How to Read a Defense: Basics of Defensive Fronts 

Thanks for the love! Trying to get better and learn from my mistakes.

Exactly! Been screaming this for a minute

Oh man there's endless possibilities. Especially when you start factoring how the coverages interact with the fronts. One of the main reasons linebacker is such a difficult position. My next video is dedicated on FSUs defense from last year and addressing those issues going into this season

@@XsandNoles Looking forward to it… especially seeing if you address the differences in production between the first half and second half of the season, the improvement and increased depth of our LB corps., how a better back seven might slightly offset the loss of production on the D line (or perhaps how less pressure might make the secondary look less competent), and finally how a D that was trending up over the back-half of 2021 can build on that improvement in 2022. Thanks for the great content!

Thanks! Trying to pare them down and make the densest video of information out there

Glad I can help!

Also how much different the 4-2-5 worked when we had Jammie and Kevin Knowles (both DB bodies) playing Sam instead of Gainer (DE body?)

@@XsandNoles it was alot different. If Fuller uses Kevin Jamie and Amari. In those positions we will be able to dominate

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Grabbed some clips from your boys. Fox is much nicer to work with than the mouse haha

@@XsandNoles amen to that lol

That would be tons of fun

Haha just a little off of 100k. Maybe next week

@@XsandNoles LOL 😆 it's coming bro keep grinding your growing 💪 every post

Haha thanks! I feel they allow me to brush up on stuff and hopefully educates people for better future conversations

Thanks! I have a channel filled with videos like this! Check them out!

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Mostly to change looks. Maybe they think they can mess with a defenses protections. The offense has to game plan and know this is coming. Maybe simplify protections. Late shifts are hard to pull off but they're equally hard to prepare for

@@XsandNoles I wasn't clear in my post. I meant a video about the cat and mouse game played by the O and D. Thank you

Old tricks? Like slipping in general football stuff?

@@XsandNoles like hitting them with the fundamentals lol

Yeah you bring up a good point and one I wanted to get into more in this video. Let's say there's 5 linemen. That's 6 gaps and 6 defenders (1 for each lineman and 1 for the ball handler-lets pretend it's the rb). That leaves 5 people remaining for 4 eligible receivers and the QB. That means straight man coverage all game with one safety who has to be on the lookout for the QB to run. So defenses had to get more complex so they didn't have to sit in man coverage with no help. So they created linebackers. Linebackers are by definition hybrid defenders. They play the run and the pass. So now you can move them around to make sure you have an extra guy where it's needed, when it's needed. Football is a physical sport but it's not a simple one. Hat on hat sounds good in principle but unless you have 11 who are all better than their 11 it's probably not the best way to run things! Thanks for the comment!

@@XsandNoles point taken

Tbh my sources have dried up a bit

That's definitely a thing. Makes it more difficult to be gap sound but it's definitely an interesting wrinkle to throw in!

Not necessarily. If the defense plays their overhang linebacker (what Kevin called the 'Jack') close to the LOS, then it's still going to be difficult to get off the ball. I do see your point though; if a team runs a tite front and the J is slow to diagnose, there could be a favorable matchup

Yeah and you'll see teams try to pin the 4i and run counter. I would be tempted to even say counter is becoming more and more common in cfb partially because of this. 4i was a response to inside zone. No defense is perfect and so you take away what the offense does best and hope they can't do other things well.

@@XsandNoles Lincoln Riley has made his living running regular counter and bash at OU and now at USC against the tite look. Good point