30 Stack & 4-2-5

Coach, I've run a wide 44...basically a 42. We did have a 33 stack package that we ran against a spread passing team, but it was highly simplistic, and was simply used as a blitz package since their offensive line was not great. It worked for us, but we ran our same coverages from it, and we did not, by any means, run that 33 to its fullest capabilities. Frankly, if you have an abundance of OLB types, run the 33 and install everything. If you have a defensive line that can control the LOS, go with the 42, in my opinion. But as Coach Ack says, don't run both systems. Run one or the other, and you can stem to odd/even looks from them.

CoachFord,
Did you find that people would recognize what you were doing when you shifted into that look and try to take advantage of it? We have tried to do things with different looks at times and sometimes it's tough to tell if the advantages outweigh the amount of time it takes to get it repped so the kids are good at it and also to do enough different things out of it so the other team doesn't say, OK they are in this front so we know this is coming etc. We are seldom athletic enough to just line up and beat up on someone so we have to try to be sneaky sometimes.