Fan Block on the 7 tech.

Coaches, any time we find a way to conceptualize things it seems to help us teach it.

We use a concept called a Sight key and a Pressure key. This applies to each of our D Linemen and all of the various techniques. Sometime the pressure key is a lineman, at other times it is a back (for a DE for example). We even use this concept when slanting.

Our linemen are taught to read their Sight key and feel the Pressure key. They react to one or both depending on what happens.

Like Coach Campbell, our 7 techniques watch the Offensive Tackle (their sight key). They react to the pressure of the TE (pressure key).

We call this type of read a zip read and also it for our 4 techniques (sometimes called 4i or 4 eye - inside shade on OT reading the OG).

This works pretty well against Wing T teams (like our Offense which we face for 4 weeks during Spring ball)