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I love the idea of playing the Mike (a plug linebacker) to the side of an open B-Gap. Putting the 3 Tech to the side of the Rush End also lets you play a smaller/quicker Rush End in my opinion because he can be a box player instead of a wrong-arm spiller
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Out of curiosity what is your purpose for having the Nose and 5 tech to the call side? Do you do this based on the tendencies of teams you play, or a specific philosophy you have as a defensive coach?
I think it is to give a numbers advantage in coverage. So to the strong side if you count the Mike, by going (under) to the strength they have 4 over 3 to that doubles side assuming that a back out of the backfield to that side would be the #3 receiver. To the back side assuming the other back releases then you have 3 over 2. Where as doing it conventional you match up but you don't have the extra guy.
We do the same thing with our front and the groups always travel together. (Although, we always set the defense to the wide side, SPUR and his group to wide side. We can call "Kick" by the Mike L.B.er and only the middle four would move opposite and change gap responsibilities depending if we want the 3 tech to the back or away from back. Numbers (receivers) to the boundary, we would change coverages. Will Backer would have to wall number 3 on trips
another question I have is having personal constantly flipping to the strong side, how well does that go against hurry up offenses 🤔 Thinking out loud, I'd probably have the striker go to field side if the formation is 12 and balanced, or to the slot/ double TE side.The philosophy at LB almost reminds me of some 34 schemes where one inside LB is a big body LB and the second is a smaller, sideline to sideline type of player. I'm wanting to get into coaching and I've been looking at the 4-2-5 defense but also wanting to mix in some 3-4 concepts as well. a hybrid defense if you will. kinda like the Midshipmen defense.
Coach Albaugh I thought I was going crazy for a sec. Nice pair of videos though, 42 is one of two defenses I prefer to run. Anymore from him coming up or just the two?
