In this video, we will detail how to run the most popular zone blitz there is, America’s Fire Zone.

America’s Fire Zone is a weak side overload blitz that you will see run on any given Saturday or Sunday afternoon quite frequently. This is a great way to put pressure on the Quarterback, or to attack a Zone Read team.

We use the 3 Under, 3 Deep Fire Zone coverage behind the blitz. To learn more about utilizing the Zone Blitz, be sure to get Dominating Football Defense with the Zone Blitz eBook, available for instant download.

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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!

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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. [Read more...]