Post by Dublin Ireland on May 11, 2004 7:40:30 GMT
How do you run Option plays against 9 defenders in the box?
We played a team who lined up with a strange-looking 5-4 type of defense. We were running Inside Veer to the strongside, from splitbacks. On the strongside they had a player in the B and C-Gaps and after a few plays they put in a NT heads up with the Centre. There was an OLB lined up a good bit wider than the TE. Their ILBs shot various gaps and moved about a good bit, but they were generally somewhere in the vicinity of our Guards.
We’re new to the system, and we gave up running Option plays after a few failed attempts. The obvious choice was to throw deep over the middle, as they had no safeties and man coverage on our WRs. Daring us to go deep, really.
But is it possible to successfully run Inside or Outside Veer against this defence? Or would we need to have Midlines and Counters and all that in our arsenal?
We played a team who lined up with a strange-looking 5-4 type of defense. We were running Inside Veer to the strongside, from splitbacks. On the strongside they had a player in the B and C-Gaps and after a few plays they put in a NT heads up with the Centre. There was an OLB lined up a good bit wider than the TE. Their ILBs shot various gaps and moved about a good bit, but they were generally somewhere in the vicinity of our Guards.
We’re new to the system, and we gave up running Option plays after a few failed attempts. The obvious choice was to throw deep over the middle, as they had no safeties and man coverage on our WRs. Daring us to go deep, really.
But is it possible to successfully run Inside or Outside Veer against this defence? Or would we need to have Midlines and Counters and all that in our arsenal?