Also when the offense sets into Trips, you're not able to play a true C4. )jlOkD0 Nzlk}nGr(eancz#pC)vg`gd>fX&qb' h3L88ihTy%B|1ebUX9T ";*KM Instead, the coverage responsibility for that motioning receiver will be handed off to a defender already aligned on the other side of the field. How many Hokies have become elite corners in the NFL? Last year's defense was an incredible patchwork of adjustments, alignments, schemes and calls designed to hide our defense's weaknesses and it worked in 11/13 games. The idea is the front 6 align based on front alignment rules. Even if they win, guys like Hopkins and Collins were just not the same after the GT game last year. If you have any questions, I will be sure to answer to answer them in the comments. I remember the first half of the Stanford OB and watching one of Stanford's 300 lb guards kick out and just flatten Eddie Whitley. Free Safety: Free safety starts in a deep third lined up 12 yards off the ball directly behind the mike. And, you are also correct about Taylor. Antone Exum is moving forward at the snap, and both Exum and Hosley end up making the tackle along with Luther Maddy. Lets go through the sequence that takes place in the 20-30 seconds between the end of one play and the next snap. One of Techs defensive coaches in the booth communicates the ball position, down/distance and personnel group to the coaches on the sideline. Note that with no receivers split to the boundary, the Rover will rotate up to the line of scrimmage and align as a linebacker on the boundary side. A retired San Jose police officer was convicted Friday of committing more than $1 million in insurance fraud and $18 million in money laundering after exploiting workers at a private security . Because of the gap fit responsibility, a tremendous amount of pressure exists for the whip and the safeties to be sure tacklers anytime the ball carrier penetrates the line. James Anderson is the only Hokie alumni who is a starter in the front 7 of an NFL team. The architect of Tech's famed Lunch Pail Defense, Foster was the longest continually tenured FBS assistant coach at the same school at the time of his retirement in 2019. I would argue we had bad match-ups of speed vs. speed. The wide variety of stunts are designed to make backs read holes that are not there, causing them to run right into the mike or backer who have moved across the formation to meet the back in the hole. Take the shortest route to the ball and arrive in bad humor. Hop, Bruce, and JGW) and as possibly causing fatigue later in the year if the guys aren't in shape? I hope they can return to dominance. Foster's defense is always going to be well-coached, and being well-coached puts players where they need to be, but you still need some talent to beat better OLs even if the defenders are where. It is actually not a 4-3 base, as its introduced on your TV sets, but is a 4-4 front that has morphed into using 4-3 personnel. Clear as mud right? They are looking at the QB and reading his actions without letting the #1 outside WR get past. When he isn't rushing for 2000 yards next year, Martin Scales will be the Hokies 3rd down pass rusher and get 10 sacks. The coaches helped by putting him in positions where he could be successful. The DB's align based on secondary alignment rules. I have had some great question both here and on twitter about some of the nuances of the defense. In the 4-3-4 base set, the Rover aligns as a defensive back, specifically as one of the two safeties. Virginia Tech's defense is in good hands with Bud Foster at the controls Skip to main . Meanwhile, Dwayne Allen would come BEHIND the line against the grain of the play and pop out the weak side. Size, strength, and explosiveness were huge factors in that variance. Next Up: All of those confusing pass coverages. . Mr. Hokie Cody Grimm was moved to the secondary (which is funny given that pass coverage was his greatest weakness as a Hokie.) The singular thing that can derail their run defense is getting chewed up physically against Georgia Tech. When they play 46 front, its mostly man/man, because its a pressure front like the Under we use. 1) I have seen a ton of schemes and I can't remember one that repeatedly asks the defensive tackles to stunt across multiple gaps and still maintain gap fits. His initial spot is 3x5 off the TE, reading the #2 receiver. So, they would use multiple tight ends to the strong side, then motion one of those tight ends back to the whip side. Prior to 2004, the alignment of the linebackers and safeties was based more on the strong side / weak side of the offensive formation. We play three different packages: G, T u f f and FD/ST-G. Our G package is our base defense. H332U(W5RR-T56 )onl ${* In combination, these adjustments resulted in more big plays against the Tech defense, both in the running game as well as the passing game. I saw that and knew we were in trouble. Tech makes that difficult because there is a hand off of responsibilities as the offense shifts or motions out from one passing strength to another. The Stanford tight ends (who were all NFL caliber blocking tight ends) were then matched up with the weakest member of the Hokie front seven, in this case, Jeron Gouveia-Winslow. What is a Cover-2 and how does it differ from a Cover-3? Billy Hite. "I'm too drunk to taste this chicken" - Colonel Sanders via Ricky Bobby, I wish I could give you more legs. Using a series of hand signals, Bud Foster communicates the defensive call (set, blitz call, passing strength, coverage, etc) to the players on the field. The Rover was a strong side outside linebacker in the 8-man front that would slide out as an additional corner / defensive back against 3-4 wide receiver formations. Based on what you said, don't the DL's all "tie" up the lines in both Bud scheme and the traditional pro-scheme? against Stanford in the OB? The primary adjustments were to go to a base 2-high safety set (as discussed earlier), with the Whip up as a linebacker full time and the Rover back as a safety in most alignments. The defensive call in combination with the personnel group establishes the specific pass coverage responsibilities for the defense. While the 8 man front may be gone, the blitz pressures and coverages remain imbedded in today's Hokie D. The "Field Strong" basically is a 4 man defensive line, two middle linebackers, and the whip linebacker playing outside as a hybrid linebacker/safety almost exclusively to the boundary side of the field. The formation is twins wide, so the passing strength is heavy to the wide side of the field. This book features Bud Foster, Defensive Coordinator at Virginia Tech; Chris Ash, Co-Defensive Coordinator, Ohio State; Mickey Matthews, former Head Coach at James . * 21+ (19+ CA-ONT) (18+ NH/WY). VTs version of defense is a morphed descendent of what the Washington Huskies ran in the 80s and early 90s when their defense dominated the Pacific coast under DC Jim Lambright. Instead he will look to plant and dive straight ahead for the inside of the 6 gap or the 4 gap, or he will plant and cut back to the center gap. With those 3-4 wide formations, they could isolate a quick, speedy receiver in man coverage against Techs Backer and Rover to the strong side of the formation. The Corners cheat deeper in this coverage at 7-9 yds, so they can rarely show Press man pre-snap when 2-Robber is the call. You can't develop an NFL caliber lineman. Morris, who was a first time starter, had thrown quick 5-7 yard hooks against the Hokie blitz all day. As covered in Part 1, the Tech defense aligns based on ball position relative to the hash marks. That left situations where Motu was one on one with a big athletic TE going down the seam. Nose Tackle: The Nose (Luther Maddy): The nose will line up as a 1 technique, on the inside eye of the play-side guard. Have no idea how that played into Foster's defense, but he has played and started taller more slender DTs. The zone run requires each offensive lineman to block the gap to the playside, moving along the line of scrimmage and maintaining contact for as long as possible with the first defender that crosses their face. Note: This is the second installment of a three part series about Virginia Techs nationally renowned defense. The offense makes the next move by setting their personnel group for this example, they have just removed one of their two running backs and sent in a second tight end. Instead, Collins played read and react football and was driven off the ball often, which is to be expected when he is doubled and cut block all night. Instead of taking on offensive linemen as a run stuffing linebacker, he was used more to play containment or run blitz off the edge. He's had only two top-10 defenses this decade, but the Hokies are never weak on his side of the ball . Join the community. Sometimes shifts and motion will force the defense to tip its hand. Also, because of the rather shorter depth of the Safeties, you can attack their run reads directly with a vertical route directly at them, like a Post or Go route up the seam. Worilds was moved to OLB and by the accounts of Steelers insiders, has struggled with the transition to a 3-4 look. In certain situations, without changing the personnel, the Hokies will play an 8-man front, with four defensive linemen, four linebackers, and three defensive backs (4-4-3 alignment). Former Federal Fugitive Pleads Guilty in California to Massive Fraud and Identity Theft Scheme in Connection with Nationwide Foreclosure Scam Defendant Collected More Than $1.2 Million from More Than 800 Distressed Homeowners . More to come in my next post. '+,,-/4443.4444444444 Bud Foster's defense held the Tigers to 186 yards of total offense in a 24-7 route. "I think one of the biggest reasons actually was Steeles defense. While he misses the tackle, he allows enough time for the other players to secure their gap and then pursue to tackle the UVA tailback for a marginal gain. The wide side is called the field and the short side is called the boundary. #Scales4Heisman. The Whip responsibilities seem to change as much as the skillsets of the players in the position. I played in the pre-2004 VT defense in HS at Westfield which was also a popular defense with Oakton/Robinson and I guess now South County which has Bendorf. MAN. The Hokies showed a blitz up front, and Jayron showed a cover 3 look by bailing out and back pedaling before the snap. I think that with their recruiting getting better, Foster may change. His number was 46. h_k@vJbR So, I don't think having our DL being smallish gives us a good advantage to counter the GT offense (a la moving our DE in as a DT and then replacing the DE with T. Wilson), since Miami has prototypical NFL DT's and absolutely mauled them at the LOS. If those guys don't need much safety help, then the corners can take chances, bait QB's and mix in robber coverages to get turnovers. As mentioned earlier, that led to man-to-man match-ups of a linebacker or Rover against that third and fourth wide receiver. If the ball is on the hashmark, Rover goes Field side, WHIP to the boundary. The "G" front is the base front, but here I have not adjusted to the formation. The biggest difference is how wildly the defensive responsibilities differ between the gap defense. -- French. If one DL gets blown out of the hole, it creates problems for every other defender. The whistle blows, the players un-pile and the cycle starts again. Most teams go play side or bootleg with play action, but Clemson (in old 1930's single-wing style) would have the Tajh fake, then continue to waggle a step playside. Spoilers). For this example, here is a pre-snap diagram of a likely defensive set against a 12 personnel group (one RB, two TEs, two WRs). Next week, we will examine some of the basic blitz packages that the Hokies use for passing down and distance situations. Finally, the ball is snapped and the play runs to completion, most likely in five seconds or less. The Hopkins brothers, Maddy, and looking back at Barry Booker, Jonathan Lewis, and others all sort of fit that mold. in the long run, if the giants dline continues to dominant with "defensive ends", i think it can be used to pitch to good dlineman. Attack Defense Bud Foster Defensive Coordinator Virginia Polytechnic Institute Blacksburg, Va. Jim Cavanaugh Outside Linebackers Lou West Secondary Charlie Wiles Defensive Line Diagram 2 What's considered non-radical? Ive said it before but Im super serious this timethis is a must win game for Clemsons NCAA tournament resume. So, every player has to know exactly where to be, exactly what to do, and exactly where to go before running with reckless abandon into a full speed collision. The Hokies used a base 8-man front the majority of the time. I'm pretty sure, if VT could land Hand or Brown, Foster would develop them into 1st Rd D-linemen, even in a gap fitting scheme. TechSideline.com (a.k.a. In an obvious passing down. Against an 8-man front, it was difficult for offenses to establish the run because there was generally one defender unaccounted for in the blocking scheme. Actually Clemson's D is not going to be all that different than what it was last year except that Venable is simplifying it without all the checks and stuff. Today, a look at some of the pass rush and blitz packages utilized in Bud Foster's Gap Defense As discussed in "A Look Back at the Hokie Wide Tackle Six Defense" , Virginia Tech rose to defensive dominance running an 8-man front which allowed the Hokies to blitz from multiple angles. Stopping the run is one of the basic tenants of the defensive scheme. Most of the comments were centered on the adjustments to the Whip and Rover positions, so I wanted to revisit that and clarify some points in those areas. Going into last season, there was legitimate concern about Brenden Hill playing a position that had become more defined as a linebacker, but he proved that a player of his physical abilities could be productive as a Whip as well if he handled his assignments correctly. Boise and Stanford both targeted the safeties. Urban Meyer fell behind LSU and Alabama in recruiting, and magically his health is at risk and he gets out. I remember seeing our defensive philosophy torched about ten years ago. He must maintain gap control on the 6 gap and not allow the running back to get outside his outside shoulder. How does pressure relate to coverage? The tackle will cross the face of the guard and the center, and fill the 2 gap, originally vacated by the Nose. The scheme will give about 3,000 families in poverty $1,000 a month for a year, and there are no . Drawing on the scheme's nickel roots gives 4-2-5 teams the ability to run a divorced front concept. The number of wide receivers is derived from the combination of those two numbers. In the old 4-4, the rover was always opposite to the whip. d88$FQ &~g?Waj }4;{S=Gg``YoF2a2XCTH#?:]=e1sp=$3_ S??oB/r~u6n?o'tm{ iu e*g[3mcXX_ endstream endobj 7 0 obj 859 endobj 12 0 obj << /Length 13 0 R /Filter /FlateDecode >> stream Never forget Aaron Rodgers literally laughing at our defense. In-Depth Analysis of the Hokies' Bear Defense. The Rover aligns to the passing strength pre-snap, so hell adjust to the slot WRs most of the time. As for NFL caliber lineman. Depending on the formation, Rover can pick up the #1 receiver short and the FS comes down on the slot, with the CB still in deep half-field coverage behind.Whip aligns himself several ways, so you need a good football player here. It defintely helps to have depth regardless of the scheme, but depth and ability in the scheme only make it better. Either way we'll have 3 starting quality DT. Hell Charley Wiles even stated that one thing he was challenging Antoine Hopkins on last August was making plays out of his alignment, i.e. When Foster developed the concept for the Gap Defense, he looked to solve two problems. They are not supposed to be playmakers (except in the pass rush) but they have to be adept at maintaining leverage while stunting. The defensive front called "Bear" is part of the 46 defense, but they are separable things. So, it's not surprising that the man's personality matches his philosophy when it comes to dual reads in offensive football. Before I wrap up this part of the series, I want to get back to the adjustments made after the 2003 season. The mike linebacker has no pass coverage responsibility in most of the Hokie defenses. As for tight ends, teams that play tight ends usually end up with the rover or free safety covering them. In passing situations, the Hokies use more defensive backs than the old days, but Foster's mentality hasn't changed. Maddy is going to have to really step it up to be the starter. The Tigers first-half offensive struggles were too much to overcome in a 64-57 loss. VT couldn't stop the run against Stanford. The free safety is responsible for coverage adjustments and making sure that everyone is lined up properly. couple that with (hopefully) some VERY strong dline recruits panning out, and landing dhand and/or brown next year, and it seems as if our defense is only going to get better and better, French-- in your opinion what position in the front 7 is the most important for a successful tech D. Also fwiw if tyler plays every play like those 2 video plays above its going to be hard to keep him off the field especially against gt. Foster's approach is more than just an alignment, as the long-time play-caller in Blacksburg has implemented his scheme across his entire unit, not just up front. He's as genuine as they come. Spoilers). 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