Untitled - Fast and Furious Football

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dreamed up last night. This schem€ has been
tested, and very great coache6 have had an opportunity
to beat this defense and came up light.
4.3 Versus Offensive Sets
\\hen we face the hallback set, we don't like to
run the three game. The reason is that the halfback
can get to the outside too easily and too
quickly, before the stunt tackle.
If w€ run the Tom game and the offense runs
away from the stunt, we're still in good shape.
The centels rules have him rcaching on that type
ofplaj'. The turther he reaches, the morc penetration
we will get ftom the back side (see Figure
10).It doe€n't make any differ€nce ifthe offenBe
runs away from the stunt. Therc isn't a coach in
this room who will coach his offensive center to
disregard the tackle in the playside gap and block
back. Coaches will not change th€ir blocking
scheme to block a stunt.
FIGUBE IO
loosens up and the weakside lin€backer moves to
a stack behind the tackle.
The adjustment to the split formation involves
some automatic stunts. We don't need to adjust
toward the tight end because we are already
Btrong that wa)'. The weakEide doesn't have a
stiong running attack, and the only play we look
for to that Bide is the sprint drsw. On the weak
side, we use a "youf call. The your call involveg
the weakside tackle and weakside end. It is the
reverse ol the me call. The tackl€ loops into an
offensive tackle, and the end crosses behind and
to the inside (see Figure 12).
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From this defense we have an open Tom, open
four game, storm, Iam, me, and any combination
of these stunts. The "open, ram, Tom" iB a combination
stunt shown in Figur€ 13.
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If we face the halfback in the strong set, we
adjust differently (see Figure 11). The shong
tackle lines up in the gap and comes upfreld. The
middle linebacker moves into the stack behind
the shong end. The weakside tackle comes to
head-on the offensive suard. The weakside end
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We can run the Tom game on formation. The
fa€t that the running back is so deep gives us that
flexibility When the center tries to reach, this
opens the center of the line lor the slant stunts
and eliminates the bubble in the middl€ which
running backs look for in the cutback. Earl
Campbell was a cutback runner. We played him
ten tim€s while I was with Pittsburyh, and he
avemged 42 yads ru6hing. Our scheme could
ppncl ral,e and keep him fiom culling bacl.
If a team plays two tight ends, we nake our
adjustment with our secondary people. We either
play the rcgular 4-3 and move the weak safety