Pass protection schemes

For sprint out: Rules are like outside zone. Reach-bucket step to the sprint out side. Never get beat across the face. We sprinted out about 100 times this year and it worked for us. Single back leads and blocks first guy outside the DE (OLB/SS).


For 3 oand 5 step, our protection is the same with the exception of their feet. With three step, my OL is aggressive upfront. With 5 step, i want them kick sliding and gaining depth off the ball. Our center makes an odd or even call. If even (40), our OTs lock on DEs. G on DT. C/G combo NT to MLB. FB gets other inside LB, always working a-b-c gap. If center calls odd (30), our PST locks up on PS DE. Everyone else slides and protects gap away from the playside call. FB combos with PS OT. Ex below.

.....LR.......S.......M......W......RR

...............LE.......N.......RE

...............LT..LG.C.RG..RT

.........................FB

If a right call,

RT blocks RE
FB Blocks W to RR
RG and C respnsible for N and M.
LG and LT responsible for any combination of LE/S/LR stunt/blitz.

If the DL shade, all of the above works out. It is basically a slide protection but i dont want the FB blocking a DE.

I think we are protecting the same way vs. a 40 front, only using different words. Prior to snap, our center makes a rip/liz call in the direction of the 3 tech.

I never referred to this as a 4 man slide before, but it makes simple sense!

the only 50 we see is the 33 stack and a 34 (and that team actually runs more of the old 52 slant defense).

My above post describes what we do. we are in spread so we get the outside Rover/Bandits out of the picture most of the time. Playside Tackle lock on DE. all others slide opposite.


Vs. the 52(34) - we block just like above. Playside OT locks on DE. All others slide away. RB blocks A,B to C gap on the playside.

.................B.......B

.....B.....E........N.........E........B

............T...G...C....G...T


...........................RB

In our 30 and 50 protection we slide our protection away from the playside with the FB taking the playside edge rusher. Our backside OT has to pick up the wide 9tech most of the time so we ask him to kickstep but the other lineman slide to the away gap. It was a pretty sound prtoection for us. We had 2 problems when the protecttion did break down. 1) sometimes that wide 9 tech we slide our protection to was just faster than our OT. 2) our FB was over powered sometimes. Neither of these issues were consistent.