The Complete Guide to Defending the Spread Offense

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Every coach who has seen it has had nightmares. We lie in bed, staring at the ceiling, thinking about it. It may have been days, weeks, months, or years since it last happened.

The speed. The space. The missed tackles, blown assignments, chaos and confusion. The juggernaut your team just could not stop.That helpless feeling you had on the sidelines. It became the frustration you felt when you sat down to watch the film. Even today, when you look back on it… You are not sure if you will be ready when it comes back around.I’m not talking about a Spread Offense. I am talking about a team who gets athletes into space, athletes with blazing speed. Linemen who execute their blocks. A complete team, who can run and throw.

We aren’t just talking about a formation. We are talking about defending teams who have made spreading the field a philosophy, a lifestyle, a habit.Anyone can defend an average spread offense. Will your team be ready to defend a great spread offense? [Read more...]

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Using the Alert Check in Quarters Coverage

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We have spent a lot of time looking at the Quarters Coverage on this blog. I love this coverage for any 7-man front, like the 4-3 Defense or the 3-4 Defense.

The Alert Check is the coverage check we use in Quarters versus two receivers removed. We have to make some adjustments in order to handle the threat of two fast, vertical threats. This video details the check.

Learn more about this details of Quarters Coverage and other checks we use in this video.

Transcript of Using the Alert Check in Quarters Coverage

Hi! Welcome to Football-Defense.com. My name is Joe Daniel. Today we are going to take a look at the quarter’s coverage in the alert check.

The alert check in our quarter’s coverage is the check that really used in order to get our safety’s back off the ball. Alert means alert we have two fast guy’s out there, we have number one and number two receiver’s both from removes. So alert is something that we use from two receiver’s remove d in order to make sure we can handle these two fast guys.

Is going to give us three on two handily most two-pass guy’s out there, which is a great advantage for us. Alert is going to give us a soft cover two type of look if you are familiar with cover two football or we are going to be off not pressing the man or we are going to be funneling everything to this deep safety’s.

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Dominating Football Defense with the Zone Blitz eBook

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Dominating Football Defense with the Zone Blitz eBook was made available to Football-Defense.com subscribers last week, and is now being introduced on the blog. I’ve sold a lot of them, and so far, nothing but positive feedback on the book! Thanks guys!

It has been 8 months in the making, but Football-Defense.com proudly announces that Dominating Football Defense with the Zone Blitz eBook is available!I am really excited to offer this eBook to you. I have worked hard to create a short but comprehensive guide to using zone blitzes in your defensive package.Buy Dominating Football Defense with the Zone Blitz eBook now!

This eBook is intended for coaches running any defensive front. It includes:

  • Why and when to run zone blitzes
  • Defensive Line, Linebacker and Secondary techniques for needed for running a complete zone blitz package
  • The advantages of running the zone blitz from the 4-3, 3-4, 3-5-3, 4-2-5 and 46 Defenses.
  • The basic types of zone blitzes including base blitzes, X blitzes, middle pressures, single edge and double edge pressures.

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Why You Can’t Run the 3-4 Defense

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Take a look around for resources on the 3-4 Defense and tell me how it goes. The one question you guys send more often, one that I cannot answer, is “Do you know of any good resources on the 3-4?”

I do not. It seems no one else does, either. Stop by CoachHuey.com and visit the section on Books & Videos. For a site with 25,000 members, not one of them can seem to come up with a decent reference on the subject.I am ordering videos as we speak, and one of them has to be decent. You guys that really want to run a odd 7-man front, you will have your day. When that day is, who knows. For now, not many folks are talking.Championship Productions coaching videos has a few 3-4 videos. I have not heard good things about The Multiple 3-4 Defense for High School Football. Disappointing because of a very promising title. Dominating with the 3-4 Defense shows more hope. [Read more...]

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Defending the Power

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I want to take a look at the Power running play out of the I Formation against the multiple fronts we’ve been talking about – 3-4, 4-2-5 and 4-3 Defense. This all is sparked by my curiosity about how this style of team would handle a 3-4, so if there are any 3-4 guru’s out there could you please enlighten me!The power is extremely effective when it is run properly, and there’s no reason to waste time on stopping it when the play is run poorly. It seems to me that the best teams that run the Power are hitting the play tighter to A gap than they are hitting C Gap. These are true power running teams. They’ll get your Defensive End crashing down hard, occasionally hooking him or running a toss around him to keep him honest.We’re going to look to spill regardless of the front, with the Safety being responsible for boxing the play in our two-high defensive secondary (and he’s the same guy rolled down as the OLB on the 4-2-5 front). I didn’t bother with naming the players as they would be called in a multiple front defense because my only concern was looking at how each front would be blocked and what is most advantageous.Power vs. The 4-3 Defense [Read more...]

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