New defense thoughts

Architorture23 said:
technically, none of the above. in Woody's 3-4, the jack is like a sam in other schemes. typically plays n the strong side. 2 ILBs are Wil and Mike. the stinger is the 4th LB, on the outside, more hybrid safety than the jack, who is more DE/LB hybrid (Vic Alexander.) then you still have 2 safeties, a free and a strong.

this is a pretty good look at a 1-gap 3-4 and I think pretty close to what Woody runs. http://breakdownsports.blogspot.com/2014/10/football-fundamentals-one-gap-3-4-Defense.html

Below is where they line up although they might flip left-right, depending on strength.

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Your image shows the Jack on the weak side, though. Is that where we line him up? And if so, do we usually slant the DL to the strong side gaps to compensate for the available space?
 
beej67 said:
Your image shows the Jack on the weak side, though. Is that where we line him up? And if so, do we usually slant the DL to the strong side gaps to compensate for the available space?
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The drawing has Mike and Wil labeled under W and M, so it’s reversed.
 
I missed the TE. But I also don't know if we switch M/W and J/Stgr around depending on the strength of the offense. Read the article I posted and it talks about how some just have a left and a right and some have a strong and a weak.
 
Architorture23 said:
But I also don't know if we switch M/W and J/Stgr around depending on the strength of the offense.
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This is a question I would like answered about our system. Are we aligned based on boundary/field, or based on strong/weak offensive alignment? Do our Jack and Stinger switch sides on the defense during an offensive formation shift? These sorts of things.
 
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beej67 said:
This is a question I would like answered about our system. Are we aligned based on boundary/field, or based on strong/weak offensive alignment? Do our Jack and Stinger switch sides on the defense during an offensive formation shift? These sorts of things.
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I honestly couldn't tell, watching the game. I know our Jack was basically lined up as a rush end and our Stinger was off the line, even with the ILBs, but they seemed to switch sides and sometimes be on the strong side and sometimes not. I'd love to hear an explanation for this as well.
 
beej67 said:
This is a question I would like answered about our system. Are we aligned based on boundary/field, or based on strong/weak offensive alignment? Do our Jack and Stinger switch sides on the defense during an offensive formation shift? These sorts of things.
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In a quick review of a sample of our plays from last saturday, it looks like Brant Mitchell plays on the QBs right side pretty much every time. Alcorn didn't play much with a TE, but on two plays I did see with a TE, Brant is on the strong side. The times where he is not on the right were when Alcorn had trips left.

On one of the TE plays, the Stinger was on the strong side off the line, but on the other he was not. On the trips plays, the Stinger was in coverage on the nearest slot man.
 
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jacket67 said:
The safety didn't look at the tight end until he was inside the 5 yard line, so must have bought the fake handoff. I would hope we would defend that better.
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We are gonna pick that garbage.
 
johncu said:
Our even front basically looked like a 4-3 against Alcorn with the Jack (Alexander/Henderson) rushing the QB basically every play. One of the purported advantages of a 3-4 is the ability to vary and disguise blitzes, so I'll be curious to see how much more of that we do against better competition. As it was, our only sack of the game came when Campbell blitzed from the Stinger position and was not accounted for.

As for coverage, I didn't pay any attention to that either. I was completely zoned in on our pass rush and underneath coverage, since that is where we seem to have struggled for 10 years now.
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CPJ kind of chuckled when a reporter asked how much of the playbook was used on offense/defense last week. It wasn’t much for either. I imagine blitz packages will be installed moving forward and like you I’m excited to see more varied blitzes.
 
beej67 said:
This is a question I would like answered about our system. Are we aligned based on boundary/field, or based on strong/weak offensive alignment? Do our Jack and Stinger switch sides on the defense during an offensive formation shift? These sorts of things.
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Stinger and Mike travel together as well as the Will and Jack.

If they shift, then i would guess yes. (If the offense shift better known as “reload” the defense is allowed to also)

With 1 back system like USF, you aligned the defense to the:
Back
Hash
Slot
 
WreckRod said:
I've never seen us cover a TE, ever. The lone awesome exception being Jemea Thomas just eating Eric Ebron's lunch.
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Yep. It's basically the same as an AB seam route though--you'd think our guys would know how to defend it

I don't mind if it gets us once. The several times a game is old
 
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