How Brandon Staley is changing the future of defensive football 

this video aged so poorly

5:14 "How is the Rams defense so good against the run despite running 2 high safety ? Step 1: have Aaron Donald on your roster

Want to do an update on how he seems to be the only problem the chargers have.

I know absolutely nothing about football besides just watching the games, but your videos are some of the most interesting I've seen on explaining the game.

Two years later and the Chargers have one of the worst defenses in the NFL.

Todd Bowles runs something similar. He uses what is almost a 5-2 defense. Instead of gap and a half, he often lets the NT play 2 gap while everyone else plays 1. The nose, VIta Vea, is so strong that he can generate pass rush while playing a 2 gap nose tackle. Since the OL can't climb to engage the linebackers, the 2 ultra speedy Bucs ILB's can run and make plays, coming in tied for second in 2020 in tackles for loss. If Vita Vea didn't miss most of the year, they may well have had the top defense. He is the best player on that defense. The dude is terrifying and so few people know who he is.

This is the single greatest video I’ve ever seen. Truly a revolutionary that surpasses the physical plane of existence. I just don’t know what we could have done without him. I mean, imagine all the terrible wins we could have gotten if someone else that was actually qualified ran this team. It’s too tragic to think about

Ok but how good is the scheme without Aaron Donald eating up double and triple teams every play? One player effectively becoming 2 allows the DC to use that freed player in coverage

This video hasn't aged well!😂😂😂

The guy had prime Aaron Donald & prime Jalen Ramsey... PERIOD! He could run ANY D & still dominate

Much respect to a real student of the game. Keep up the amazing content.

Chip Kelly's influence on the game is so underrated.

Certainly helps having the best DT and CB in the game.....

Note: the "Seattle scheme" was actually created in Tampa bay by gus Bradley, who transported it to seattle in 09, when he became d coordinator there. Not Pete Carroll.

Amazing contact as always. Keep up the good work, you deserve to be a full-time RU-vidr. I always learn some thing when I watch one of your productions, but it’s never too much information in one sitting. And it’s never overly complicated. You do a tremendous job

I was like wtf after the Staley hire. I wanted Dabol or Beienemy from KC. After listening to him multiple times and what people said about him including Ramsey showering him with respect I let my gaurd down. Ramsey respects very few people and always gives a honest assessment of what he thinks about someone. And all I kept hearing was well you dont have Donald or Ramsey to so the same thing the Rams did when he made them the 1# defense. I expect a high caliber defense but, not 1# I just want him to be able to squeeze every ounce of talent out of this current roster. If his scheme truly is what people say then it only gets me more excited. Gonna be a good first test against Dallas top WR core.

I haven’t played football since high school but I vaguely remember going over schemes and that was my favorite part about the game..studying the opponent and coming up with ways to beat them

I love the chess match of football and watch hours of coaching videos. This is one of the best X&O videos I’ve seen. Well done!

Best video I’ve seen in a while. You did a great job explaining this defense and I appreciate you helping us all understand football better. I’m subscribing

Such good content, really appreciate how long you must had to work to put something like this together. Great Work!!!

This video is awesome. Thanks for putting it together. Helped me finally put together all the schematic implications of using the tite front

This video was amazing! Broke it down clear and simple and made it really easy to understand. I’ve heard of some of these concepts a million times, but they’re often glossed over. It was really nice to have them actually explained. Subscribed!

This aged well

I enjoy watching both game and player highlights to make player projections for fantasy and to stay abreast about football and trends. You’re a god send and your football knowledge is immaculate and I love how you explain it, in a way that it’s so digestible. - notifications on!

I play football and am obsessed with your videos, amazing job explaining. giving me so much more football knowledge

your style of video is one of the most useful football video out there. keep going billy. you are doing a vere good job.

Billy, This is very well done. Cuts to sound. Great job.

Awesome video. I can’t tell you how many articles I read and podcast I listened to in order to get a good grasp of Staley’s Rams defense and you brilliantly summed up most of it here in 20min video. Props man.

Great content man. You're gonna blow up I guarantee it. Quality stuff

The more i see him talk and interact with the players the more I love him. He's gonna be a good coach for years to come.

scheme breakdown and history of schemes is super interesting!

Great review and excellent explanation! Your depth of understanding is impressive and I definitely learned a few things from watching this video. Just subbed!

Another awesome and very informative video. Thanks for it, and keep it up.

Best football video I have seen in quite a while. Keep up the good work!

Just found your channel -- so happy to finally find a youtube channel that actually breaks down scheme and game tape. Big Chris Brown / Pat Kirwan energy. Thanks for the great content.

Watching the Fangio scheme crash and burn the past 3 years has been extremely entertaining

I was never a good player nor line men coach because of my low aptitude for the sport but watching your breakdowns makes me see that i just didn't study enough at something i wasn't good at. Thank you for your amazing work.

Fantastic video man! Super informative!

I wish espn would have break downs like this. You and jomboy makes sports interesting.

This is a brilliant breakdown! You have a new subscriber. 💪🏾

Great breakdown. So cool hearing about the Xs and Os of football.

Bro respect for such a deep analysis ✊🏽

Wowser! as my head explodes. Keep up the good work. I will understand all this with your help. Ty.

Dude, you are the man. Videos are awesome.

This is a phenomenal video. Good work.

Phenomenal video(s), terrific job man

This is just awesome stuff! Keep it up!

This is an excellent breakdown, congrats you got yourself a new sub

Awesome video! Not enough coaches are willing to break away from the normal schemes. This scheme is pretty simple yet effective. It’s amazing how simple tweaks in a scheme can make a world of a difference.

Great video man! Keep it up!

Fantastic video,man.Subscribed.

It also helps to have the best corner of the last decade and the best defensive player in history on your defense haha

Excellent breakdown, that was fantastic

Learned a lot today. Great video!

You are the most knowledgeable film Guru on defensive tape

Wish more casual fans knew about this stuff. Love it! My first time watching, thanks for the content. Instant subscriber 💪 🏈

These videos are good and for two reasons: They include insightful analysis and they concise. No babble, no prolix, no needless intensifiers, exaggerations or cliches. Solid writing, editing and delivery. The author gets to the point and expresses complex material succinctly. That's refreshing.

This video was so fascinating, I love logistics and when you were describing the type of players this defense needs it almost sounded exactly what most Hybrid 3-4's have. I'm not a technique guy like most youtubers here, be it you, Brett Kollman, or Jackson Krueger Sports. I go by size and style, and the bigger the range in size, the more hidden gems you're likely to find in drafting/free agency, imho. What I love about the Hybrid 3-4 is that it has the ability to incorporate EVERY SINGLE defensive package there is, be it a nickel and dime that can look just like a 4-3 type nickel and dime (instead of 4-2-5 it's a 2-4-5, or instead of a 4-1-6, it's a 2-3-6), or the many unique packages that already come with 3-4's, be it the classic 3-3-5, the modern 3-3-5 as I saw in this video (and what I noticed the Packers started doing in 2019), 3-2-6, 2-3-6 with 2 ILB's and not outside, 1-5-5 Psycho, and one I haven't seen yet and would love to see for the sheer madness to it, the 1-4-6. The Hybrid 3-4 can literally take ANY player and make it work, unlike a pure 3-4 needing more 3-4 type players, or a 4-3 needing 4-3 type players. The Packers are a great example of this even under Joe Barry, our OLB's are the size of a typical 4-3 DE, they're not the kind of LB's I would send back in coverage, the NT Kenny Clark isn't even 320+lbs. (I consider 320+ to be the proto typical sized NT so as to take advantage of O-linemen as much as possible, like double-triple teams), our ILB's include guys that are almost as lightweight as oldschool SS's like Kam Chancellor or Roy Williams, instead of big dudes like Brian Urlacher/Ray Lewis. It's the kind of defense you can look at and say, there are so many guys like this in college, why spend 1st round picks on a front 7/6 guy? Run stopping DT's between 285-320lbs. are so common you can literally wait until Day 3 in the draft to find a hidden gem, aside from Clark, all of our DT's are either Day 3 guys or undrafted. ILB's? Look how little value has been placed on ILB's, one of our starters was an undrafted rookie last year in Krys Barnes, at 229lbs.. Excluding Rashan Gary, our Edge Rushers are Day 2 guys or undrafted. When you consider the logistics when scouting college players, where are you more likely to find hidden gems? Not in 260lb ILB's like Urlacher, not in 285lb. Edge Rushers like Julius Peppers, and certainly not 1 of a kind DT's like JJ Watt, Aaron Donald, Suh, or dare I say the late great Reggie White? No, you gotta find the most common type of players coming out of college, and they are what I described on the current Packers team. It's all Logistics, finding the simplest route to your goal. It's the same thing you were describing on what Staley is doing, finding the simplest route to a goal in not just stopping the run, but stopping the pass, and building the team. And ftr, the way you were describing this defense, ALMOST, keyword ALMOST reminded me of the most basic play in every Madden Game ever. In the oldest Madden's it's called Man Lock, in the PS2 Madden's it's called 2 Man Under. What the play is, is SO simple. The CB's are on Man Coverage on their assigned WR's. The Safeties are in 2 deep zone coverage (not to dissimilar from that play you showed off on 14:55), it's a consistent 4 man rush no matter what package, while the LB's be it 3-4 ILB's or 4-3 LB's in general are ALL in Man Coverage, but they react to the ball and play given that LB's can blitz and cover at the same time. So imagine a modern 3-3-5 the way this video showed, using 2 Man Under, the lone ILB can either stay in coverage if there's a RB sneaking out or a big TE, or blitz if they're BOTH in a block assignment, the CB's stay on their WR's, while the Safeties obviously react to the play exactly the way you showed, all in the meantime there's a 5 man rush on the QB or RB. As a matter of fact, it's what the Saints did to Aaron Rodgers (somewhat) that utterly destroyed the Packers! The Saints simplified their defense instead of sending exotic blitz packages. They just maintained a 4 man rush and kept dropping everyone back in coverage, daring the Packers to run the football, and for some reason there was nothing A-Rod could do about it. A simple play like that can neutralize the most complex of offenses, and I find it hilariously, ironic. TL;DR, the simpler the defense, the more you frustrate opposing offenses.

Thank you Billy.

Love the oregon shoutout. I was there for it all and you hit it in the nose

Liked and subbed. This breakdown is awesome

amazing stuff you’re doing here bro. i’ve watched every video and i look forward to the next

Subbed. Loving the videos!

Fantastic video. Very well done.

This is an amazing video, thank you, I will subscribe.

I'm from Berlin Germany and American Football was growing in popularity over here since a few years. I just wanted to appreciate your effort and let you know that you've got a new subscriber and fan overseas 👌🏾

Nice work, reminded me of what I loved about film day.

That was phyucking awesome!! I thought it was a hybrid "52Double Eagle" front when I first saw it. Instead of lining the DT's over the guards in a "2 Tech", slide them out to the "4i". Can't wait to see the breakdown of how offenses will attack it with success.

Great vid as usual.

Finally some solid Xs and Os!! Earned a subscribe and bell

Billy you earned yourself a dub, insightful content my man keep it up

I played football in college and at the semi-pro level. I coached at the high school level. It's amazing how little I know about football. Love the channel.

Dude Im so happy I found your channel! Ive been looking for channela like this to improve my actual football knowledge. Notifications on!

Good to see Chargers getting covered more... we're coming back into the discussion as a contending team.

Excellent content! Subscribed.

Great job on the breakdown. Breakdown of a scheme is right in your wheelhouse.

This is one of the greatest RU-vid videos I’ve ever seen

Great video. I see a lot of Wade and Bum Phillips on there. Good job.

How are your Videos this amazing and you don't have 1M Subs? Screw the algorithm! Awesome Channel!

Thank you so much bro. I enjoy vic/Stanley philosophy on defense. And your attention to detail is excellent. Any thoughts on 3high defense?

WELL THIS VIDEO FKING AGED OVER NIGHT

yesss a new video!!

Probably the best video posted so far

Awesome breakdown. Thank you

Great video I know football but I learned a lot from this video thankyou

awesome vid!

It’s basically a bear defense without being out manned by outside zone. This has been around for years, WVU with Jeff Casteel ran it in the early 2000s. It just became popular when it began getting called the “tite” front. It was always called Steeler by them because the Steelers were doing it years ago. You did a great job explaining this and I enjoyed it. Great content.

This is totally awesome!!! A great breakdown of a defense!! I love it. Please do more🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾 maybe Nick Saban’s Alabama Defense or Chip Kelly’s Oregon Offense. Dude maybe break down how the College football game is now in the pros

Love that we got him. I hang on every word he says during interviews in ways I couldn't believe with Lynn.

That is utterly fascinating!

This didn’t age well lol

7:05 that's pretty much exactly the Steelers defense of the early 2000s with Casey Hampton, Kilmo von Oelhoffen and Aaron Smith at the line and Porter, Gildon, Bell and Farrior. The only difference I can think off is that the Smith and Oelhoffen, the Ends, would play head on on the guards and play 2 gap. Just like Hampton would do. Later Hampton would play shaded though. I was watching the Rams game this week and it looked exactly the same. Except they played 1-gap defense.

Great content, and what’s funny is the 3 down line with 4i’s is getting a lot of traction in college and below thanks to mainly Dave Aranda’s tite 3-4 and Iowa State’s 3 high safety tite 3-3.

Great analysis!!!

very well done!

Top notch breakdown

Saw this before the draft and love it. Rewatched this today, after draft and free agency are far behind us. The Chargers’ choices in draft and free agency…seems like they plan to use the 404 a lot in 2022. They have the players to rock this scheme.

Very educational.....Very informative.....thanks

Sending this to GB 🔥🔥 SB bound lol

Billy, Please do a video on the Brady vs Belichick game from this Sunday night. Belichick was doing some very interesting stuff like 7 DB personnel groups & 2 man Pass rushes dropping 9 in coverage