Backer: The Backer (Tariq Edwards) lines at the same depth as the mike but in the guard tackle gap. It turns into a 1/4-1/4-1/2 scheme, C3, or you have to split the coverage so that the single receiver backside is getting man coverage. If they can get Brown and Hand, I think Foster will figure out a way to take their skills and make it work, but I can GUARENTEE you, every recruiter that visits Brown and Hand will tell them that there has not been a Hokie defensive lineman since Foster was hired that has been a productive multi-year NFL starter. Our DL has way more play making responsibility in the run game than a traditional 4-3 where at least 2 of the linemen are expected to eat double blocks and free up the linebackers. How does pressure relate to coverage? Does this really hurt us? Virginia Tech defensive coordinator Bud Foster, who announced Thursday he would be retiring at the end of this his 33rd season, is the longest continually tenured assistant at the same school in . Jessie has three boys of her. *:JZjz ? The scheme is also simpler to execute because the players are aligned based on ball position, rather than on the strength of the offensive formation. I have no doubt this works against the Hokies in recruiting, but Foster also has archetypes he recruits to for his players. Access Exclusive Content and Financially Support The Key Play. This is especially true for the Whip LB, who no longer drops back as a deep safety in any situation. Can we get this thread retitled - "A Look Back at a Look Back to . Also, against Ace and Doubles sets, the coverage basically changes into 1/4-1/4-1/2 Cover 3. From what I've heard, a lot of the negative recruiting emphasizes that in Tech's defense a DE or OLB (Whip), for example, isn't a traditional NFL DE or OLB. While they are both still hybrid type players, their responsibilities are more confined. If your slot recognizes it and runs a slant, the FS has to hustle to get there and take that away. For example, a corner will not follow a motioning receiver across the field, even if it is man coverage. Also, because of the rather shorter depth of the Safeties, you can attack their run reads directly with a vertical route directly at them, like a Post or Go route up the seam. The dominant defenses in Tampa Bay of the late 90's early 2000's allowed Warren Sapp and Simeon Rice to get up field as the method for controlling their gaps. A "Bear" front covers both OGs and the Center, making it an Odd front. The Rover was a strong side outside linebacker in the 8-man front that would slide out as an additional corner / defensive back against 3-4 wide receiver formations. Exactly like Clemson this year. Rece Davis. While the 8 man front may be gone, the blitz pressures and coverages remain imbedded in today's Hokie D. The "Field Strong" basically is a 4 man defensive line, two middle linebackers, and the whip linebacker playing outside as a hybrid linebacker/safety almost exclusively to the boundary side of the field. Aaron Rodgers, Kellen Moore, Andrew Luck all have great skills under pressure. In the 4-3-4 base set, the Rover aligns as a defensive back, specifically as one of the two safeties. . Former Federal Fugitive Pleads Guilty in California to Massive Fraud and Identity Theft Scheme in Connection with Nationwide Foreclosure Scam Defendant Collected More Than $1.2 Million from More Than 800 Distressed Homeowners . Next week will take film from the Clemson game and demonstrate exactly how the Hokies have to maintain a delicate balance between aggressive pursuit and gap responsibility in order to be effective. See Tim Tebow (or Pat White at WVU.) Thanks. Looking forward to future articles. In obvious passing situations, the Hokies would shift to a base 4-3-4 look by dropping the Whip as the second safety. a !1AQa"q2B#$Rb34rC%Scs5&DTdEt6UeuF'Vfv7GWgw(8HXhx )9IYiy If he went out, Rover has him. While the nose sometimes gets unblocked and can get upfield, more often than not he will make contact with the guard and tackle. That left situations where Motu was one on one with a big athletic TE going down the seam. I'm sure our coaches cite James Anderson who transitioned from Whip to NFL LB, and Jason Worilds who played DE at Tech and was drafted as an OLB for the Steelers. It really is an outlier as far as defenses, as much as Paul Johnson's wishbone is on offense. Boise and Stanford both targeted the safeties. Ideally, the Stud end will be 2 yards deep into the backfield. They have to get Maddy, Marshall, and McCray in there to dominate rather than having read and react play from Wilson and Collins (at tackle.). Bud Foster called this scheme his "attack defense" but the base alignments were 8 man front's following the model of the famed Buddy Ryan 46 defense used by the Bears and Eagles in the 80's. TechSideline.com (a.k.a. That's probably the reason we lost Korren Kirven. When Fuller took over whip, it seemed like that balance flipped, with the Whip finishing on more blitzes and the Mike not filling up the pass-rush stat column as much. To counter these offensive trends, Bud Foster made some adjustments to the base defense after the 2003 season. Nekos was pretty average size for a Hokie DE (McCray is the biggest it seems like we have had since Chris Ellis), but neither Brown nor Graves fit the new prototype of NFL type 6'6 265 DE's and 6'4 310 3-4 DE's or 4-3 DT's that we see in the SEC. Its a different approach from VKs 4-2-5, which dropped one SS into the box, but essentially a 4-2-5 plays like a 4-4 front against any pro-style 2-TE/1-2 back offense. We were tiny on D in 2010. So, it's not surprising that the man's personality matches his philosophy when it comes to dual reads in offensive football. Kudos to Foster and Co. for making the adjustments. The most common is a walked out position on weakside slots, but he can also align deeper at 3x5 or almost as deep as the FS. With those 3-4 wide formations, they could isolate a quick, speedy receiver in man coverage against Techs Backer and Rover to the strong side of the formation. The primary reason why more teams dont try to run this type of scheme is because of the inability to find the two swing players however, and you need them to play against spread teams. The defense was predicated on putting 8 men in the box, and bringing a wide variety of unique blitzes to confuse and outman the offensive line, while in the secondary attempting to hide coverages and trick the defense into throwing into their quick blitz read, where a Hokie defensive back sat waiting to take the ball the other way. 5yltM;6#D"A.+|F'g"##PBG Wi+5~ljx3!_YJ8a7p;[Bx$60FF8x\f@-. '+,,-/4443.4444444444 By handing off in this way, the defenders do not tip the coverage. Id call both of them pseudo-Cover 3. An example are the Virginia Tech teams of Frank Beamer and Justin Fuente, with Bud Foster serving as defensive coordinator under both. Period. When Frank Beamer coached under Bobby Ross, they ran the Wide Tackle 6, and he took that with him to VT. There are a number of factors that the coaches consider when setting the defense from play to play. In a traditional one gap 4-3 defense, each player in the front seven has the gap in front of them with few exceptions, with examples being a variety of stunts and run blitzes that are run in small proportion to the base calls. I don't have the time to cover them all, but this is a pressure-based defense. This is absolutely an attacking defense where every player is expected to #1 maintain leverage/control their gap responsibility and #2 attack attack attack the ball carrier. Guys like Acree don't fit, and I do not think for a second that the "four defensive end" alignment that we heard about in the spring will be used at any time other than on passing down and distance plays.Guys like Zach McCray and JR Collins, while big enough to play DT in a pinch, are too long to really be effective on those interior stunts (that is one of the reasons that Nick Acree was never a favorite of Charley Wiles.). Even the best (Brown- moved to LB, Worilds- moved to LB, Tapp- non-descript backup, Engleberger-bust, Moore- bust, Price- nada) didn't make an impact. All Hokie, All the Time. From this base set, the Hokies can play any number of man and zone coverages while still getting to an 8-man front on any play by rotating the Rover up closer to the line of scrimmage just prior to the snap. Hell Charley Wiles even stated that one thing he was challenging Antoine Hopkins on last August was making plays out of his alignment, i.e. Also when the offense sets into Trips, you're not able to play a true C4. a !1AQa"q2B#$Rb34rC%Scs5&DTdEt6UeuF'Vfv7GWgw(8HXhx )9IYiy -Bud Foster. What does that mean? The pre-snap look is quite often Cover 4 because of this. )jlOkD0 Nzlk}nGr(eancz#pC)vg`gd>fX&qb' h3L88ihTy%B|1ebUX9T ";*KM Here's the INT described at the end of the article. In the seasons that he had great talent, they didn't blitz and stunt as much (the 06 and 07 Hokie defensive highlight films feature much more base defense against the run.). pretty heavy on stunts and exchanges between the DL and LBs, Clemson Basketball Travels to NC State with Last Hope of NCAA Berth on the Line, Clemson Softball roars to fast start and high rankings. However, what VT does is very different from TCU and here well showcase the fronts and coverages VT likes the most. Worilds was moved to OLB and by the accounts of Steelers insiders, has struggled with the transition to a 3-4 look. He started 79 games over an 8 year career. You get what you get with Bud Foster, there isn't much grey area in his persona. I love the white helmet with the stripe and white facemask. So opposing coaches will tell a kid he'll have a better shot of making it to the NFL if he plays in a "NFL-style" 4-3. In a robber coverage, the safeties actually come forward at the snap while the corners bail out to a deep third. The Mike will likely be unblocked, but the running back should flow directly to him, so the Mike essentially has responsibility for the 1 gap. The Hopkins brothers, Maddy, and looking back at Barry Booker, Jonathan Lewis, and others all sort of fit that mold. I was getting confused reading the comments and didn't see they were from 5 years and 12 months ago. Darryl Tapp has been a career backup. The Stanford tight ends (who were all NFL caliber blocking tight ends) were then matched up with the weakest member of the Hokie front seven, in this case, Jeron Gouveia-Winslow. Learn how to identity the Bear and understand how it accomplishes its goal. Youll see how they get away with that in coverage later. I think they were 6'2 or so and 270-280 lbs. Hosley was excellent enough to execute the design up there with the very best ball hawk the Hokies have had. Antone Exum is moving forward at the snap, and both Exum and Hosley end up making the tackle along with Luther Maddy. Mike: The Mike backer (Jack Tyler) lines up directly over the center, and blitzes against the flow of the play to fly through the 1-3 gap. Gap fit means when the defensive player hits the assigned gap, he must hold that gap maintaining the proper leverage in order to get off a block and make a tackle. . What about that sign board with numbers like 21 or 11? Playing more of the defense it ran under former coordinator Bud Foster, the unit turned in a markedly better performance against the high-powered Hurricanes in Saturday's 25-24 loss. The wide tackle six and the gap defense were used by Foster specifically because they didn't have the athletes to play SEC style, line up our best athletes against yours, and beat you football. Content and Financially Support the Key play [ Bx $ 60FF8x\f @ - there and take away... 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