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. [Read more...]

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Filed Under: 3-4 Defense, 3-5 Defense, 4-2-5 Defense, 4-3 Defense, Defending the Spread

Base Alignment of 4-2-5 Defense

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The 4-2-5 Defense is extremely popular for a good reason. It is simple to install, easy to adapt to everything from the Wing-T and Double Wing to the Spread Offense, and offers a lot of room for different stunts, blitzes and coverages.

In Coaching Football’s 4-2-5 Defense eBook I touch on a lot of the variation you could use, but focus on the base 4-2-5 Defensive front, with coverages that are a natural fit for the 8-Man Front. In this video I have presented the base front – if you want to use the defense, you can learn more on the 4-2-5 on Football-Defense.com and also download my eBook, Coaching Football’s 4-2-5 Defense!

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Football-Defense on the Red Zone Radio Youth Football Show

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This week I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Coach Hayes on the Red Zone Show. You can check out a ton of great interviews that have been done there at http://www.coachbigb.com, but you can check out our talk on the 4-2-5 Defense in the player below:

Listen to internet radio with Coach Big B on Blog Talk Radio

I had a great time doing this show, but I was amazed at the amount of awesome interviews on the site. Football listening pleasure for a long time to come!

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How to Wrong Arm a Trap Block

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I have had a few questions since Coaching Football’s 4-2-5 Defense eBook came out about the proper way to wrong arm a trap block. I have talked about this before, but wanted to add a little video to illustrate the idea.

The wrong arm is the most effective way to defend against trap blocks. The defensive linemen are bending down the line of scrimmage when they are unblocked, rather than getting up field and getting kicked out by an on-coming trap blocker.

The wrong arm refers to taking the defender’s outside arm and ripping through the upfield shoulder of the trap blocker or kick-out (if it is a fullback).

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Coaching Football’s 4-2-5 Defense eBook

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Anyone who falls in to any of these three categories, pay attention:

  1. You are planning on changing to the 4-2-5 Defense this season or at some point in the future.
  2. You are running the 4-2-5 Defense and always looking for ways to improve or simplify your defense.
  3. You just have an unhealthy desire to devour and learn everything you can.

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