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JayCane20 said:
Ya I don't care what we run as far as alignment. The 2 gap exclusive stuff has basically disappeared at this point. Saban, Smart, Aranda, Leonhard, etc and the premier defensive coaches ask their big man in the middle to control 2 gaps.

I've never coached the Tite front but the point is to take some gap responsibility away from you wlb, right? Mainly to be more effective against the RPO and spread passing attack. Someone has to 2 gap to do that.
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Main objective is to take away zone runs and RPO's. The 4i alignments makes it extremely hard to run zone, and also hard to reach the second level.

If you slant the Nose, there's only 1 interior gap 'open'. (either A-gap)
Slanting the Nose strong alleviates your Mike LB of any interior gap responsibility.
Now the Mike LB can bump out and play in the RPO slant window, or tackle the QB on Zone\Read. If you are playing 2-Read or even Quarters behind this front, your Nickel can also tackle the Quarterback.

2-gapping the Nose is fine if you have a guy that can do it, but I don't think it's necessary for success. Although I do know that's how Georgia prefers to do it.

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Hogan said:
i think the kids love the challenge of the playbook and also the versatility that comes with it. everyone has a role, everyone is aware of it, but based on the opponent, different guys will have their chance to shine. and thats what keeps them engaged.
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You're absolutely right bro, and that's what I try to preach to them. Shoot, I remember games where my Free Safety and Strong Safety both had sacks, but none of my Linebackers did.
 
Coach Macho said:
Main objective is to take away zone runs and RPO's. The 4i alignments makes it extremely hard to run zone, and also hard to reach the second level.

If you slant the Nose, there's only 1 interior gap 'open'. (either A-gap)
Slanting the Nose strong alleviates your Mike LB of any interior gap responsibility.
Now the Mike LB can bump out and play in the RPO slant window, or tackle the QB on Zone\Read. If you are playing 2-Read or even Quarters behind this front, your Nickel can also tackle the Quarterback.

2-gapping the Nose is fine if you have a guy that can do it, but I don't think it's necessary for success. Although I do know that's how Georgia prefers to do it.

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How defenses are countering the spread by packing in Tite

What the Tite front is, why it’s gotten so popular, why it hasn’t taken full hold in the NFL, and what’s coming next.
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Appreciate that. Georgia is who I was looking at because I knew they did it best. Probably why I assumed the NG 2 gapping was how its usually ran.

Gotta be nice to have a big ugly like Jordan Davis manning the middle. Every bit of 6'6 340 lbs
 
Coach Macho said:
You're absolutely right bro, and that's what I try to preach to them. Shoot, I remember games where my Free Safety and Strong Safety both had sacks, but none of my Linebackers did.
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given that probably all of them want to play at the next level, having a scheme like yours absolutely helps, because it creates tape for everyone

jeez, why cant we have a defensive coordinator like that
 
JayCane20 said:
Appreciate that. Georgia is who I was looking at because I knew they did it best. Probably why I assumed the NG 2 gapping was how its usually ran.

Gotta be nice to have a big ugly like Jordan Davis manning the middle. Every bit of 6'6 340 lbs
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Those are tough guys to find, no doubt about that. Not only physically, but finding kids with that mentality. So I definitely understand your point. But I think every scheme has at least one position that has to be a dude.
My kid (Tarber) would fit perfectly in that role, but generally you don't find those kids in South Florida. Everybody wants to get up field and penetrate.

I do feel that our recruiting ground has plenty of talent for us to be more multiple though. Lots of tweener guys down here who can play the Rush OLB\DE spot. And guys like Roberts, Taylor or even JHH can play the 4i or a slanting 3-4 DE.
 
Coach Macho said:
Those are tough guys to find, no doubt about that. Not only physically, but finding kids with that mentality. So I definitely understand your point. But I think every scheme has at least one position that has to be a dude.
My kid (Tarber) would fit perfectly in that role, but generally you don't find those kids in South Florida. Everybody wants to get up field and penetrate.

I do feel that our recruiting ground has plenty of talent for us to be more multiple though. Lots of tweener guys down here who can play the Rush OLB\DE spot. And guys like Roberts, Taylor or even JHH can play the 4i or a slanting 3-4 DE.
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Saw you guys play stoneman douglas when i was down for the MSU game. Was wondering why Tarber isn't being recruited by the canes. I guess they don't think he's a scheme fit but that's the kinds of guys we need to be recruiting when you can find them in our area.
 
Coach Macho said:
I definitely run more stuff at Deerfield than Miami does on Saturdays. 😂

FRONTS - Odd (3-4), Odd Tite, Odd Jet, Under (4 front) and Bear (5 front) are the fronts that we use almost weekly.

COVERAGES - Cover-3, Cover-1, Cover-2-Read, Cover-6, Cover-2-Man, Cover-0 and "Special" are the coverages that we use.

We also have 5 or 6 different personnel groupings that we use every week...
"Regular" (2 DE's, 1 Nose, 4 LB's)
"Beef" (3 DT's, 2 DE\OLB's, 2 ILB's)
"Under" (2 DT's, 2 DE's, 2 ILB's, 1 Nickel)
"Nascar" (2 LB's, 1 Nickel, 4 DE's - pass rush personnel)
"Dime" (2 DE's, 1 Nose, 2 LB's, 6 DB's)
"Penny" (removes the Nose from Dime package and adds an extra LB so we can vary how we send pressure and\or spy the QB)

I have a call sheet with 10+ blitzes that we can use out of base personnel, and another 10+ blitzes that we can use out of Dime personnel. We generally don't use all of them, obviously, but it's nice to have them in the tool shed. Pretty much everybody in our back-7 gets to blitz, even the Safeties and Corners. Just depends on whether the offensive formation and\or ball placement will allow us to or not.

Sounds a lot more complex than it is, but it's simple when you break it down for the kids. They know that certain calls\blitzes only apply to them (i.e "Fire" tells the Free Safety to blitz) or "Sting" (Strong Safety) or "Nuke" (Nickel). It sounds the same as their position name, so it's easy for them to remember. It's up to ME to tie certain fronts and coverages to those blitzes. (because not all of them work together)
If you hear your name\position called, you blitz. Let ME worry about what's going on behind you.

This allows us to give the offense so many different looks, that often times they don't even know what we're doing from play to play.
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Can you come and co-ordinate at Miami.

Feel free to shove Diaz in the dumpster
 
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