Question for Coach Mountjoy

43under look. We just call it 50. We like it too.

Its a nice balanced front. I like and use it to against DT teams so they can't outflank me on the LOS. We call it 50. Every front we call is named with the Tackle and Nose alignment. 31,13,22,33,11, 50. Stud and Evil are always in their 7/5 techs except 50.

We call the 43Under -- 50. I end up with 9,5,0,5 with our front 4. My Blade (Whip) is the Weak DE so he is the 5th guy on the line (weak side DE). My Razor (Rover) is 3x4 strong, Buc (Backer) 20, Mike 20. I will replace my Evil with another Stud if he can't take being covered by the TE. Usually we like a smaller, speed type kid, but if he can't take it I will sub another Stud to play the 5 tech weak. Or we just switch the Stud with the Evil so the Evil plays the 9 tech strong and the Stud moves to the 5 tech weak. Seems like a lot but it really isn't.

Our PHILOSOPHY Coverage wise is to play Robber to all 2 back sets, C1 to single back. We are committed to 8 man front G type schemes as long as we can. Does it always happen??? No but thats our goal. Its REAL EASY if they go 10 and 11 personnel because we check OMAHA (O=One) and everyone always has their assigned receiver. C's=#1, R/BL=#2, Buc=#3, Mike plays the Hole. 2x2, 3x1, 3x2 are all easily matched up. We are very balanced, its easy to coach, and I spend less practice time lining up 8-9 formations and having 60 checks and responsibilities. I don't know about your HS kids but mine go both ways and we don't have many "brain surgeons". Keep it simple is our golden rule and if its too complicated, we trash it. If ANY of our coaches don't understand it, its trashed. If we can 't understand it, the kids sure as hell can't.

If we want a Cover 2 look we call "50 Over". Our "Over" is a bit different than CW Post. Our "Over" tells the Buc (Backer) to move over to the weak seam. He is the smaller ILB and usually a mirror of the Razor and Blade (olbs). We go 50 Over it tells the Buc to replace the Blade on the weak side LOS (regular Base G fronts Buc would be 30 weak, Mike 10 Strong). What happens is we get a rolled up cloud look to the strong side with the 3 d-backs, Blade Walks out on #1 weak and funnels. Rover replaces Buc at 20 strong. If we go 2 man C/BL =#1, R/Buc=#2. 3x1 and 2x2 we can stay in Cover 2 or check back to 50 cover 1 depending on what the hell the OC is trying to do.

We get a 50 cover 2 shell look with no line changes. 3 players shift. Cloud is a base coverage for us with our Robber scheme against single width so our secondary kids know it. But it can get hairy if we want to man up so I try not to get into the 2 man look.

I am not a HUGE fan of cover 2 because it changes some DB/backer assignments and has our backers and DB's doing some different things with numbering and coverages.

IF I feel like I can't get away with Cover 1 and really need that "Shell" look, I will rep the shit out of it.

Robber and Cover 1 are the dominant coverages we use and live by.