Stopping the Double Wing

I have read it, just looking for multiple looks. Thanks

Coach Ank is exactly right. As soon as any of my DLinemen see 0"-6" splits, they are on all fours and crabbing (bear crawling) through. This negates any wedge play that they like to run.

I have stud DT's this year, would crabbing them eliminate the ablity to pursue. I have heard from other DW coaches that when teams crab all the time the will just move on to the second level. When you do crab a guy do they crab throught the man or through a gap?

Coach Ank,
What front would you recommend, 50 or 40?

50 or 40?

Depends on if you have a stud Nose or not.

Besides the 50 front or 6-2 front have you faced a 90 front? By 90 I am talking about covering the Guards and Center with your down guys DEs on the TEs and the MLB stacked over the center and the OLBers over the wings at 2-3 yards from the LOS.

It is a variation of the 46 Bear that we already run. I am running cover 3 having the corners cross read the wings. I like the ablity to use many different fronts and stem to them to confuse the OL and wings. High school kids will make mistakes when things change from the normal. I think too many teams sit in one front vs the DW and it makes it easier for the DW team to adapt throughtout the game.

Coaches thank for all of the responces, esp Tiger One. Tonight I will see if my plan will work and if my boys can make the plays. The team we play tonight has not scored less than 20 pts in 2 years.

We held them to 9 pts and have moved on to the CIF Division I Semifinals. We beat them 42-9 and gave up a 50 yard reverse late in the game during garbage time. The stats at this point have us holding them to 80 yards rushing. The ran a bunch of single wing as well they had to leave the DW which they didn't get any yards. They had a lot of blown blocking assignments and my kids just hung in and played tough. It was a great victory against a good team. Once again thanks for the help.

Congrats coach. That shows you what I know. DId you use the 90 look you mentioned? What other things were successful for you? Did you bear crawl your linemen? What did you do with your secondary? Do you feel like your players are physically superior, or at least superior as football players? We face a perennial power DW team again next season. It was by far the toughest thing for us to defend this season, as we had never faced a true DW team. Again, congrats on your win.

I used a 5-3 stack, 6-2, and the 4-6. I crabbed the DL some earlly but just kept mixing it up. They fell behind and went to the single wing and tried throwing. We just were much more physical than they were use to. We would spill the guards by hitting them in the hip with our shoulder pads and they stacked up every time. We tackled the back from SW when they tried the shovel pass every time and shut down their best long yardage play. It was a great game and great vitory for our kids. We play Long Beach Poly this week, I think many of you have heard of them before.

Final stats 9 pts given up, 129 yards rushing (50 from a reverse late in the game) 2 plays before the reverse my FS was clipped and landed hard on his shoulder. Next play FS not involved. Reverse the FS started to sprint and his colar bone,which he broke 2 plays before, slipped and he was clutching is. We would have stopped the reverse for 20 yard gain but my FS was unable to make a tackle (he was in position), he was clutching his colar bone while running. We gave up 100 yards passing, 57 of it on the first play of the game out of DW formation. After that they only hit a screen for 15 and that was all she wrote.

LB Poly, aka NFL high school (because the more NFL players have come from Poly than any other HS in the nation) is very basic in their approach. They have great talent and great skill kids so their blocking schemes are very basic and they want to throw the ball long and let their kids beat your kids. I am a multiple front blitz every play running cover 0 and 1 guy now. I was a 4-3 zone blitz guy up until the 10th week of the season. We were hammered by our league rival and just picked apart, and they were the second team in league to scheme us to take our zone blitzes away. I put in my old 4-6 d and 40 blitz package and we came out and beat a very good team to take 3rd in our league. We opened up our playoffs against Mater Dei, and shocked everyone and beat them, I added the 3rd front the 50 for them and put in a few more blitzes out of it. Last week we shocked more people when we stommped on Colton a 10-1 team who had not scored less than 20 in two years. We will stay with what we have been doing, but I will add a few wrinkles this week to the package.

As for the Poly D they are a 4-4 / 4-3 team. Same as the O very fast and very physical. We played them in 2000 in the semi's as well when they had the fab 5 as Juniors. Marced Lewis (UCLA), Winston Justice (USC supended this season), Hersial Dennis (USC), Darnell Bing (USC), Manuel Wright (USC), as well as Ray Tago (CAL), and about 4 other Division I guys.

Poly has been in the finals 7 of the last 8 years in our CIF Div I which is the top division in southern california with over 600 schools.