Slanting to Motion

Put simply, slanting to motion means you are (usually) aligning your defensive line in a head-up technique and they are taught to see where the motion is moving to and attack the gap to that side. If a team tends to toss or sweep toward the motion, for example, it would be an advantage for your linemen to attack the gap toward the toss. This is becoming more common with the growth of the jet sweep in offensive football. As coach said above though, if a good offensive coordinator can pick up on your tendency to do that, he can and will use it against you.

it really depends on the tendencies of the offense as far as calling it or just doing it. Usually if we slant we are basically swapping responsibilities between the DL and the LB. For example our sam normally is a C gap player, if we slant toward his side, he will now be responsible for the B gap and the slanting DL will have C gap. We also like to send heat from time to time behind the slant, so if we slant weak we might send our sam backer too. My understanding is that is a pretty common blitz.