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Seeing how things are slow this week...

Guidry often employs a 4-2-5 or 4-3 defensive scheme, which allows for flexibility against various offensive formations.

In terms of coverages, Guidry has been known to use Cover 2, Cover 3, and Cover 4 zone coverages along with man-to-man press coverage. He likes to mix up coverages and blitz packages to keep offenses guessing and to exploit weaknesses in their protection schemes.

Here's a 101 video into the various coverages we will see him use. We can then build the knowledge base from there. Sorry to those who think this is too basic, your input is welcome in teaching us more.





 
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I like these high school videos because they keep things really basic and they're good for the average fan who doesn't understand certain coverages or calls. Obviously there's a learning curve at higher levels but the basics are still the same. Cover three is cover three in high school or the NFL.
 
obcanes said:
Seeing how things are slow this week...

Guidry often employs a 4-2-5 or 4-3 defensive scheme, which allows for flexibility against various offensive formations.

In terms of coverages, Guidry has been known to use Cover 2, Cover 3, and Cover 4 zone coverages along with man-to-man press coverage. He likes to mix up coverages and blitz packages to keep offenses guessing and to exploit weaknesses in their protection schemes.

Here's a 101 video into the various coverages we will see him use. We can then build the knowledge base from there. Sorry to those who think this is too basic, your input is welcome in teaching us more.





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Does he have the players?

Last year people were hyping up TVD’s Heisman chances and draft status. I kept saying none of that was possible if his receivers can’t complete a catch.

So for this scheme to work, do we have players that can tackle?
 
yuhot said:
What's the difference between this defense and Manny's?
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There are big differences between the two. Both are aggressive but Manny tends to be very soft in his coverages which is how he mitigates risk. Guidry is more sophisticated in terms of his coverage calls and much more sophisticated in terms of different blitz packages. Manny's Defense is fundamentally unsound where as Guidry's defenses are fundamentally sound with gap integrity.

Manny basically runs a hyper aggressive defense with his front 7 while playing what amounts to prevent behind that in the secondary to prevent big plays in case his front or his blitz doesn't get home.

That's what I have noticed but there are many here that can really break it down much better and in much more detail.
 
In many cases Mannys defense was smoked just from an alignment aspect. When we sent guys on blitz’s we never replaced the vacant spot. Often times the blitzes were picked up because we didn’t disguise well and bang they just hit an easy slant for 20.

In terms of gap integrity… there was zero under many. And guys in coverage we covering grass. We never really saw pattern matching and we definitely never say guys being passed off. Often times guys were clueless on who to pick up and cover.

Last year I didn’t watch many games bc we were absolute trash so I have no idea about Steele’s defense.

I don’t know much about this Guidry cat, but hopefully we play soundly and not get smoked off the snap.
 
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About 50% of coverage calls in P5 football are some form of single-high Safety structure. (Cover-3 or Cover-1)
Those are the most common coverage calls, followed by Quarters (C4) which makes up 23% of defensive coverage calls.

Cover-2 is hot basura and has become relatively useless in today's game. It leaves a light box versus the run and is susceptible to RPO's.

My kid at Tulane said that Guidry is mostly Quarters.
 
FrancisSawyer said:
There are big differences between the two. Both are aggressive but Manny tends to be very soft in his coverages which is how he mitigates risk. Guidry is more sophisticated in terms of his coverage calls and much more sophisticated in terms of different blitz packages. Manny's Defense is fundamentally unsound where as Guidry's defenses are fundamentally sound with gap integrity.

Manny basically runs a hyper aggressive defense with his front 7 while playing what amounts to prevent behind that in the secondary to prevent big plays in case his front or his blitz doesn't get home.

That's what I have noticed but there are many here that can really break it down much better and in much more detail.
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From what I've seen thus far, Guidry is sound and calculated with his blitz schemes. Manny however just blitzes while completely voiding zones of the defense, hoping that the Quarterback doesn't see them.

Guidry always looks for opportunities to send pressure but he has "guardrails" in place.
Manny was more reckless.
 
yuhot said:
What's the difference between this defense and Manny's?
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Guidry’s defense is more gap sound and disciplined, disguised blitzes mixed in with different coverage combinations on the back end. Manny’s D was based on pure havoc causing penetration…. gap discipline, be damned… mixed in with off coverages and mostly undisguised blitzes coming at any time.
 
Coach Macho said:
About 50% of coverage calls in P5 football are some form of single-high Safety structure. (Cover-3 or Cover-1)
Those are the most common coverage calls, followed by Quarters (C4) which makes up 23% of defensive coverage calls.

Cover-2 is hot basura and has become relatively useless in today's game. It leaves a light box versus the run and is susceptible to RPO's.

My kid at Tulane said that Guidry is mostly Quarters.
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Certainly interesting to see how defensive development has changed in the NFL and College over the years. The NFL used to be a lot of Cover-3 and then, against some guy named Mahomes, started playing Tampa 2 all over again.

In College you can't run that. Your linebackers are in a bind then and they get annihilated because of the lack of run support. It's too soft of a coverage.

Quarters has seen a nice surge in popularity over the years. Its very flexible in terms of alignment and helps the linebackers with reading keys.
 
Coach Macho said:
About 50% of coverage calls in P5 football are some form of single-high Safety structure. (Cover-3 or Cover-1)
Those are the most common coverage calls, followed by Quarters (C4) which makes up 23% of defensive coverage calls.

Cover-2 is hot basura and has become relatively useless in today's game. It leaves a light box versus the run and is susceptible to RPO's.

My kid at Tulane said that Guidry is mostly Quarters.
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It's impossible NOT TO NOTICE.
 
Coach Macho said:
From what I've seen thus far, Guidry is sound and calculated with his blitz schemes. Manny however just blitzes while completely voiding zones of the defense, hoping that the Quarterback doesn't see them.

Guidry always looks for opportunities to send pressure but he has "guardrails" in place.
Manny was more reckless.
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Guidry definitely has some coverage rolled to the gap the blitz leaves in the scheme. Guidry also allows his DB unit to play much more AGGRESSIVE AT THE LOS.
 
Canezum5 said:
Guidry definitely has some coverage rolled to the gap the blitz leaves in the scheme. Guidry also allows his DB unit to play much more AGGRESSIVE AT THE LOS.
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Not sure if we have the corners to be more aggressive yet. Hopefully we can get someone else in the portal.
 
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Coach Macho said:
About 50% of coverage calls in P5 football are some form of single-high Safety structure. (Cover-3 or Cover-1)
Those are the most common coverage calls, followed by Quarters (C4) which makes up 23% of defensive coverage calls.

Cover-2 is hot basura and has become relatively useless in today's game. It leaves a light box versus the run and is susceptible to RPO's.

My kid at Tulane said that Guidry is mostly Quarters.
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That would be correct.
 
Coach Macho said:
From what I've seen thus far, Guidry is sound and calculated with his blitz schemes. Manny however just blitzes while completely voiding zones of the defense, hoping that the Quarterback doesn't see them.

Guidry always looks for opportunities to send pressure but he has "guardrails" in place.
Manny was more reckless.
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facts
 
TheEye said:
Does he have the players?

Last year people were hyping up TVD’s Heisman chances and draft status. I kept saying none of that was possible if his receivers can’t complete a catch.

So for this scheme to work, do we have players that can tackle?
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I'd be willing to bet TVD returns to form in the new offense even if they trot out the same receivers as last season. He put up ridiculous numbers in 2021 when his top two guys weren't even draftable. He doesn't need Randy Moss to look good in a QB friendly system.
 
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