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We use pressure to try to dictate and
limit what an offense can do. By being able
to create confusion, we hopefully can force
an offense to commit a significant amount
of practice time to preparation for our wide
variety of man and zone blitzes. This takes
practice time away from things that they
want to do offensively.
Once you have success putting pressure
on the quarterback, offenses start going tomaximum protection. They will keep their
backs and potentially their tight end in for
extra pass protection. Now, instead of getting
four or five receivers out into pass patterns,
we will start to see more two and three-man
routes. By using zone blitzes, we can put
pressure on the quarterback, plus have max-
imum coverage versus limited receivers.
Another thing that we have discovered
about zone blitzes is that our players have
fun running them. Our linebackers are
always wanting to blitz, and our defensive
linemen dream about having the opportuni-
ty to get an interception or getting a big hit
on a receiver while in pass coverage. Zone
blitzes give us something that our players
really enjoy doing and have a lot of fun
preparing to run each week.
How Do We Run Zone Blitzes?
We base our zone blitzes out of our 4-3
and eagle fronts. We have the ability to get
an extra rusher by bringing one or two line-
backers and dropping one or two defensive
linemen, depending on the blitz.
Behind our zone blitzes, we will primari-
ly play some form of three-deep. We can
roll to cover three strong, cover three weak,
or play what we call three robber, which is
dropping a safety into the underneath hole
area. As a change-up, we will run zone
blitzes from a two-deep look.
The first blitz we will look at is run out of
our eagle front and called eagle storm. In
eagle storm, we will blitz our Sam and Mike
linebackers and drop our weak side defen-
sive end. Behind it, we will play cover threeto the strong side of the formation.
Responsibilities
Bandit: Rip inside and attack the
guards outside shoulder. We want him to
take the A gap by crushing the guard inside
and then working vertically upfield.
Nose: Cross face on the center into the
weak A gap.
Tackle: Contain player.
E n d : Attack the offensive tackle to
check for run first. On his drop, he reads
from No. 2 to No. 1. He is a seam to flat
dropper.
Sam: Blitzes D gap. Is a contain player
Mike: Blitzes strong side B gap.
Scrapes tight off of the bandit going inside
to the A gap.
Will: Key is No. 3. Is a B gap player with
run at him. Plays strong A gap with run
away. He is the hole player vs. pass.
Rover: Drops seam to flat strong. He
reads No. 2 to No. 1.
Free: Rotates to the deep middle third.
Corner: Bail to deep outside third.
The next blitz we will look at is run out of
our eagle G front and we call it eagle G
flush. In this blitz, we are going to bring our
Mike and Will linebackers and drop our
weak side defensive end. Behind our flush
blitz we will drop our free safety into the
underneath hole and play our three-robber
coverage.
Responsibilities
Bandit: Contain player.
Nose: Cross face of the guard into the
strong B gap.
Tackle: Contain player.E n d : Attack the offensive tackle to
check for run first. On drop, read from No.
2 to No. 1. He is a seam-to-flat dropper.
Sam: Attack the tight end to check for
run first. On his drop, he will read from No.
2 to No. 1. He is a seam to flat dropper.
Mike: Blitz weak A gap. Come tight
behind the Will blitzing.
Will: Blitz strong A gap.
Rover: Rotate to the deep middle third.
Free: Drop into the underneath hole.
Diagram 7: Eagle Storm Cover Three
Diagram 2: Eagle Front
Diagram 1: 4-3 Front
Diagram 5: Three-Robber
Diagram 3: Cover Three Strong
Diagram 4: Cover Three Weak
Diagram 6: Two-Deep Diagram 8: Eagle GFlush
Three Robber
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Corner: Bail to deep outside third.
The third and final zone blitz we will look
at is called stack whip. It is run out of our
stack front. In this blitz we will bring our Will
and Mike linebackers and drop our strong
side defensive end. Behind it we will roll
Cover 3 to the weak side of the formation.
Responsibilities
Bandit: Attack the tight end to check for
run first. On the drop, he will read No. 2 to
No. 1. He is a seam to flat player.
Tackle: Contain player.
Nose: Cross face of center into strong A
gap.
End: Rip inside and attack the guards
outside shoulder. We want him to take the
A gap by crushing the guard inside and
then working vertically upfield.
Sam: Hole player. Read No. 3. Run to,
play B gap.
Mike: Blitz weak B gap. Scrape tight off
of the defensive end going into the A gap.
Will: Blitz C gap. Contain player.
Rover: Rotate to the deep middle third.
Free: Drop and become a seam to flat
player weak. Read No. 2 to No. 1.
Corner: Bail to deep outside third.
We have had some success with our pres-
sure package by incorporating the zone blitz.
Last season, we had a total of 36 sacks and
18 interceptions in 10 games. We believe in
the aggressive, attacking style of defense. Our
players and coaches believe in our system
and are committed to preparing it each week.
Again, on behalf of our head coach Rob
Ash and the rest of the Drake University
football program, we would like to thank the
AFCA for the opportunity to contribute to this
years Summer Manual. I would also like to
thank all of those coaches who, through the
years, have helped us grow in this profes-
sion. We hope this article can be of some
benefit to your program, and wish you the
best of luck in the 1999 season.
Diagram 9: Stack Whip Cover Three
The Drake defense held its opponents to less than 300 yards in total offenselast season and was a big reason for the Bulldogs earning their second Pioneer
Football League championship.
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