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If he went out, Rover has him. Spoilers). The movement ideally allows three Hokies to be unblocked, versus depending on the physical ability of the defensive line to beat each of their blocks at the point of attack. Call 1-800-GAMBLER. 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. Youll see how they get away with that in coverage later. -Bud Foster. Bud Foster keeps Virginia Tech opponents guessing with ability to adjust on defense After Virginia Tech upset No. I think they are well coached. More and more NFL coaches are blending the 4-3 and 3-4 concepts and scheme. In the nineties, many teams tried to emulate Frank Beamer and defensive coordinator Bud Foster's scheme, with its premium on defenders stacking the line to either stop the run or scare the offense into abandoning it and apologizing for having considered such a silly idea. Why are we sometimes successful (last year 2nd half) and sometimes not so successful (09 second half)? Its heavy on blitzes from those two hybrid players. For more details about the site, including a list of TechSideline.com staff, see our About page. .". Ball position refers to the position of the ball relative to the hash marks. Defensive linemen must be able to stunt and slant while maintaining leverage. He has held the job since 1996, and he came to . Bud Foster's defense held the Tigers to 186 yards of total offense in a 24-7 route. Spoilers). WHIP often creeps up because he usually gets a 1 on 1 matchup with the RB in coverage. It is even more stunning given how horridly Miami's D was against the Hokies. I still worry about the whip (watching film of the Stanford game will do that to a guy) and Maddy and Marshall have to take the next step. If you can stop the run with six, the whip or backside safety doesn't have to commit so quickly. 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. Coles scored on that long TD. Nose Tackle: The Nose (Luther Maddy): The nose will line up as a 1 technique, on the inside eye of the play-side guard. VT shifts their G front to the Field side as well into a 4-3, whether its weak or strong, which gives them 3 fronts in the base package. He does not have to be a big guy, but he does have to have a very high motor. The Whip was a weak side outside linebacker in the base 8-man front and he was a weak side safety in the 2-deep safety set (base used regularly in passing situations). Jack Tyler can't cover a rock, so CBF adjusts his schemes and defensive calls to account for that. Sounds like fun doesnt it? By keeping the tight ends and running backs in to block, offenses could buy additional time to go to their wide receivers running down the field against single, man-to-man coverage. If NFL type DT's wouldn't fit BF's scheme then what's the use of trying to recruit guys like an Andrew Brown? If the running back looks to go straight ahead, he will see the guard and tackle jammed up and look to cutback. h_k@vJbR View All Discussions French on the Bench , "Does it get any better than Thursday Night in Blacksburg?" MAN. In terms of positions, the Stud, Whip, Mike, Field Corner and Free Safety always align toward the wide side of the field. 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 Next week, we will examine some of the basic blitz packages that the Hokies use for passing down and distance situations. Simple. I had to go back and read about the defense given how I did not understand all the roles. Either way we'll have 3 starting quality DT. I foresee a TON of blitzes on 3rd and long. Again, the tackle will rarely be in position to make the tackle, but must minimally plug up the gap, causing the back to look to cut back to the 1 gap. BTW, I dont think I've ever seen a gif used as a legit educational tool and not just an lol. BLACKSBURG Bud Foster's defenses have grown accustomed to carrying Virginia Tech's offenses over the years, so an early conversation the longtime Hokies defensive coordinator had with new . Meanwhile, Dwayne Allen would come BEHIND the line against the grain of the play and pop out the weak side. Look at Florida under Urban Meyer. Hopefully Logan will have improved his accuracy to be able to make them pay for it. First, how do they maintain the aggressive variability of the Wide Tackle Six, but second, he wanted to stop the growing use of one back multiple receiver offenses from the West Coast to the Spread. If the safeties have to make a bunch of tackles (see Stanford, Miami, Boise, Clemson), then the corners are on an island and at some point, even the best corners will get beat in man coverage. To the uneducated eye, the defense features two ends, two tackles, three linebackers, two safeties, and two corners just like a traditional NFL style 4-3, but Foster turns the 4-3 concept on its ear. Justin Hamilton is in his first year as Virginia Tech's defensive coordinator after serving as safeties coach last year. The results of these adjustments speak for themselves. The talent of their front just is not what it once was. The end result of this 1st quarter play against UVA features Tyrell Wilson preventing the back from getting to the edge, the nose and tackle slant and fill their gaps, and Jack Tyler flies in on the blitz to make the play. Damn shame if you ask me. Virginia Tech's defense is in good hands with Bud Foster at the controls Skip to main . (He finished with well over 100 yards.) As for tight ends, teams that play tight ends usually end up with the rover or free safety covering them. A lot can still happen from that base pre-snap state, including shifts, motion, and checks/audibles by the offense. At that point, the players on the field know the down/distance and the front, pressure, and coverage calls. Quarterbacks, seeing the odd space develop, are often easily baited into throwing seam routes against this coverage. 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). 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. Aaron Rodgers, Kellen Moore, Andrew Luck all have great skills under pressure. Rece Davis. "That kid you're talking to right there, I think he played his nuts off! The Chargers' defense ranked last in third-down conversion percentage (49.54%), 30th in rushing yards allowed per game (138.9), 30th in points allowed per game (27.0) and 23rd in yards allowed . While the Hokies were able to win, Collins was a shell of himself until the bowl game after Georgia Tech, and I am convinced that was because he was so beat up. I broke the 4th wall of telestration. Meanwhile, the defensive linemen must be quick enough and flexible enough to slant heavily (sometimes 2 gaps) each way, which lends itself to short, stocky defensive tackles whocan get to a spot then hold their gap responsibility. If one DL gets blown out of the hole, it creates problems for every other defender. That gives up some of the flat zone coverage, so watch for more WR screens this week if they show us C4. This book features Bud Foster, Defensive Coordinator at Virginia Tech; Chris Ash, Co-Defensive Coordinator, Ohio State; Mickey Matthews, former Head Coach at James . Presented by, Click here to access all three parts of the Hokie Defense series by Raleigh Hokie. On this play against UVA, the Hokies are playing a base front. What is a zone blitz? Most would call that 6 years. Hope that VT keeps getting playing making athletic DTs that can get off blocks and penetrate in interior gaps in order to take D to next level. When they face 21/22/12 personnel, theyll set up in the G front or Bear front most of the time. In a traditional one gap 4-3 defense, each player in the front seven has the gap in front of them with few exceptions, with examples being a variety of stunts and run blitzes that are run in small proportion to the base calls. They have to get depth immediately to play deep-half coverage. The defensive call in combination with the personnel group establishes the specific pass coverage responsibilities for the defense. Inverted Cover 2 Robber is a 2-deep, 5-underneath zone coverage that uses the FS as the Robber. Virginia Tech uses both their base look (which features each lineman and linebacker having gap responsibility for the gap in front of them) or a more radical stunting approach based on the talent Foster has available. But after several seasons of getting pounded into the turf by the Tech defense, teams began to spread things out and use more 3-4 wide receiver formations to isolate certain match-ups. 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. See Tim Tebow (or Pat White at WVU.) Whip is to the passing strength, which is most often to the field but (against teams like Pitt) can be to the boundary. With two CBs outside you basically have 6 ways it can work without changing the call. Suddenly the gap is open, and the back has a nice hole. Looking forward to future articles. Upvoted. Access Exclusive Content and Financially Support The Key Play. In the diagram, Whitley (who the coaches called "the rover" last year) is lined up to the twins side, and he motions back to the middle of the field while Exum (who was the "free safety" last year) rotates up towards the line with the motion. I think that with their recruiting getting better, Foster may change. http://hamptonroads.com/2012/06/ask-another-teams-beat-writer-clemson. Wiley, Brown, Russell, Drakeford, Gray, Banks, Prioleau, Charleton, Midget, Bird, McCadam, Pile, Hall, Green, Fuller, Williams, Hamilton, Rouse, Flowers, Harris, Chancellor, Carmichael, Hosley, Fuller, Exum, Jarrett. Graves certainly was an outlier as far as his girth, along with Jim Davis, but the vast majority of VT tackles are shaped like trashcans. In his walked out spot, he is reading the backfield triangle to the #2/#3 receiver and has the flat zone weak. The alignment is a disguise, as he has no pass coverage responsibility. http://www.playbookexchange.net/playbooks/Defense/02060201-VirginiaTechAttack.pdf. When the TE switches sides, usually the Backer flips spots with MIKE to cover him. Great stuff as always French. Thanks. Clemson and Duke are really the only teams I can remember that have attacked Hokie corners and been successful. They made popular the "G" front and took the 1985 Bears 46 defensive front as a compliment, which Tech would call the "Tuff" package. So we have a basic definition for each of the eleven puzzle pieces. Clear as mud right? 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. The Hokies used a base 8-man front the majority of the time. Not every coach could do that. Some teams run a 2 gap scheme (which is much more difficult to get players for.) We will review the scheme adjustments that were made following the 2003 season and the impact they have had. A student manager signals the personnel group (12 in this example) via the sign board. I want to focus on one, what has made teams successful against the Virginia Tech run defense? Tyler is almost always coming forward at the snap except when a key has him pursuing playside. Was a great move on moving the rover back in alignment based on the offenses being seen but thought the Rover always lined up on the strong side away from the Whip but your diagram indicates them lined on the same side. I have told anyone who would listen that I didn't like having Collins moved inside, and that if they did move him inside, he needed to get upfield and disrupt the full back/QB mesh point. The 6 comes from the switches called between the LBs and the backfield. "#()%$%%! How do those pieces fit together and how do they work collectively to form one of college footballs best defenses? He was on a roll at the start of last season and his recovery is going really well. In basic terms, normal defenses feature corners playing man with safeties deep to help. First of all, they had a GREAT offensive line that was able to block at angles which cut off the stunts from Virginia Tech linebackers. As covered in Part 1, the Tech defense aligns based on ball position relative to the hash marks. Each defender essentially has the gap in front of him. As some of you may remember, Virginia Tech rose to prominence in the early 90's on the back of elite special teams, a grind-it-out conservative offense, a state of the art weight training program, and most significantly, on the back of a radical defensive approach that took recruits that nobody wanted and turned them loose like the dogs of war on opposing defenses. Because of how it is designed, it is still strong with Safeties as run-gap fillers off the edges, but because of that they are susceptible to play-action moreso than a true C2 squad. How will VT defend against teams like Stanford and other NFL caliber offenses? Exactly like Clemson this year. I'm sure Nick Saban said the very same thing to him hence his "I don't believe I could achieve my goals at VT" comment. Playing in a college system that emphasizes skillset diversity is actually a good thing. So complimenting it with the Bear front gives you the choice of going Even or Odd with a stem (pre-snap shift). A similar thing happened with the game against Miami, where LM just gashed us in the second half. It wasn't ideal. So that got me thinking: how does Bud and Co defend GT differently than a more pro style set? )jlOkD0 Nzlk}nGr(eancz#pC)vg`gd>fX&qb' h3L88ihTy%B|1ebUX9T ";*KM "-John Blutarsky. Antone Exum is moving forward at the snap, and both Exum and Hosley end up making the tackle along with Luther Maddy. In an 8-man front, the Rover will rotate up closer to the line of scrimmage and align as the fourth linebacker. In the 4-3-4 base set, the Rover aligns as a defensive back, specifically as one of the two safeties. The free safety is responsible for coverage adjustments and making sure that everyone is lined up properly. Tackle: The Tackle (Derrick Hopkins) lines up as a 3 technique, outside eye of the backside guard. The Hokie Gap defense rose from the ashes of the famed "Hokie Attack" 8 man front of the 1990's. So, what does it look like when a Hokie fails to control a gap? The changes were not major in terms of philosophy and were primarily related to base sets, player alignment and the responsibilities of the Whip and Rover positions. Down and distance is fairly obvious. Body positioning, angle of alignment, depth of alignment, how to come off the snap (use of hands, proper footwork, etc), reading each individual key, reacting properly to those keys, proper pursuit angle, tackling technique.that is just a short list of things that the players must focus on correctly as a unit for the defense to be successful on any given play. Based on the film that I have watched, either Bud Foster calls more middle linebacker run blitzes than any coach in the country, or the mike backer has almost zero pass responsibility. The result is a 4-3 base that follows the general rules of alignment with the players sliding and rotating based on personnel group and passing strength. Drawing on the scheme's nickel roots gives 4-2-5 teams the ability to run a divorced front concept. And that is a key aspect of playing great defense, especially when the system relies heavily on speed, quickness and pursuit. Your thoughts please. This is very important information that is communicated by the coaches in the booth to the coaches on the sideline. Also BF has talked about wanting to change the "DNA" of our DL referencing Ala. and LSU's D-lines. It wasn't a great "instinctual play" by Hosley, but a calculated play call and design by Foster. It also put the Whip and Rover in better positions to be successful. 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