how to adjust to this formation ??

I think that Brophy is pretty much right on if you want to sit back and play zone. I think you also should go into the game with a way to attack that thing when you want to. Maybe play man and sent two. Out of a 4-4 look you could man up the corners, put the FS on 2 strong, put both inverts on tight ends and send both mike and will. We like to align both tackles in 2's and slant them inside, put our ends in 7's and make the tackles block them, and sent those two backers thru b-gaps. makes the G-C-G block 4.

I just believe that with all of these spread guys you need to very up what you do, make them use there hot checks, make them check and check out, if you think you can play man, show zone and play man, or the opposite.

I think I would attack this fomation by going with 2's with my tackles and 6's on the ends. You can play your backers on the outside shoulders of the guards and bring the other outside backer out on the slot of the 3 WR side. You can play cover 3 to the strong side and 0 or 2 to the 2 WR side. Depending on how the opponents passing attack is, i think you could keep your base personel in the game against this set.

thanks for all the replies,
what do you guys think of this. after watching the Pat's vs Colts I thought about this doing something similar to what the pat's did.

........C..................SS.....................................FS................................C
..................WOLB.......WILB....................SOLB.............NB
.................................E...........MLB............E
..........................H......O...O.....C.....O.....O.....Y
........X......................................QB................................W............Z


Basically:
Corners = locked up on #1
SS = on #2
Sam = #3
Nickel = #2
and backers play normal zone's or blitz. it's a cover 1 man / Free
and a similar look to that is a cover 4 man under look is a basic cover 4 only having the NB playing man on the # 2 and everyone else in a zone. so what do you guy's think of that ?

Sorry, my drawing changed when posting it. Draw it up by the trips rule in cov. 3