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Post by coachpruitt on Oct 12, 2008 10:05:33 GMT -6
I know I have back to back posts but I reall need help this week. My boys are and I are 0-7 but the still show up to practice and play hard I need a win for my boys like Clasita Flockhart needs a sandwich.
Please help.
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Post by jhanawa on Oct 13, 2008 21:45:47 GMT -6
This isn't a smart A reply, but stunts and blitzes aren't what you need. You need to go back to the basics of attacking and getting off blockers, hitting, tackling and pursuit angles. Any defense will work fine if you:
A: line up in it correctly and have sound responsibilities
B: run and hit.
Thats it.
Lastly, IMO, don't blitz anybody against an oline with zero splits, kinda a waste....
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Post by raiderpirates on Oct 13, 2008 23:26:29 GMT -6
It would depend on your front and their spacing.
If they gap tight I'd just pinch the interior linemen in with the hopes that it spills everything back outside. Flatten the line for your bigger players who have a hand down, to the point of crossing their blocker's faces and aiming for whoever is next to him, their armpit or the v of their neck.
Save stunts as well. Straight on for anything under four yards to go, hit a gap, and stay in it until you get deep as the O line's heels. Run to the ball from there. Use the stunts on longer downs or first downs where you think they might try more east-west running.
If you can kill the initial dive call w/linemen you should have enough energy and speed to hustle to the mesh point and take the QB or wing backs every time if they practice hard as you assert.
You may end up being able to key their set back for the depth he lines up at as well. Look really close for that half step to yard of difference as a key. Especially note what they do if you are able to pinch down and it works, they may set the back deeper to give him a clearer read on the blockers.
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Post by coachpruitt on Oct 14, 2008 19:38:37 GMT -6
Thanks for the help. With the DT's aiming for the guy next to him, should I line them up in the B gap in order to get a head start?
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Post by los on Oct 14, 2008 21:16:15 GMT -6
JH is right.....there's no "magic silver bullet" to stop the dbl. wing juggernaut, lol....it's helpful to know what their better run plays are, which backs get most of the carry's, and have some understanding of the offense...then defend their best plays, using your everyday defense.....like JH, I'd hesitate to blitz, vs a "no split" set back o-line. Just can't see how it helps?
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Post by raiderpirates on Oct 15, 2008 0:21:48 GMT -6
Usually you have a one and a three tech? If that's where you start them keep them there.
Try working one of those to the other to see if you can get three gaps with two players.
That would be a player between the C and G and the other playing off the G shoulder to the T side. Some other topics here have some good keys for LB to read, it seems the easiest key to read is three's guard, or the blocker to one's outside shoulder. That should help accelerate where your LB plug and where they scrape over until they find a space to fill, usually called 'windows' that are read by seeing if a blocker is engaged in them or not.
Those G can pull and keying them should always allow you to get where they are headed.
Stunting linemen off that might also confuse some of their blocking changes on down schemes, etc. It could end up opening a lot more room for LB to see the ball and run through until the teams adjust the blocker aim points. It should certainly free them from some blocks over linemen who would be considered uncovered and likely to pull.
My preference for any odd front is the B gap because if they are in the gap you know it is accounted for. With a nose and two people in B gaps the trap should be gone. That should free LB to work past the mesh every time. The longer they have to wait for G to spring a block the more speed from the second level can play into the game. Asking a G to go far past the mesh point should give you more people at it as well.
So it's back to assignment stuff. What does the front do, which gaps do they have, and what block keys develop off of that for what the they like to do? Staying familiar is a way to speed them up in arriving where the ball is going.
Save stunts for longer yardage, hat to your gap and rep the heck out of your base items until it can set up a stunt or blitz. Blitzes to the outside(c gap or wider).
Use the tight gaps to your gain and compress or flatten the action, that should put players in position to try other stuff.
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