how would you line up vs this formation??

How is he setting himself up? There's NOBODY in the backfield. I like the idea of playing 4's though.....but I think you'd be ok with 5's too. Just my opinion. Thanks

I'm no offensive coord....but I've seen enough film of Terry Allen running the QB speed option with #2 out there ....eyouch! Numbers are to the offense's advantage

really out of this formation what would be the best and most sound way to defend this? basically out of this formation lots of quick passing so there really isn't much time to get to the QB with a 3 step game the only other thing that I could really come up with was to basically give it a man under 2 deep look pressing the WR's to disrupt the timing but even with that playing a man under look then if they would decide to run I still would be out gunned. I thought about a 4 man front ..........hmmm........ took away a skill guy but then again could use him as a rush End and drop into cov. so take a look and tell me what you all think would be best for me to do against this set.

.....................................................Fs........................SS

................C..............LB......................LB...........LB.......................LB...................C
..................................................E................N................E
..............................................H......o......o....C...o....o.......Y
...................WR............................................QB................................WR............WR

or
.............................................................Fs.......................SS
.................C..............................................................................................................C
........................................................LB........................LB..........................LB
..........................................LB.........E.................N...................E
..............................................H......o.......o......C......o......o.......Y
....................Wr..............................................QB.......................................WR............WR

I like your 40 front a little better against the run. Have you thought about using a nickel back in place of the LB aligned on the slot receiver and playing man under two deep? Also, depending on the coverage and run stopping abilities of your Free and Strong Safeties, you may want to have the FS (if a better cover guy) on the side of the two receivers while putting your SS (assuming he's the better run defender) to the one reciever side and maybe even aligning him at 8-9 yards deep with the FS at 10-12.

If the guy aligned as the single receiver is a stud, you could also run some games with the SS and WC to switch coverage responsibilities (e.g., WC drops to deep half while SS covers #1 man to man at the snap, bracket coverage. A possible problem with this scheme is that the Y is covered by the inside LB, and he's outflanked by alignment for any arrow or quick out to the flat, so you would want to think about mixing in the Cover two zone under scheme with the man scheme.

Finally, you would also be able to use some cover 3 by rolling the coverage to the two receiver side with the SC having flat responsibility (I call it Cover 3 Cloud), or the SS can take it with the SC having deep third (Cover 3 Sky) which can take away the smash combos OCs like to run at Cover 2.