They made popular the "G" front and took the 1985 Bears 46 defensive front as a compliment, which Tech would call the "Tuff" package. 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. Even if they win, guys like Hopkins and Collins were just not the same after the GT game last year. He was on a roll at the start of last season and his recovery is going really well. A London Fletcher or Brian Urlacher type linebacker would not be a good fit for the Hokies. . What's so radical about it? 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. against Stanford in the OB? They are looking at the QB and reading his actions without letting the #1 outside WR get past. The same thing happens for Mike and Whip. Winslow and the defensive end (JR. Collins) to an X stunt, with Collins going outside and JWG taking the inside (or #5) gap. That left situations where Motu was one on one with a big athletic TE going down the seam. Alas, so was Jonathan Allen, and it looks like he will be playing out of position in Alabama. It was difficult for offenses to determine how many were blitzing and how many were dropping into coverage. (Please note, the Hokies may use letters or other terminology to identify each gap.). 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. Normally, it will be one of the linebackers that will communicate any adjustments to the defensive front call or blitz call. 3) Finally, as stated in #2 above, this seems to be a heavy run control D and if we don't have super talented CB's who can cover their man without help we could get burned in the passing game real quick. His initial spot is 3x5 off the TE, reading the #2 receiver. If you can stop the run with six, the whip or backside safety doesn't have to commit so quickly. Stanford understands that the whip most often will line up to the weak side of the defense. The amount of zone and safe coverages they play really is determined by the ability of the line, mike, and backer to stop the run. 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. Bud Foster received national recognition for the way his Bear defense surprised and shut down Urban Meyer's vaunted spread rushing attack in 2014. Nekos was pretty average size for a Hokie DE (McCray is the biggest it seems like we have had since Chris Ellis), but neither Brown nor Graves fit the new prototype of NFL type 6'6 265 DE's and 6'4 310 3-4 DE's or 4-3 DT's that we see in the SEC. How does pressure relate to coverage? His upside is higher than Collins, but Collins is a much more instinctual player at this point. 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. Well, Bud had to change his defense a little to handle that. Kudos to Foster and Co. for making the adjustments. Anytime you see the mike backer dropping back, it is change up defense hoping the QB throws to a spot without seeing the mike. Its a different approach from VKs 4-2-5, which dropped one SS into the box, but essentially a 4-2-5 plays like a 4-4 front against any pro-style 2-TE/1-2 back offense. Did Jim Harbaugh out scheme us, did we execute poorly, or were we outmanned? They have to get Maddy, Marshall, and McCray in there to dominate rather than having read and react play from Wilson and Collins (at tackle.). Either way we'll have 3 starting quality DT. . It was a very clever scheme because it could be adjusted to a pass oriented defense by slipping the two outside linebackers (the Whip and Rover) into coverage as defensive backs. -- French. More to come in my next post. I had to go back and read about the defense given how I did not understand all the roles. The 6 comes from the switches called between the LBs and the backfield. That gives up some of the flat zone coverage, so watch for more WR screens this week if they show us C4. Size, strength, and explosiveness were huge factors in that variance. In obvious passing situations, the Hokies would shift to a base 4-3-4 look by dropping the Whip as the second safety. From what I've heard, a lot of the negative recruiting emphasizes that in Tech's defense a DE or OLB (Whip), for example, isn't a traditional NFL DE or OLB. 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 opinions of the author(s) on this site are independent and no way reflect the opinions of the Virginia Tech administrators, coaches, staff, or athletes. Clemson Basketball: 2014 Scholarship Roster. The Rover aligns to the passing strength pre-snap, so hell adjust to the slot WRs most of the time. What are the differences between what Tech does and a traditional NFL 4-3?? The DEs aligned much like they do today with the Stud always to the wide side and the End always to the boundary. . Often, a zone play to the right (which on a Madden diagram looks like it would go to the 6 gap) will actually cut back almost over the center. Steeles downfall came against spread-it-out, fast-paced systems like West Virginias. I foresee a TON of blitzes on 3rd and long. You cannot play straight M2M all the time. Instead, the coverage responsibility for that motioning receiver will be handed off to a defender already aligned on the other side of the field. As covered in Part 1, the Tech defense aligns based on ball position relative to the hash marks. It kicks off by detailing the inner workings of the Bud Foster Gap Defense that has baffled most of the ACC over the last 8 years. One of Techs defensive coaches in the booth communicates the ball position, down/distance and personnel group to the coaches on the sideline. After all, at Pry's introductory presser he noted he cut his teeth as a graduate assistant in the mid-90s under Foster. The formation is twins wide, so the passing strength is heavy to the wide side of the field. Great stuff as always French. What's considered non-radical? Whip starts back and creeps up or vice versa. Well, Hosley was disguising his true intention. 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. Former Coaching Staff: Where are they now? If the blitz didnt get to the QB quickly, then the defense was at risk for a big play. During a career that spanned over 3 decades Bud orchestrated some of the most physical and staunches defenses in the country. 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. getting after it down the LOS once it was clear the RB was not going for his gap. Without the post-2003 adjustments, there would have been many plays where Rouse would have been isolated in man coverage against the slot receiver. The running back is supposed to take two strides playside, plant his playside leg (in this case the right leg) and select a weak spot where the defender has overrun the play. AZ, CO, CT, IL, IN, IA, KS, LA, (select parishes), MD, MI, NH, NJ, NY, OH, OR, PA, TN, VA, WV, WY, CA-ONT only.Eligibility restrictions apply. 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. Each defender essentially has the gap in front of him. This is particularly true when the Whip or Rover is aligned on a slot WR -- hell come hard on the blitz pretty often. The Hokies showed a blitz up front, and Jayron showed a cover 3 look by bailing out and back pedaling before the snap. )jlOkD0 Nzlk}nGr(eancz#pC)vg`gd>fX&qb' h3L88ihTy%B|1ebUX9T ";*KM Cover 4 is technically a zone defense, but plays like M2M and often ends up looking just like the normal Cover 2 youre used to visualizing. 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. "My advice to you is to start drinking heavily. Bud Foster keeps Virginia Tech opponents guessing with ability to adjust on defense After Virginia Tech upset No. Frenchgreat new addition to TKP! Miami has completely destroyed GT the last few years (if i remember correctly), and they do that by blowing up the GT OL at the LOS. The scheme is also simpler to execute because the players are aligned based on ball position, rather than on the strength of the offensive formation. Based on what you said, don't the DL's all "tie" up the lines in both Bud scheme and the traditional pro-scheme? Though the philosophy was. In th defense now, the free safety and the whip are essentially interchangable. 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. 2) In a one gap 4-3, the DL wants to get up field and make plays. This "Field G" is mostly what Virginia Tech is in nowadays. The defense was predicated on putting 8 men in the box, and bringing a wide variety of unique blitzes to confuse and outman the offensive line, while in the secondary attempting to hide coverages and trick the defense into throwing into their quick blitz read, where a Hokie defensive back sat waiting to take the ball the other way. Thoughts? Instead of slanting as much (because his DL had a tendency to lose gap control and his backer couldn't figure out how to be in the correct place), Bud reverted back to shooting gaps. 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. 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. Playing in a college system that emphasizes skillset diversity is actually a good thing. Ellington) to take advantage of because all of our LB's are trained to be in gap control and aren't prepared to be in coverage. They recruit nimble, short tackles, which you don't see in the NFL. 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 . The defensive linemen get into the neutral zone, engage their blocker, secures their gap, and sheds the blocking using a "violent hand motion" (rip, swim, push-pull, or 45 technique). From the coaches in the booth, to the coaches on the sideline, to the players on the field, to the pre-snap adjustments; that is a lot of communication and it is pretty much non-stop in those 20-30 seconds between each play. Since we have such a deep and talented DL do you foresee more base defense this year? Most of the time, there is a safety/LB hybrid that is dropped into the box to create a true 8 man front. In combination, these adjustments resulted in more big plays against the Tech defense, both in the running game as well as the passing game. this is the best stuff and why i love TKP .. i know that teams use our schemes against us in recruiting but i love how the giants and their smaller, more athletic dline core, is being looked at by coach bud. 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