base defense vs double wing double tight

hope you haven't played too many games against the DW yet. The key to trying to stop this offense is to understand how it works. The backers and secondary can not watch the backs or they will become totally lost because the play can often look like it's going to one of two or three backs. Also, how do you line up to a strong side with the balanced formation? I think you line up balanced also and play it that way because the counter play potential is devastating.

When the offense is in it's base look, i.e., two tight wingbacks, one back (FB) behind the QB, line up with the guards in a 3 tech, ends in 6 tech. Inside backers directly behind the guards, outside backers on outside shoulder of wing back. This offense works by starting with a double team of one of your D line. This man will stay blocked unless he is a superior athlete, however, he is the key to stopping the play. Simply put, this player can't get blown back off the LOS. If he has to crawl with his face in the dirt, fine, just muck up the hole. I think I have an article about stopping this offense with read keys for the backers and secondary, as well as line play. If your still interested, I'll try to find it and forward it to you.

We just faced off against an in-town rival that I have to say ran the DW to perfection!
Defensively, had we not shut them down, we would have lost easily.....

Going into the game, we run a 4-2-5 (in a 'G' scheme looking like a Wide Tackle 6) and played our DL in;
R - 6i hard charging to C
T - 3 - 2 hard charging to A
N - 2i hard charging to A
E- 6i hard charging to C

This was supposed to allow our to inside guys (Mike & Sam to fill B uncontested)....

Unfortunately, during the game our end was flying to outside of the WING(!) which my guy in the box didn't relay to me (they were murdering us on the FB dive) so we adjusted on the fly....and

R - 6i hard charging to B (he was the better athlete)
T - 2 hard charging to A
N - 2i hard charging to A (small kid, but tore up A gap, usually taking C and G with him..caused 2 fumbles)
E - 5 hard charging to B

this allowed our ILB to remain covered, and scrape hard outside.

then stacked our backers over the linemen....daring them to beat us outside We played C3 the whole time, cheating our FS to 10yds). They didn't get a first down after that!