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"There's No Tickling in Football!": Defensive Strategies Discovered While Watching a Three-Year-Old
Do the rules of college football permit tickling while tackling? This question occurred to me this morning, while I was watching my three-year-old daughter, Elizabeth. She and I were playing a game in which she would run to the door and open it, I would respond with comic exaggerated consternation...
Inside the Steele Curtain: Robber
This will be the most common coverage Clemson plays this year, its versatile because you can blitz easily and not change assignments of everyone, particularly depending on what a LB's key is (which RB he watches, for example) he can blitz any formation from any front call. In other terminologies...
Inside the Steele Curtain: Cover 3 Zone Blitzes
First thing to get straight in your head is that a zone blitz is not what is called anytime you see a Defensive linemen drop into coverage. In reality, a DE may have a seam/flat responsibility on pass plays even when a blitz is not called. Also, just because you see the down 4 linemen rush on a...
GT: Defending the Run & Shoot
The R&S is quite difficult to defend. Each team that uses it has different characteristics and philosophies. One constant, however, is that the QB is the key. If he can scramble and attack the containment, you have an added element of pressure to the defense. If the option and counter have been...
Inside the Steele Curtain: 4-3 Over/Underfronts
It occured to me that you can't really explain any blitz packages without giving an explanation of the different defensive fronts you see in a 4-3. When you think of a 4-3 defense, most of you will just think of 4 linemen playing in a 3pt stance, with 3 LBs just sitting behind them; there is more...
More on the 4-3: Stunting
Defenses today have to be multiple; there is no true 4-3 or 3-4 set anymore that is played on every down. Last year's Alabama team played a 3-4 base, but essentially only played a 3-4 40% of the time. Saban at LSU ran primarily a 4-3, but he does so many things that you can never pigeonhole his...
Inside the Steele Curtain: Defending the spreadwith the Nickel defense
The first topic to address is the misconception that the spread offense is a system on its own, it isnt. The spread is a set of formations with 3 or more wide receivers, thats all. Steele comments in his press conference that he expects multiple formations from Tony Franklin's offense: wishbone,...
Defensive breakdowns against GT
There werent a terribly high number of critical defensive breakdowns in this game, it was more a coaching mistake that cost us. The defense only gave up 16 points against a good rushing offense that piled up 300 yards on the ground and 420 overall. The problem is that a few of the plays were run...
BC: Spaziani's 3-5-3 Defense
Frank Spaziani has been the defensive coordinator at BC for about a decade now, and was in the CFL immediately before that, and prior experience was under George Welsh at UVA. In 2008, the Eagles ranked in the top 10 in the nation in seven defensive categories, including interceptions (first, 26);...
Defensive breakdowns against TCU: inverted veer option
Chris at Smartfootball got hold of the clip we uploaded for the TCU game review, and looked at the variation of the zone read that TCU ran against us last weekend here. Thankfully it saves me a couple hours of writing. ...Against TCU, however, in an otherwise solid defensive effort the Tigers...
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