Coaching An Aggressive Eight Man Front Defense

A thorough examination of how to use an aggressive eight- man front defense. Chapters include: personnel: utilising your assets, stopping the run: choking the life out of your opponent, defending the pass, attacking the option, goal line and short-yardage defense, the stunt package, the adjustment package, and practicing aggressive eight- man front defense. Contains over 100 diagrams and illustrations.

Winning strategies from 90 top football coaches in the nation comprise this collection of knowledge and insights from many of the best defensive minds of the game. Illustrations.

High school defenses face very different offensive attacks week in and week out. The challenge is not changing your defense every week in order to defend pass-happy formations and smashmouth running attacks. The answer is to combine the strengths of a 4-man front with the PASS strengths of two safety coverages, that can be ran with the players walking the high school hallway. And due to low football IQ and limited film study time, the high school defense must be easy to learn. The strength of the 4-2-5 is the conversion of traditional OLBs to SAFETIES because you have 5 DBs to adjust to all the formation and motion changes in today's high school football. HEAD UP ALIGNMENTS: by a 0-tech NG and a 4-tech DT who slants weak, putts them in the same position as traditional 1 and 3-techniques once the ball is snapped. Blockers don't know which gap they are going to slant in, easy transition from 4 man to 3 man front, and uncovered guards give clean run/pass reads. DIVORCED FRONT and SPLIT FIELD: separates run & pass strengths allowing multiple looks while being simple to learn. Splitting formations in half reduces every offensive formation to 8 alignments. Split Field narrows teaching 4 coverages vs only 8 alignments and follows the "+1" rule. EVERY DAY DRILLS (EDDs): for every position. RUN FIT DEFENSE: forces the RB into a narrow "alley" outnumbered him 3 to 1. Everyone's job remains the same in both the 3-4 & 4-2 fronts. ILB read uncovered guards for clean reads and aggressive reactions. DL keeps the offensive lineman off the linebackers. Secondary provides the force, alley, and contain players.GAME PLANNING and SCOUTINGEDITABLE DROP BOX FILESEditable playsheets, wristbands, scouting reports, practice schedules drills, and Powerpoints.

This book features everything that you need to know to install the 3-5 Defense in writing, as well as 14 videos (25 minutes) of Coach Fazio on the whiteboard talking through things like: how to handle empty formations, ways to battle the RPO game, the pursuit drill they use, what to do against trips, and more! (Videos will be available through a QR Code.) Also includes are videos of game cut up! Yes, this book has 41 videos total! Some of the chapters are: Core Values, Base Alignment, Blitz Package, Coverage Package, chapters about each of the positions, and everything else you need to understand this 3-5 system. Coach Vinny Fazio (follow him on Twitter), a veteran football coach from Southern California, has been running the 3-5 Defense since he was a collegiate linebacker in 2000. His father, Skip, was the Defensive Coordinator at Claremont-Mudd, an NCAA D3 program in Southern California. The Stags were 13-5 in Coach Fazio's two years running the defense, their best two year stretch in 20 years. Skip took over as the Defensive Coordinator at the University of Redlands (Redlands, CA) in 2005 and son Vince joined him in 2006. The year before Skip took over (2004), the Bulldogs finished dead last in the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) in Total Defense and sixth out of seven in Scoring Defense. In 2005, Redlands finished third in the conference in Total Defense. In 2006 and 2007 they finished first in the conference in Total Defense; from sixth to first in just two seasons; thanks to the 3-5 Defense. In 2010, Coach Fazio took the 3-5 to the high school game as the Defensive Coordinator at Carter High School (Rialto, CA). The results? Carter cut points allowed from just over 30 points per game to 10.2, and won the school's very first League Championship! He also won a League Championship at Eisenhower, based on a staunch defense that led that way.

By using this innovative multiple-alignment, eight-man defence, American football coaches can outplay and outsmart even the toughest opponents. It allows a team to react quickly to various offensive formations, strengths, situations, and tendencies.

A collection of 70 individual and team defensive drills to improve players' performance.

This is the story of perhaps the greatest University of Washington Husky football team ever—and arguably, one of the top college football teams of all time. The 1991 Huskies, helmed by legendary coach Don James, chalked up a 12-0 record and won the Rose Bowl. They outscored opponents by an average of 31 points per game and the team included no less than 25 future NFL players. Alongside the Miami Hurricanes, the Huskies were recognized as national cochampions. How did a team built on contradictions—with an old-school coach, noted for his traditional approach, and a team of notably rambunctious players—make it work? Drawing on dozens of new interviews with athletes, coaching staff, and more, Seattle sports journalist Mike Gastineau tells a lively story of the unexpected twists of an epic season. Packed with never-before-told stories, his research offers new insider perspectives on iconic plays, outsized personalities, and an unusual set of team dynamics that led to one perfect season.

Sixkiller, a former University of Washington quarterback, recounts high and low moments from Huskie history.