Stand Up D-Line

Hi coach Toth,
I have used this concecpt a few times last year. Had mixed results when i used this in passing situation. I placed the whole box at the line. It evolved into a firezone concept, and gave me one more look. I played straight man behind it, but probably will evolve to a 3 deep, 3 under look this year. If you need any info let me know.
Woz

I have seen some teams have success with this, and situationally I can see where it can be helpful, especially if you are playing against an inexperienced or undisciplined O-line and it is an obvious passing down. I think it is quite a gamble on a running down, especially if you have a team that can go on different cadences and straight zone blocks, it is easy to get caught backing up or crossing. Also, against an option team I think it could cause you problems because it is easy to get caught out of position if you are prowling and as we all know, one mistake is all it takes for a play to go big against an option team. we tried it some and our kids got so caught up in looking like they were about to do something special that they forgot to do anything besides look cool pre-snap. I think if you had time to rep it like anything else it could be good for you if you have the personnell, but I don't want my all-star nose tackle standing up and moving around. I'd rather be more vanilla on my pre-snap and send people to different places when the ball gets snapped. Like I said, I've seen it work for others, just not us.