Stopping Power Football with 33

Pinch the front and bring the Flank(9 tech) underneath into c gap, this will allow your Stack Backer and FS to play the bounce. If the OT does not honor the 4 tech that is slanting across his face, the 4 tech will penetrate and disrupt the play. If he does not honor this, the Flank will become the disruptive variable...Pick your Poison

This is really the crux of this defense. If a good iso team is patient, they can cause fits. You have to shift/blitz/stunt or you are hung out to dry. My best advice is similar to Ack, reduce into a more traditional 5 front-type look. If your DE's are simply blowing by the OT, you are going to have issues no matter what you do, though. Best thing is to work keys so that backers know immediately where they are going and they can come downhill hard and fast!

EVERY single team we play that runs this Defense can not stop ISO to the TE.

You said you would pinch the 4/5 tech but it makes it even easier for our tackle to wash him down and the TE to move up levels to the backer. your small OLB playing off the line is candy to our FBs.

I think this 33 is good against the spread type stuff but we just go DT I and run off tackle to the cows some home.

I am not boasting but.... what do you all do??

I would suspect you plug in a Big DE if you have it or start taking chances with slanting.

Maybe I am missing something but Off-tackle is the weakness and its a huge one.

My 2 best guys are those outside backers! And I would be in man to man. So Im blitzing the stack backer into the C-Gap and the OLB off the edge on a contain blitz to the deepest Back. Its actually Zero coverage (BLACK) with the FS replacing the blitzing OLB in coverage. So the FS has that #2 reciever (the Tightend) man to man. When my Free Safety reads that downblock by the tightend... Here he comes too. D line slanting weak. Thats Open-Boom-Black!! Send it in, Baby!

I agree....You must make a personnel change to a Heavier kid(on the Flank)...

Good luck. We would be in man to man. Zero coverage (Black) on this play actually. My weakside OLB is coming off the other edge. My OLBs have the #2 recievers in man to man cvg. Our coverage rules for the OLBs is that if the #2 is in the backfield.. thats an automatic contain blitz. Good luck on that fly pattern and dont get that QB killed with my 6 man rush! If Im gonna die... Im going out with my boots on.

Jeff,

I agree wholeheartedly with your take. I used to love the 33 until I actually had to run it. I still love it against the spread--I don't think there's anything better. However, I hate it against power football. A patient attack from a disciplined team will simply bludgen a 33 right down the field--unless they start guessing--and that's either a 2 yd loss or 60 yd gain! I like those odds!

With my OLB coming hard off the edge untouched... The fullback is getting collisioned right now!! With the stack backer the mike and the FS helping. U can talk about your X fly pattern all day. The original post was about off tackle. And it just got blown up! Better luck next time.

Wow. I guess you just took me to school.

We have really done well with this look against power type teams.

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B and $ are contain players unless we are running somthing, S has #2 to strength and W has #2 weak. W is playing cutback and N and M have A gaps. We would try to get away with cover 1 if they are a throwing threat, otherwise we'd run cover 0. Really, if you can't stop it with this you are probably in trouble no matter what defense you run. No scheme can protect you if your DT is getting washed 3-4 yds back.

West Lyn Zoo,

You are way to sensitive and naive with your post:





Do you think I will run this once and say "gee whiz this guy is a guru better stop running ISO". Power ISO takes your OLB or FS, depending how we block it, out of commission. But... ISO is the play and I will put my 200lb FB anyday against a OLB especially when I run it at him 20 times a game. Also... if your FS is screwing down that much its only a matter of time before the TE runs right by him in play action.

Another "telling" quote from West Lyn Zoo and it was your first post:



The second I hear "blitzing" is the answer to stop the running game I know I got you beat. I asked my same question to a guy in a 30 stack clinic. When I got "We blitz" I almost fell off the chair. He called it "having balls". I called it a major opportunity and would be fired by my HFC if my answer to him on stopping ISO and Power was "we got to have balls.... we blitz".

If you have to sell out your defense like that to stop a base run play, I got you.

If you are a power football team, you know what I am talking about.

Anyway no one took you to school. You are just way to sensitive. Everyone is offering their observations, experiences, and what works for them. Its why I started the thread.

Every defense has its weaknesses. IMHO you have to find a way to strengthen the weaknesses WITHOUT blitzing or you will be in for a long day against a methodic ISO team.

You won't be sucessfull in the course of a game and especially when tape gets out showing all the blitzing you do to stop it. Most power football teams are just going to be patient, chew up clock, suck everyone closer and closer to the LOS then play action.

I just wanted to listen to 335, 353, 30 stack, coaches speak on stopping ISO off tackle because the 335, 353 teams we play against don't have a big kid in a 9 tech jamming my TE and wrong arming the FB with the monster SS right behind him like teams that ran 52 monster. Now the 215lb DE is a 180lb OLB, he is a couple yards back off the ball and no one is behind him. 52 monster always did a gob against Power and ISO to the TE side. We would go DT then run ISO and Power away from the Monster so we would get a corner to deal with rather than the monster. Greenough's adjustment give a quasi 52 monster look which hwoud make it tough to make the Double teams we are looking for PLUS it allows the DE to blow up the FB and still have 3 guys back to read and play play action FB/TE/X.

33, 30 stack, etc... sound great against spread teams. I even run a 3 man front 34 defense against the spread teams but to this day the only adjustment I saw was Greenough's adjustment. Thanks, it rang a bell!!! with the Monster's we used to tangle with.

Lighten up Zoo... we're supposed to be helping one another!!!