on defensively that could help is to stack your backers. One at 4 and another at 8 and run a tampa 2 defensive with that 50 front. Pittsburgh Steeler style.