TCU Blitz Package
This season we are working on on transitioning to a 4-2-5 defense. For a few years now we have been a 3-4 and it has served us well, however, as often happens in high school, our personnel for the near feature dictates that we no longer can run the 3-4
Personnel
I am a big proponent of fitting a system to a kid and not a kid into a system. Its hard enough to be a high school kid, nevermind a high school football player, so why not put more on myself to fit the system to them, then making them do something that makes it harder to create success.
We have seen a move to more hybrid kids at our school. We no longer have a big 300 lb nose tackle, but we do have 6 250 lb kids that can do a little work on the line. We dont have the 235 lb LBs anymore, but we do have faster, 22lb kids that can play either MLB or W/s/$ in this system.
4-2-5
When transferring defenses, I believe in always starting to learn from the best, and recent history tells us its this guy....
2014 AFCA Coach of the Year, Gary Patterson. You cannot read anything on the internet about the 425 without immediately being directed to him. I have read a lot of information so far, and it is all clear and concise in his system. It has been about as much of a smooth transition as one could hope for up to this point, and that is a credit to Patterson's simpleness, and me gaining the information by way of Brophy and Coach Hoover.
Blitz Package
The easiest thing I have been able to install is the blitz package due to an excellent film I found.
The Blitz Package
Coverage and Philosophy
Bullets
Bullets are inside linebacker blitzes.
Smokes
Smokes are Safety Blitzes. Lions are Smokes but with an exchange with the End.
DOGS
Dogs combine the Safety and the Inside LB to the same side.
Bullets Thunder
Bullets Thunder brings both ILB and a Safety. The Safety must make a COP call to tell his DE that he has the DE in coverage.
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Hopefully this helps you have half the success of Gary Patterson. Any questions, as always, leave in the comment sections, Ill always answer as best I can.
