It was exposed week one a couple of times. A&M used it a few with both a rb and a TE. Guidry needs to find a fix before it really hurts us when someone actually athletic hits it. It's been run over and over the first three weeks and its open every time.
You can't really defend it, if you're blitzing and playing man to man behind it, because the guy usually covering the back in that situation, is an ILB. Most of the time, that ILB is gonna get caught up in all of the other crossing routes (junk, trash, wash, etc. lol). The best way to stop it, in this scenario, is to make sure your blitzers get home, lol!
You can zone blitz, in which you have a zone coverage behind your blitzers. With this, you can cover the wheel route up the sideline, but now the issue is the space(s) you open up. Someone else is now responsible to try and cover a HUGE area that was vacated by the blitzer(s). Even in the most exotic of zone blitz schemes, there are large spaces to try and cover. This is why most DCs will usually attach their blitzes to man coverages. No empty spaces..
Probably the best way to cover the wheel route, while blitzing, is
A. Your blitz "gets home" and kill the QB before he makes the throw.
B. Have a corner/safety "trade off" the RB or WR (wheel route guy) with inside/outside coverage..... which will really fucc your life up, if one of them don't get the call. Now if they got 2 eligible WRs on that side of the field, you're back to square 1, "heading up ***** Creek, without a paddle".... because now your ILB has to cover the RB (3rd Receiver) again. Here comes the trash again.
C. Zone blitz.... which can lead to more headaches because of the large spaces that open up, where the blitzers left.
D. Don't blitz so **** much. Keep the OCs guessing and off guard. When the OC know where you're gonna be, it gives them more of an advantage. Remember they know the play, and the snap count.
Defensive football is an all out guessing game, which is why film study is soooo important, and you must be able to make adjustments must "on the fly". They're strengths and weaknesses to every scheme. We just gotta stop theirs, more times than they can burn ours. I'll stop here. There's literally like a book of ****, I could talk about this stuff for hours, but I don't wanna bore y'all any longer, lol.
