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Adjusting the defensive front. (football technique)
DEFENSIVE COACHING COULD BE GREATLY simplified by aligning the players in the same positions and having them play the same techniques for the entire ballgame.
Unfortunately, this would also simplify the blockers' jobs. They would always know where to find their targets. We attempt to achieve our defensive objectives through a numbering system that, while simple, enables us to variegate our alignments from every defense we run.
Though we have always run it from an even front defense, the system lends itself to any kind of defensive scheme.
We set up defensive front and secondary according to the strength of the offensive formation. The side of the formation with the most receivers is considers the strong side (Diag. 1). If we find an equal number of receivers on both sides of center, we will consider the wide side of the field as strong. Against a Power-1, we treat the PB side as strong. Our MB and FS are charged with calling out the strength of formation as the offense approaches the LOS.
Up front, out DTs play over the OGs, and the DEs play over the OTs. We use numbers 0-4 to indicate the alignment techniques to use against any offensive player at or near the LOS (Diag. 2).
Notice that our alignment numbers remain the same vs any offensive player (guards, tackles, tight ends, and WBs):
0 - inside gap, align in the inside gap of your man.
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