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Defending The Run With The 3-3 Stack Defense James Vint coachvint@gmail.com OPYWRIGHT 2007 James Vint.

1 Defending The Run With The 3-3 Stack Defense James Vint OPYWRIGHT 2007 James Vint. This power point is copyrighted and is protected from unauthorized reproduction by the copyright laws of the United States. Unauthorized use or reproduction without the expressed, written consent of James Vint is strictly prohibited.

2 Topics We Will over Defensive Absolutes Personnel in the 3-3 Stack Alignment Rules Versus Formations Fronts Stunts Blitzes Defending Specific oncepts Defending Personnel Groups

3 Defensive Absolutes 1. We will stop the run! 2. We will control the pass! 3. We will be the best tackling team in our district! 4. We will have great pursuit and get 11 defenders to the football using proper angles! 5. We will create takeaways!

Linebackers Work From Attack Mode LB s Read Less and Play Downhill

4 Why The 33 Stack Puts Your Athletes On The Field Linebackers Are Harder To Block Than Down Guys Allows You Multiple Stunts and Fronts Linebackers Work From Attack Mode LB s Read Less and Play Downhill Attack and Redirect rather than Read and React Great hange-up To Your Base Front

5 Looking At The Stats (olumbus High School) Gave up just 2.2 ypc, reated 39 takeaways, including 8 defensive touchdowns 98 Tackles For Loss, 36 Sacks, 31 Hurries 208 Drop Backs: , only 3 TD Passes 6 Shutouts Held two opponents without a first down Opponents were 23 percent on 3 rd Down Opponents were 6 of 17 in the red zone with 4 TD s. Gave up only 46 yards rushing and 98 total yards per game

6 Personnel Nose: Your nose must be quick, strong like a bull, and force double teams Ends: Your ends must be able to take on a double team from the tight end and tackle and must be strong enough to not get blown out or down on a slant call. Your ends do not need to be big, but the must be strong and athletic. Ideally we want them strong and long

7 Personnel Mike: Your Mike backer is the strongest of your three backers, but he doesn t need to be huge. He must be able to redirect and we like a guy with speed. He has to be our quarterback of the box. Rob/Lou: Our Rob and Lou are speed guys who may be smaller than traditional inside backers. We would like them to be safety types with a little bit of size. They have to be able to blitz well, and must be disciplined enough to stay home while still aggressively pursuing the football. Rob and Lou must be good tacklers as they will get most of your tackles

8 Personnel Stud/Hero: These are your strong safeties/dogs and we did not flip flop them ninety percent of the time. These are athletic kids who can run and tackle. These are where your smart, quick, good tackling athletes play. You want guys who can play force, take on a fullback, yet still drop into pass coverage and chase down the football. We put tough kids here that can run.

9 Personnel Free Safety: This is our perhaps best athlete in an ideal situation. We look for a kid with some size, some speed, and a lot of football smarts to quarterback our secondary. He adjusts more than any other player, so he must be dependable to get lined up. He makes all of our coverage calls and checks, and must be able to read quarterback intentions.

10 Personnel orners: Our corners are guys who can play man coverage in space. We play a lot of cover 3 from this defense, but we use man principals. We want to have guys with good feet who can break on routes. Our corners must stop the deep ball and keep the six yard routes at six, and the ten yard routes at ten.

11 For Your Players Learn What To Do Learn How To Do It Practice Hard and Fast Be A Team Player Develop A Sense of Urgency

12 Defensive Absolutes 1. Stop The Run: No one will run the football successfully against our defense. We will commit as many people to the LOS as necessary in order to stop the run. 2. ontrol the Pass: We are primarily a zone coverage team. We will take away the deep ball and not allow our opponent to score on big plays. We will be proficient in our coverage packages. Our secondary will play hard and fast, forcing incomplete passes and turnovers.

13 Defensive Absolutes 3. We will be the best tackling team in our district! We emphasize fundamental tackling with extreme effort. We will punish ball carriers and develop an attitude and swagger necessary to dominate our opponent. 4. Pursuit: We will get 11 people to the football every play! It does not take talent to hustle to the football. We want as many of our helmets on the ball carrier as we can each play. 5. reate Takeaways: We must create turnovers to give ourselves opportunities for a short field.

14 Takeaways We will create a minimum of three turnovers a game by attacking our opponent. We will work our strip and takeaway drills everyday in practice until they become second nature. Lift and tear Lift and Punch Scoop and Score Slide and Secure

15 Pursuit and Passion DEFENSE IS ABOUT PURSUIT AND PASSION! YOU MUST TEAH HUSTLE IN ALL DRILLS PURSUIT DRILL MUST BE DONE EVERYDAY! PUT YOUR ATHLETES ON THE FIELD NEVER SARIFIE SIZE FOR ATHLETIISM

16 Understanding Pursuit Rules Force- Frontside player who will attack the play at the POA. Traditionally this will be our Stud and Hero. Attack- Frontside 1 st and 2 nd level players who will attack the flow of the football. ollapse- Frontside or Middle 1 st and 2 nd level players who will pursue through the immediate cutback lanes. hase: Backside players who must secure the backside versus counter, trap, reverse, and boot.

17 Understand Pursuit Rules The frontside backer and DE are the attack players. The Nose and Mac play ollapse The Backside Backer and End are the chase players. We practice pursuit 10 minutes each day with no exceptions We work sweep pursuit, power pursuit, and draw pursuit Never run into or follow a player with your colored jersey!

18 Pursuit Rules Illustrated hase ontain E ollapse N E Attack Force $ 2 nd level hase Attack L M R H hase ollapse This Illustration gives you a look at the angles for a sweep/edge run.

19 Keys to Stopping the Run Line Up Right Good knee bend Must play downhill Shoulders and Hips must stay square Play your gap! Know your leverage Take great angles Relentless pursuit to the football

20 oaching Points Must have a force player to each side Must know option responsibilities Must understand leverage and angles Must understand the strengths and weaknesses of each call Put the best kids on the field and in a position where they can be their best

21 Defensive Line Techniques Defensive lineman will line up with a slightly elongated stance. In passing situations we want the butt in the air The foot that is back will be the hand that is down. Weight will be 60 percent on the hand Use a ball key, ball moves, you move The foot replaces the hand We attack 1/3 of the man! We never play the middle of the man unless on a bull technique. We attack our gap shoulder and feel the block of the offensive lineman. We want to be physical on the gap shoulder Maintain gap integrity while squeezing the gap. Never penetrate past the butt of the offensive lineman ontrol your gap and maintain gap integrity

22 Inside Backer Rules Run, Draw, Screen, Pass ATTAK DOWNHILL Mike Keys The Offensive Guard To Flow (FB) Mike Keys A Gap (Frontside) Lou and Rob Key The Gap Shoulder of their lineman to flow. Lou and Rob play B gap in our base If Lou or Rob is in an Up technique on TE, Squeeze the D into the. Limit TE Release Stacked Backers take three key steps aggressively downhill and read key LB s are the last players to Drop on pass Attack First, Then Redirect Don t get caught too close to the LOS- Play at 5 Yards Know where your outside help is located MAKE THE DLINE RIGHT!

23 Dogs Rules Line Up Splitting The Distance from EMOL and WR versus pro look. If no ISWR, you have D gap force Versus two receivers, play inside leverage to head up on #2, unless game plan calls for adjustments. You have force/support. Defend the bubble Versus Trips, line up on #2 at 5 yards and collision number 2. You must defend the bubble. On closed side, reduce alignment to 4x4. We can reduce further based on game plan Key EMOL for run/pass, low hat/high hat. WR key is #2. Buzz Hook/url to Flat You have a numbers drop Do Not Get Locked Inside On Toss!

24 Alignment Rules Dogs Dogs are going to be our force players most of the time They must work to leverage the football They will take on all blocks at LOS with inside shoulder

25 GAP FITS The 33 Stack is an attacking gap control defense It is imperative that each player understand their gap responsibility No one is allowed to attack a gap other than the gap they are assigned You must practice gap fits everyday! You must have a player responsible for each run gap.

26 Base Gap Assignments Key Gap Hip of Down Defender D B A A B

27 Basic Run oncepts We play an attacking Gap ontrol oncept Each Box Defender is responsible for 1 Gap We attack the gap shoulder of our run key We will be aggressive and get down hill Maintain Gap Integrity We will pursue to the football through our gap and into our proper pursuit lanes Everyone must be relentless in pursuit

28 Example of Playing Downhill

29 Our Base Alignment E N E $ L M R H F Vs. 2x2

30 Base Front E N E $ L M R H ALIGN GAP TEH RUN TO RUN AWAY PASS SPRINT NOSE O TEH BS A GAP GAP ONT OLLAPSE OLLAPSE 2 WAY GO HIP POKET TE 4 TEH GAP GAP ONT ATTAK HASE RUSH ONT. ATTAK OE 4 TEH GAP GAP ONT ATTAK HASE RUSH ONT. ATTAK M STAK AT 5 FS A GAP GAP ATT OLLAPSE OLLAPSE LOW HOLE TRAIL DEPTH L 50 TEH B GAP GAP ATT ATTAK HASE HASH DROP HEK/GO R 50 TEH B GAP GAP ATT ATTAK HASE HASH DROP HEK/GO S Split at 5 D GAP Pat feet Force/Fold HASE #'S DROP FLAT HEK H Split at 5 D GAP Pat feet Force/Fold HASE #'2 DROP FLAT HEK

31 Pre-Snap Mike Makes a RIP/LIZ call to identify the strength. The inside backer to the strength makes an I m Sam all. The backer away from the call makes an I m Will call. We do not have to flip personnel. We can call stunts and blitzes by direction, strength, to the field, and to the boundary

32 I m Here Player The backside invert is often going to be a bonus player If an invert has an open side single, he will make an I m Here call to the backer to his side. He is letting the backer know he can play very fast.

33 I m Here Player Illustrated

34 I m Here Player

35 Front Adjustments in The Odd Stack Double Eagle- Versus 2x2- Both ends in loose 3 techs Over- Linebacker to TE aligns in a 6, Tight Side DE aligns in a 3, Nose in a 1 Weak Under-Strong End to 5, Nose to 1, Weak End to a 3 Up Linebacker to the Tight End Plays in a 6 Tech. Wyoming- Rob and Lou line up 2 yards outside the EMOL

36 Double Eagle Take Away Inside Run over the Guards Reduces the ability of the offense to double the nose Weakness: Down Block from tackles

37 Base Alignment vs 20 Double Eagle

38 Double Eagle Front vs. 2x2 Our Ends will now play B gap unless we make an adjustment Our Rob and Lou now play Gap Ends must take the B Gap Away

39 Eagle Strong Great to take away power and Iso Strong Mike can bump 1 Gap Strong or can stay stacked on enter

40 Up Front Used to take away tight end side run Puts linebacker to TE side in a 6 6 Tech enters TE s mouth and exits his backside Gap Responsible Looks to spill kickout blocks Mike and Will must bump to 30 s.

41 Up Front L E N E $ M R H F LB to the TE will play in a 6 tech- He must control TE Tight Side End must control the tackle Mike and Rob will bump over ½ gap Mike favors the A gap but must help on the B gap.

42 Up Front Ends Stay in 4 Techniques

43 ombine Up With Eagle We can also combine Up with Eagle Front over up offensive lineman Allows stunt possibilities Free s Mike Backer to Run an Run Eagle Strong, Eagle Weak, or Double Eagle

44 Double Eagle Up

45 Over Front L E N E $ M R H F LB to the TE will play in a 6 Tech- He is the gap player Tight Side End Moves to a 3 Mike and Rob will bump over ½ gap Stud has D gap Force

46 Over Front Sam walks up into a 6 and plays 6 tech rules Will bumps to 40, mike to a 20 Nose can slide to shade, or stay in Zero

47 Under L E N E $ M R H F Sam in 9 Tech DE s stay in 4, Strong DE slants, weak DE Slants B Mike and Rob will bump over ½ gap Backside Invert has Gap

48 Under Front Nose slides to strong Shade- Mike and Will Bump Sam in 9 Tech Hero has Gap

49 Slant to Under Front Instead of lining up in Under, defense can slant to it

50 Slant to Over Defense can slant weak into the Under Front

51 Hammer Technique $ E N E L M R F H Hammer alerts our strong defensive end he will slam the B gap shoulder of the guard. To run this stunt away from our tight or strength call we would call Drill. To both sides, we would make a Build call.

52 Stunts Tank- Slant To all (Rip/Liz) Army- Slant Away From all Lilly/Larry- Line Left/Line Right Hammer/Drill/Build- End in B Gap Rocket-Inside 6 work one gap right Laser- Inside gaps work one gap left Rocket/Laser always work to the formation strength

53 Tank (Lilly) To the call Aim for gap hip

54 Army (Lilly) Away from Strength Attack Gap Shoulder

55 Laser Designed to take away formation heavy run teams

56 Run Blitz oncepts Smoke- Strong Invert Blitz Double Smoke- Both Inverts Flame- Weak Invert Blitz Slice- Strong Invert Gap Blitz Slab- Strong Invert B Gap Burn- Weak Invert B Gap Bullets- Rob and Lou Blitz Fire- One Backer Blitzes Base Gap MOB- Mike B Gap MA- Mike Gap Uzzi- Two off the Edge oncept Rocky- Rob Gap, Lunatic, Lou Gap

57 Blitz oncepts Blitz your assigned gap Blitz and redirect to the football If ball goes away, don t continue on blitz path- adjust with the ball Stay square and maintain gap integrity

58 Smoke Strong invert blitzes Edge Keep Ball Inside Blitz and Redirect

59 Flame Weak Tackle can stay very thick on OT

60 Slice (Strong) Sam becomes force guy

61 Burn Burn puts the open side invert through the B gap.

62 ombining alls (Sam Fire Burn) Sam Fire Burn Great versus strong side Iso

63 Lou Gap Lunatic

64 Lunatic MOB

65 Defending Popular oncepts Lead/Iso Power/Toss IS/OS Zone Spread Offense Option Responsibilities Wing-T

66 Defending The Lead/Iso The playside backer must wreck and splat the play We teach our backer to splat to help. Our Mike must take on the Iso block with his outside shoulder. Our Lou and Rob take on the Iso block with their inside shoulder. TAKE ON ISO BLOKS AT LOS! We want to create a triangle to the football. Our dogs must play force/fold, staying home for the bounce, then folding inside to help on the tackle.

67 Defending the Isolation Play We are creating a triangle around the football. $ E N E L M R F The playside end must not get turned out He must restrict the space. The Lou must attack FB at LOS H

68 Defending Power We must restrict the kick out block. Our defensive end must play tough against down block and double team. He must not get driven more than 1 yard off the ball. We must wreck the FB and turn the play inside. Our Dog will most likely be taking on the kickout. He must take it on with his IS ½ at the LOS. Our linebackers must flow and be ready for the ball to be turned back inside. We must be consistent up front so we can be sound versus play action. We must defend the boot and counter.

69 Defending the Power Our Playside End must get BIG in his gap. $ E N E L M R H F Our open side invert makes an I m Here call.

70 Up ARMY $ L E M N The Lou will SPILL the fullback and get vertical- F R E H Our open side invert makes an I m Here call.

71 Defending the IS/OS Zone We must read and control our gap shoulder. DL can t get reached and pinned on outside zone. onstrict your gap shoulder. LB s must make a quick read and track gap shoulder. Find the window Do Not over pursue! Backside Boot player must stay home! Take away the cutback by staying in your pursuit lanes. Work down the line without getting too much penetration.

72 Defending Spread Sets We will discourage the bubble by alignment. We will not get in a bad coverage match-up. We will always have a quarterback player if they are a Zone Read Team We will game plan to eliminate their best running threat. We must understand which concepts they are running. Follow Option Rules When in doubt, be aggressive in your base.

73 Defending Spread Sets Understand down and distance! Teach your players how to be aggressive against the run and still get a good pass drop. Drill your players on the high/hat low/hat concept. Understand their will be no lead play without motion. Who will the read player be? What are their formation tendencies?

74 Our Base Alignment vs. Ace E N E $ L M R H F Key: The tight side end must be able to restrict the gap. Our Stud will be the Force Player on any outside run to his side. We have no I m here call

75 Our Base Alignment vs. Spread E N E $ L M R H F We will defend bubble by alignment. Our 6 run players must be aggressive and understand down and distance. Our backers will deepen up.

76 Our Base look vs. Spread

77 Defending Zone Read and Speed Option E N E $ L M R H F We must have a pitch and QB player to the side of the back for speed option. We must have a QB player for Zone Read. In this case, our gap player has QB. Our D gap player has pitch on speed option.

78 Lunatic heck over 3 E N E $ L M R F H Key: The End to the back s side must play the B gap. The Lou will be our QB player! We want to entice a pull read. Out end must not let himself get washed down.

79 Uzzi heck over 3 E N E $ L M R F H Key: The Lou and the Stud will come off the edge. We will play man behind this. The FS will creep pre-snap. We run this to take away zone read and ZR option.

80 Hammer Technique $ E N E L M R F H Hammer alerts our defensive end to the tight end they will slam the B gap shoulder of the guard. To run this stunt away from our tight or strength call we would call Drill. To both sides, we would make a build call.

81 Double Eagle Front vs. 2x2 E N E $ L M R H F Our Ends will now play B gap unless we make an adjustment Our Rob and Lou now play Gap Ends must take the B Gap Away

82 Defending The Option Game Must have clear option assignments Have a change-up on your assignments Teach kids about different option plays Must take away their best element Remain Fundamentally Sound! Alter the Mesh Point Don t try to emulate the option game Teach kids to control the big play

83 Defending IS Veer E N E $ L M R H F A and B gap players play dive Gap player has QB D Gap player has pitch Alley player has QB to pitch

84 Defending IS Veer (Lilly all) E N E $ L M R H F Mike and our End have Dive. Rob has QB. D Gap player has pitch Alley player has QB to pitch

85 Lilly Switch E N E $ L M R H F Switch alerts our Dog he will play QB. Our LB will play pitch. This is a great change-up

86 OS Veer $ E N E L M R H F Our Dog to the TE must be alert to feather Our End must be strong against a double team. Our Rob and Mike must read gap to flow Our Hero will be alert to feather!

87 Rocket all to TE for OS Veer E N E $ L M R H F We tell our Hero if the QB still has the ball, feather. Give us time to rally. Be in a position to tackle the QB if he turns upfield. When you have a TE to your side, be alert for OS Veer.

88 Taking Away The Tight End Side Run Front Adjustments Stunts Blitzes Smoke Stud Blitz MOB Mike Strongside B Gap MA Mike Strongside Gap Blitz overage Options

89 Up Army L E N E $ M R H Nose-Backside A Gap Strong End-4 Tech, Squeeze B Weak End-4 Tech Squeeze MA-30 Tech Frontside A Gap Lou-6 On TE-Squeeze Gap Rob-30 Tech- B Gap F Stud-D Gap Force Hero-Weak Force orners-5 to 7 Yards, Head UP, -3 Free-B Gap TE Side, -3

90 Up Tank LB s Adjust Gaps with Full Flow Weak- Shown in Black L E N E $ M R H Nose-Frontside A Gap Strong End-4 Tech, Squeeze Weak End-4 Tech Squeeze MA-30 Tech Frontside B Gap Lou-6 On TE-Squeeze D Gap Rob-30 Tech- A Gap F Stud-D Gap Force Hero- Gap Weak Force orners-5 to 7 Yards, Head UP, -3 Free-B Gap TE Side, -3

91 Over Army Mac over 3 Robber L E N E $ M R F The Lou Stems to the B Gap H The Strong End, Nose, and Weak End play ARMY The Hero reads uncovered to flow. He is force on flow weak, and fills inside out on flow strong. The backside orner locks the backside WR.

92 Over MOB Smoke L E N E $ M R F H

93 Up MOB Slice Slice alerts our Stud to blitz through the Gap L E N E $ M R H F

94 Bama Laser Smoke (Rocket Laser heck) Laser or Rocket puts us on a full slant E N E $ L M R H F

95 Dangers of Blitzing When you blitz, you expose weaknesses Be sure you prepare for worst case scenario Make sure you account for each gap Drill your kids on blitz reaction Drill your kids on which zones are voided and where we are weak.

96 Defending Personnel Groups Defending The Wing-T Defending 31 and 32 Personnel Defending 21 and 22 Personnel Defending the 1 back run game

97 Larry/Lilly Larry Alerts our defensive line they will go to the gap to their right. Lilly alerts out defensive line they will go to the gap to their left. Our linebackers our responsible for the gap opposite the defensive lineman. You must practice this during your option and pursuit periods.

98 Defending The Wing-T reate haos with aggressive linebacker play STOP THEIR BREAD AND BUTTER Keep your defensive integrity Keep your keys in-tact Be aggressive and attack with your front 6 Don t get outflanked Force player must keep outside arm free. As a general rule we want 4 players from the tackle out to the wing side, and 3 players from the tackle out to the open side.

99 Base vs. Wing T $ E N E L M R F Strong End must be aggressive and control gap shoulder of OT. (We can adjust him to a 5 tech) The Lou must read his gap key as he attacks. The Mike must read guard to flow. Your Stud must be able to spill a pulling guard. H

100 Alignment vs. Wing-T Base Front

101 Larry vs. Wing T $ E N E L M R The End hammers the B gap hard. The End will spill any trap play. The Mike will key the block on the nose as he attacks. The Lou has Gap F H

102 Defending Jet Sweep $ E N E L M R F H We will have a Lilly all. The End will work to spin the shoulder. The Mike will key the block on the nose as he attacks. The Lou has Gap

103 Laser vs. Wing T $ E N E L M R F H

104 Up Front vs. Wing T $ L E F M N R E H LB to the TE will play in a 9 tech- He must not get down blocked! The end now has to squeeze the. The backers must line up in 30 techniques. Mike must be a beast!

105 Up Front Illustrated

106 Defending 31 and 32 Personnel Stop their best athlete! Keep your backers at their proper depth. Backers have a tendency to creep too close to the line versus 3 back sets. Be aggressive with your force player, but don t let him cross the LOS by more than 1 yard. Your players must understand leverage Your gap players must control the Gap. We frequently adjusted our Dogs to 2x2 or 3x3 alignment

107 Our Base Alignment vs. Wishbone $ E N E L M R F H Key: The tight side end must be able to restrict the gap. Our Stud and Hero will be the Force Players. They will fold inside on Iso

108 Our Base Alignment vs. I Tight $ E N E L M R F H Key: The tight side end must be able to restrict the gap. Our Stud and Hero will be the Force Players. They must not get too far up field!

109 Base Front vs. 32 Personnel

110 Defending 21 Personnel Sets 21 Personnel: 2 Backs 1 TE We will line up in our base front. By alignment we should be in great shape to the open side. We will play cover 0, 1, 2, 3, and 4. We will always have an I m Here Player.

111 Our Base Alignment vs. Twins losed E N E $ L M R F H Key: The tight side end must be able to restrict the gap. Our Stud will be the Force Player on any outside run to his side. He will play fold on Iso.

112 Our Base Alignment vs. Twins Open E N E $ L M R H F Key: This can become a trips concept. We can make a hammer call to the fullback s side.

113 Hammer all vs. Twins Open $ E N E L M R Key: Our Rob must take on the lead block on OS Lead or Toss. F H

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