3-3-5 vs. Veer

Double tight veer?

We have about 16 different slant/blitzes we use from the 33. When we face veer teams we use 2 more.
Usually, we'll stunt and blitz only with the 6 up front. Against double tight we have our stingers up on the line (kind of looks like a 5-3). when a team likes to run veer, we'll give them our base looks for awhile to see how we match up. If they start moving the ball a little bit, we'll send our stingers straight to the mesh point, send our olb to the pitch, our dl tries to get penetration with slants, and our mike backer reads it.

It's just a different look to cause disruption with the qb's read.

combination of things have happened for us.

1. olb and end have caused enough trouble by getting good penetration past the o-tackle.
2. mike has filled pretty quickly to the dive when not blitzing

3. we also send the stinger to the dive

again, different looks, and hope to slow the reads for the QB


it seems to work fairly well for us, it might not for you.

veerbone,

how do you stop it?

and, tell me where you play your stingers as far as alignment. i'm intrigued by how you get them to the dive as your base vs a veer.

that may be where we differ on it.

we tend to play a lot of double tight teams, so our stingers are more linebacker types than db types. we call it a 33, but honestly, most of the time we look like a 5-3. that's just how we've matched up against the teams we play. however, we can easily get into another look if the offense dictates it.