2LD Defense - Gregory Double Wing

The threats you face from this offense are basic, but substantial. First, they willtry to ride you out of the off-tackle hole with double teams on both your StrongTackle (by the tight end and outside offensive tackle) and Strong End (by thefullback and blocking back), with one or both guards pulling and leading throughthe hole. If they can establish consistent gains with this play, you're in for a longday. As soon as he sees the double double-team develop in front of him, andthe wing and TE moving inside to block, Len must step up to take on the pullingguard and jam the hole shut. Mike and Will must scrape with the flow -- thewingback will try to block Mike inside, while a guard will come through the holelooking for Will. Len is in the best position to stop the play or at least force itoutside, where Sam and/or your Deep Safety can make an easy play.Next, they will try to hook you inside and Sweep or throw the Running Pass. TheSweep per se is no big threat if you have tough kids playing Strong End andRover, and good flow from Mike and Will. The Running Pass is another story --one of the best plays in all of football, and worthy of considerable attention inpractice. Len is in position to help, but you should also consider calling Cover togive the 2L defenders an extra second to diagnose the play before they have todrop to cover their zone -- unlike Max, which would make their pass coverageduties primary and immediate. With your playside End crashing, and Sam andMike scraping to flow, you should have both the run and pass componentscovered. DS and Ron, meanwhile, cover the deep zones in case a pass develops.The inside game is the next threat -- the Wedge can be a surprisingly consistentyardage-gainer if you don’t play it properly, while the Trap is a slower-hittingversion of its T-formation counterpart, but can be every bit as effective. Whencombined with a full spin by the fullback, the Trap can be a very difficult play todefend against unless you drill the proper reactions into your team.The Wedge requires two unusual responses from your front seven. The Endscrash as usual, making sure no daylight develops outside late in the play. Theirjob is strictly to pin the Fullback inside where the middle of your defense candeal with him. For the Nose and Tackles, the only answer to the Wedge is to eatdirt -- all three need to submarine underneath their counterparts and startgrabbing whatever ankles they can find -- some of them are bound to belong tothe fullback. (We've never been penalized for this approach, as it is very clear tomost referees that the inside of a Wedge play is no place to make finedistinctions like identifying the ownership of body parts.) Your Mike and Willmust also control their instincts and hang back. If your line is doing its job, the2L defenders will not be confronted with a rampaging pack of offensive linemenwith the fullback buried somewhere inside. Instead, they will face a frustratedmass milling in front of them, trying to create an opening for the fullbackthrough brute force. If and when such an opening appears -- and never beforethat -- Mike or Will should shoot through the gap and make the tackle low and85