Working the D Line

Coach, this depends on your scheme and the things the team you are playing likes to do.

If you are playing 1 and 3 techniques, we like to attack upfield through the offensive man and maintain gap control. A pull or step away from the center by the guard could be influence trap or "gut" so we teach our DT's and Nose to look inside first. A pull across the center tends to be a pretty good read but we work flat down the line and squeeze holes as opposed to chasing guards.

We will mix a 0 shade and a 4 tech into the scheme from time to time.

Slanting the front or just the 2 inside linemen tends to cause problems if you dont guess wrong too many times.

Coach,
We have really studied the Wing T and found some great keys to beat it. I have a video out on d-line play that goes into this subject, it is being sold on this site Golla d-line. We have found two ways to play our d-lineman. Number one if we are reading we play 4 techniques meaning shade inside the offensive tackles. This forces them to block down so we use that to our advantage. We do not cover the guards because the tackle and center practice blocking down for pullers all day long. So what we do to take advantage of all of the pulling is this.... We slant to thier tendencies but read slant. Meaning we back our kides off the ball 2.5 feet which creates problem for their down block. We then slant our tackles and nose reading the guards. IF our tendency makes us slant right for example and the left guard pulls to the center our tackle is slanting to that guard and clear himself from cut of tackle the tackle will tackle the trap man. We know wing-t rules on trap sweep is the fb will block backside a gap and center has playside a gap so the d=tackle stuffs the trap. the nose guard slants to the guard to his right if that guard pulls away from center he knows its sweep or power so he get up field 2 yard 1 yard outside the f.b previous spot. He will tackle the sweep evertime if he beats center which he will. The kids know waggle pass becuase gaurds pull away from motion. That brings the ends because they are taught the same they get a down block away from motion gaurd comes at him he knows waggle if motion to him and gaurd comes at him he know trap sweep power etc... This has really worked for us and the kids really love it becaue they are able to fly around. This is all on the video with drill and techniques. Love to talk wing-t stuff.
GOLLA