How to Bring Blitzes with Peace of Mind: Fire Zone Coverage

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As this video blogging thing slowly comes together, we hit some big bumps. The sound quality is atrocious on this clip and I apologize for that. Hopefully you can look past it, and in the future when I have some better equipment we’ll re-do this thing!

In this video we are taking a look at Fire Zone Coverages to use behind your 5 man pressure blitzes. You can either use Cover 1 or, if you are not comfortable playing Man coverage all the time, use these Fire Zone coverages to still bring the heat!

Transcript of this Video shown below:

Hi this Joe Daniel with football-defense.com. Today we’re taking a look at fire zone coverage’s, coverage’s that you can run behind your zone blitzes. The concept of the fire zones or zone blitz packages is that you’re going to bring 5 guys on the rush. What that means is that you can’t run a traditional cover 2 or cover 3 where you would have 7 players that are opening the coverage up for run and pass.

In order to run these blitzes with five men coming you need to adjust your coverages. When looking to coverage zone you just need to fill the opening behind to control of different blitzes.

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Blitzing the Empty Formation

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When you face an Empty formation, you have to make a decision – blitz the hell out of it, or sit back and wait on them.

There is no single right answer, but there is a right answer for you and your team. For me, it is usually to bring six rushers and lock on the rest in man coverage.

Why the Offense Uses EmptyA priority for your staff when you see Empty formations on film is to decide why they are using it, and who they use in it.Look at the Quarterback. If he is an athletic runner, they may be spreading everyone out to get him more room to run in.

Take a look at who is lined up at the receiver positions. Are there any non-factors, guys who you really have no concern about catching the ball? That may open you up to using a little more zone.

Do they motion to Empty? Do they motion in Empty, such as bringing a player across to take the hand-off on a Jet Sweep?Is this a significant part of their offense, or not? [Read more...]

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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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Overloading the Weak Side with the Zone Blitz

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One of the best features of zone blitzes is how you can create so many different looks for the defense with so few changes. The more I have worked on putting the Zone Blitz manual together than will be released in the next week, the more I find we can do.

In fact, most of the work going on now is shaving it down now from a bulky 80+ pages without including the diagrams, down to a simplified manual of 30 pages or so.So I’m taking a break from that chore to present a really simple way to give the offense fits without blowing your defensive player’s minds. These are three simple variations of the same weak side overload zone blitz, in the 4-3 Defense.Tight Over WAM 3

This is the base Zone Blitz, known as America’s Fire Zone. It is an overload stunt on the weak side. I love the look of this blitz not only in pressuring the passer from the Field, but in attacking the Zone Read play from the side the back is on, making the Quarterback reads more difficult.Weak side Overload blitz [Read more...]

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Learning to Use the Zone Blitz

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This is an excerpt from my upcoming new eBook on Zone Blitzing. The book will be available later this month. It will be an inexpensive, yet comprehensive look at the zone blitz and how you can use the zone blitz in your defensive scheme.

This is a look at what the zone blitz is, and why you will want to use the zone blitz in your game plan. It is also a look at the formatting of the eBook, since I literally cut-and-pasted it! (cut me some slack, the National Championship was on!)What is the Zone Blitz? You should have a little bit of an idea about why we want to use the Zone Blitz in our defensive scheme now. But we have not gotten in to exactly what the Zone Blitz is.

Zone Blitzes are a 5 man rush package that features a zone coverage behind them. The starting point for a zone blitz package is a blitz with four defensive linemen and a linebacker (if you are an even front) or three defensive linemen and two linebackers (for odd fronts). Most Zone Blitz packages use a 3 under, 3 deep zone coverage behind them. This creates safety because you always have players behind the receivers to make a tackle and line up again if the offense does have success. [Read more...]

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