2LD Defense - Gregory Double Wing

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hard. If your 1L succeeds in stopping the Wedge cold, there is every chance therefs will whistle the play dead before a crack ever appears. That's defensivefootball.The Trap, especially off Spin action, requires similar restraint by your Coredefenders. Once again, your 1L is subject to double- and triple-teaming on thisplay, so must submarine and build a pile when they feel that pressure. Mike andWill will most likely face angle blocks, and must fight to hold their position. Thelineman being trapped should stay low and look for the trapper out of hisperipheral vision. I favor turning the defender's shoulders to face the oncomingtrap block, but I know other coaches disagree with that technique. Theimportant thing is that you are prepared to face the Trap through repetition inpractice. Again, this is a slower-evolving play than the T-formation quick trap.Your 2L defenders will have time to read and react, as long as they don’t gocharging ahead to "make things happen" before carefully diagnosing the play.Finally, there is the weak-side game -- inside, off-tackle, and outside reverses.These can come from straight series (tailback starts off strong and hands to thewingback heading weak) or spin action (fullback initiates the play with a full spinbefore handing to wingback heading weak). The play of the Backside End iscrucial to containing this threat. Ron (or Len against a Single Wing LeftFormation) should alert with a call of "CRACK-CRACK" if the split end attempts toclip the Backside End. If Mike and Will are reading their key triangles properly,they should either be: 1) holding position in the middle waiting for a Trap orCounter to develop, which will put them in better position to play the outsidereverse than if they had followed the tailback to the strong side, and in perfectposition to fight the off-tackle or inside reverse; or 2) following the guards andblocking back to the weak side, forming a seamless wall along with the BacksideEnd for the reverse to crash into.The drop-back passing game is not the strong point of most Single Wingoffenses -- if this was a good passing team you were facing, they'd be in ashotgun or spread formation, not bunched in tight. Nevertheless, you should beprepared to follow certain rules. The Single Wing is well adapted to forming apassing pocket, so your Ends should remain concerned with containment even asthey rush the tailback (or fullback, in some Single Wing offenses). The minimalsplits between offensive linemen mean your best bet for pressure will come fromthe corners rather than up the middle -- consider Cushion and Switch blitzes (p.31). Otherwise, mix up straight Cover to account for play-action passes withMax. A Single Wing offense can’t easily send four men deep without resorting tomotion and tipping their hand. Your Deep Safety is your best insurance againstthe "home-run ball" being completed. He will find after a few drop-back passesthat the Single Wing is a fairly predictable passing formation, and that he will getgood reads all day long from the tailback or fullback passing the ball.86
WING-T: The Wing-T is a powerful, four-back, run-oriented offensive systemwhich achieves a balance of passing yardage through a series of excellent playactionpasses. The recent addition of the fly/jet/speed sweep series (a recentCoach of the Year Clinics book listed articles about the same play under all threenames) to the traditional buck sweep/belly/option threats has given the Wing-T anew lease on life, and made it even more dangerous to face defensively.That said, I believe the 2-Level Defense (either the John Thomson or the RichardLex variety) is the best possible platform for defensing the Wing-T, for thefollowing reasons: Mirroring: The automatic mirroring of potential receivers by the SecondLevel (2L) ensures that we are never out of position to cover running orpassing plays, including the speed sweep; Stemming: Our use of pre-snap shifting among the 13 possible First Level(1L) fronts, combined with the five potential locations for 2L defenders tostack in the defensive core, yields a total of 242 possible 2LD fronts that wecan move among just prior to the snap. A rule-blocking-based offense likethe Wing-T is placed at a serious disadvantage if the offensive linemen areforced to mentally adjust their blocks a split-second before the ball issnapped; and The Deep Safety Blanket: The Deep Safety (DS) gives the 2LD anadvantage no other defense has -- a last line of defense that shuts down thedeep pass, the breakaway run, and ultimately the cheap touchdown.Offenses realize after a few series that they will have to grind it out against agood 2LD team. Defenders also quickly build confidence that, if they executetheir assignments properly, the "Deep Safety Blanket" will protect them froma quick offensive strike.87
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BACK TO THE FUTURE:INSTALLING THE 2
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THE CONCEPT: BUYING (AND SELLING) T
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THE BASICSWORKING WITHIN THE SYSTEM
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Formations with Area A receivers ca
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THE 2LD BY POSITIONHere are some th
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ALIGNMENTS (Note: The Deep Safety a
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In Odd fronts, the Nose has two-gap
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2 Stacks: The defender stacks behin
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FUNDAMENTALS: First LevelStance:Nos
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locker: if the lineman he is slanti
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ENDS: COVER, SHORTSIDE SQUARE, AND
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ENDS: SHORTSIDE SQUARE ASSIGNMENTS2
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the ball moves across the core away
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This is the DS "glide path". He sho
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TET similarly involves a Tackle and
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COVERAGESMax (man) coverage is the
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Max/Tight Cushion is an excellent m
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Page 38 and 39: Finally, if we call Cover against a
Page 40 and 41: In the above diagram, the left Tack
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Page 44 and 45: [Two Key Concepts of 2LD: 1) Ten de
Page 46 and 47: PRACTICE #1:FIRST LEVEL: Whether No
Page 48 and 49: ALLEY DRILL (Odd Front vs. Drop-bac
Page 50 and 51: SECOND LEVELSTACK DRILLSWe teach 2L
Page 52 and 53: personnel in C-stacks take a deep p
Page 54 and 55: BEATEN-OUTFIELDER/DOWN-OUT-DOWN DRI
Page 56 and 57: DEEP SAFETY:ENFORCEMENT DRILLSENFOR
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Page 60 and 61: The above diagram illustrates that
Page 62 and 63: PRACTICE #2:3-ON-1 SLANT KEYN/T SLA
Page 64 and 65: I-BACK MIRROR DRILLSNote: This dril
Page 66 and 67: PRACTICE #4 SCHEDULE:2-Level Defens
Page 68 and 69: PRACTICE #5CROSS-KEY DRILLS -- RUN
Page 74 and 75: PRACTICE #956 GOAL -- MAX56 GOAL -
Page 76 and 77: PRACTICE #10 SCHEDULE:2-Level Defen
Page 78 and 79: Play% of all plays run2 Wedge 3588
Page 80 and 81: D&D 8 Hole% 7 Hole%1&7+ 90 102&5+ 9
Page 82 and 83: to stem on motion, we can shift out
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Page 88 and 89: SHUTTING DOWN THE THREATS:Buck Swee
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