For info on Olivet Nazarene Football: www.onutigers.com/sport/0/16.php Greg Youngblood, Defensive Coordinator at Olivet Nazarene University in Bourbonnais, IL dives into their run fits in their 4-2-5 system.
Coach, great video. Love the concepts and terminology you use here, very similar to us as a 3-4 over firezone team. Ourmain difference is we take a 6 who plays a box technique who we try to always play to the read side. I am interested in your concepts on where you're calling the strength here. I see an under alignment set to the sniffer but in the power you're running more of an over. Would to set the front based on field, tendency, backfield alignment? For us we set our over to a flat back expected our end to box q on read and force them to run power against the 3 or if they run away, a spilling end as you've drawn up. We'll also mix in some Slant exchange, long stick the nose to the wk b to create an under front off the snap. My basic question is how do you set your front initially? And do you have any mix up calls for team who run buck and log your spill players?
Coach Youngblood, I teach Middle School football and we usually run into double tights (two tight ends). How much would my alignment change from your base alignment?
Your base alignment wouldn’t change your defense would. That’s the problem with youth football. Coaches see what CFB coaches are running and want to run the same thing even if it doesn’t make sense. The 5 in 4-2-5 refers to the 5 DB’s on the field. You wouldn’t want 5 db’s on the field against lots of 2 TE sets. The 4-2-5 was designed to combat spread offenses, RPO’s, etc. if you’re seeing 2 TE sets you’re probably seeing fullbacks as well and they’re running power, counter, and iso as their bread and butter. You’d be way better off in a 4-4 defense with 2 more LBs in the game. If you insist on running a 4-2-5 what you would need to do is go 1 high safety and cover the TE’s.
@@lukebooch3274 Awesome explanation sir, im in Tx an am DC for my middle school team. We run a 4-2-5 but also revert to a 4-4 scheme if they try to play bully ball. Even though it's middle school we see a VERY heavy dose of Spread & RPO's.
