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Post by jkeeler on Feb 16, 2009 21:54:40 GMT -5
Wanted to hear your thought on the 3-4 defense on the high school level. It seems like more and more teams in the pro are running this scheme, and your seeing it popping up more in college too. We see 3-5, 5-3, even some 5-2 at our level, but I have yet to see a team in our state (VA) that run a two gap 3-4. I love the flexibility that it gives you week to week in facing spread, wing-t, ower running ,etc. I also like the idea of having one of your best players two-gapping at the nose and controlling the A-gaps. Anybody running a 3-4 or seeing it in their conference?
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Post by CoachJoe on Feb 17, 2009 17:08:52 GMT -5
We did run a 3-4 when I played in high school (in Georgia, 1997). Didn't do any slanting. The two tackles played a true 2-gap, but I was the nose and I was 165lbs, so I just shot gaps and chopped knees. The LBs read off it. The Sam always played up on the line vs. a TE. The two tackles were 1-AA caliber players though, that helped. I think it is gaining steam though. At the Atlanta Glazier Clinic, Jim Herrmann spoke on the 3-4 to a pretty good audience from what I heard (notes from Herrmann's Webinar are at www.gridironchat.com/resources/herrmann_34_defense.pdf) |
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Post by card25 on Nov 4, 2009 19:56:35 GMT -5
I coached in a program that ran a 3-4 at the high school level for several years, lined up as a 5-2 though. You need good athletes to make it work, as soon as we had average kids at key positions the defense gave up twice the points.
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Post by CoachJoe on Nov 14, 2009 17:29:36 GMT -5
Seems like you'd need 3 legit d-linemen on that defense - the probably is not something that many "average" programs have. You can get by with one (or none) in a 3-5-3, and one or two in an even front!
I haven't seen it in Iowa though, everyone is running power running game offenses here
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