Just played a game with a very good coach....
and some of the defensive techniques you speak of is how teams have tried to stop my team.
They often line up 3 yards off the ball and let the O-linemen do their zone blocking and then the D-Linemen come to the ball. I was very interested to see this strategy against me last night.
In the SO style, because you only get 35 seconds to set up on offense, you have to study the defensive schemes early. When I saw this employed against us, I changed the course of the dials under the prong to go straight ahead. Because the splits are so wide, the defensive line gives up 3 yards at the point of attack and we can put the two backs right behind the linemen or even in a gap. And because we are a 3-1 audible system, the defense only can make that 1 adjustment and the other back remains free and clear.
If you are a pinpoint passer or understand the audible schemes well, you can do major damage. I think the other team only had 1 sack on us because it's difficult for the linebackers to get to the QB in this system. And throwing in hurry-up offense in this system, it makes for a most exciting style.
The possibilities are endless because of the type of blocking schemes that you can have using wide splits. There's a multitude of things that can be ran, including power sweeps, sandwich blocks, rollouts, etc. It's just on such a higher level when it comes to cerebral blocking schemes in miniature football.
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