In certain situations, without changing the personnel, the Hokies will play an 8-man front, with four defensive linemen, four linebackers, and three defensive backs (4-4-3 alignment). The Mike will likely be unblocked, but the running back should flow directly to him, so the Mike essentially has responsibility for the 1 gap. Registering for an account is free and easy. Speaking of personnel groups and formations, have you ever wondered what Bud Foster and Charley Wiles are doing with all the hand signals between plays? Several things are known at the end of the first play game situation, down and distance and ball position. Jack Tyler can't cover a rock, so CBF adjusts his schemes and defensive calls to account for that. Prior to 2004, the alignment of the linebackers and safeties was based more on the strong side / weak side of the offensive formation. Containment often fell onto the shoulders of the Whip LB, a hybrid player that was part linebacker and part safety. Once their keys indicate that the running back has the ball, each pursues the ball. Next Up: All of those confusing pass coverages. The DEs aligned much like they do today with the Stud always to the wide side and the End always to the boundary. I still worry about the whip (watching film of the Stanford game will do that to a guy) and Maddy and Marshall have to take the next step. As the coaches like to say, it is important that their minds do not tie up their feet. At the snap, the nose has the daunting task of stunting two gaps, crossing the face of both the guard and the tackle to get outside shoulder gap fit on the 4 gap. Bud, a divorcee, married Jessie in February on Super Bowl Sunday, about four months after the hospital scare and around the time discussion began about him retiring. Hopefully he has a breakthrough year. The offense uses those techniques to get a better read on what the defense may be doing. Stud End (Tyrell Wilson): Pre-Snap, the S end lines up outside eye of the boundary side tackle. Kudos to Foster and Co. for making the adjustments. I think we played less aggressive which led to Clemson eventually winning. There are a number of factors that the coaches consider when setting the defense from play to play. 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. The Whip slides over in a defensive back alignment over the inside receiver. 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. Simple. Lets go through the sequence that takes place in the 20-30 seconds between the end of one play and the next snap. Former Coaching Staff: Where are they now? Really great stuff. 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. They do not run blitz as much with him in the lineup, however he is used just as much on mike dog pass blitzes (at points he was their most dangerous pass rusher as a blitzer last year.). What's considered non-radical? Adobe d C What are the differences between what Tech does and a traditional NFL 4-3?? They tie up the center and both guards, allowing the middle linebacker to go unblocked sideline to sideline. 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. It turns into a 1/4-1/4-1/2 scheme, C3, or you have to split the coverage so that the single receiver backside is getting man coverage. 3) I think it does hurt recruiting elite out of state prospects. I broke the 4th wall of telestration. Meanwhile, Dwayne Allen would come BEHIND the line against the grain of the play and pop out the weak side. Mike: The Mike backer (Jack Tyler) lines up directly over the center, and blitzes against the flow of the play to fly through the 1-3 gap. Aaron Rodgers, Kellen Moore, Andrew Luck all have great skills under pressure. Next week, we will examine some of the basic blitz packages that the Hokies use for passing down and distance situations. Hopefully Logan will have improved his accuracy to be able to make them pay for it. What VT wants to do to you is show the 8 man front, and force you to go into max-protect blocking, and then peel those extra 2 guys back into Cover 4. Also, stud 6'6 265 DE's who want to play in the NFL, not tie up linemen so linebackers make plays. 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. To the uneducated eye, the defense features two ends, two tackles, three linebackers, two safeties, and two corners just like a traditional NFL style 4-3, but Foster turns the 4-3 concept on its ear. When Frank Beamer coached under Bobby Ross, they ran the Wide Tackle 6, and he took that with him to VT. So, it's not surprising that the man's personality matches his philosophy when it comes to dual reads in offensive football. The WHIP LB is a weakside LB, analogous to a JACK LB in a 3-4, who often blitzes off the edge in pressure situations, but who has to be able to cover backs well. %PDF-1.2 % 8 0 obj << /Length 9 0 R /Filter /FlateDecode >> stream On the other side, teams could get favorable running game match-ups by running to the boundary. And you can quote me on that shit!" From there, Tech held Miami to 10, Kent State to 0, #14 Wake Forest to 6, and Virginia to 0 to finish 10-2. 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. Why are we sometimes successful (last year 2nd half) and sometimes not so successful (09 second half)? 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. If they can get Brown and Hand, I think Foster will figure out a way to take their skills and make it work, but I can GUARENTEE you, every recruiter that visits Brown and Hand will tell them that there has not been a Hokie defensive lineman since Foster was hired that has been a productive multi-year NFL starter. The singular thing that can derail their run defense is getting chewed up physically against Georgia Tech. It wasn't ideal. Gap fit means when the defensive player hits the assigned gap, he must hold that gap maintaining the proper leverage in order to get off a block and make a tackle. The whistle blows, the players un-pile and the cycle starts again. Rover adjusts to the better receivers or Field side. The reason why they can adapt to spread offenses reasonably well is because of the player they put at the hybrid position. The same thing happens for Mike and Whip. The legendary defensive coordinator stepped away after the 2019 season, but his . pdf yrs ago. Its a bit like a Tampa 2 defense, where the MLB drops back deeper in zone over the middle with 2 safeties behind, except that here youre dropping the FS down instead of backing up the MLB. I remember the first half of the Stanford OB and watching one of Stanford's 300 lb guards kick out and just flatten Eddie Whitley. Seems to me it would be a waste of time unless they are going to use him at DE. So, I don't think having our DL being smallish gives us a good advantage to counter the GT offense (a la moving our DE in as a DT and then replacing the DE with T. Wilson), since Miami has prototypical NFL DT's and absolutely mauled them at the LOS. Seems there were a lot of big plays in that game and during the year. As some of you may remember, Virginia Tech rose to prominence in the early 90's on the back of elite special teams, a grind-it-out conservative offense, a state of the art weight training program, and most significantly, on the back of a radical defensive approach that took recruits that nobody wanted and turned them loose like the dogs of war on opposing defenses. It defintely helps to have depth regardless of the scheme, but depth and ability in the scheme only make it better. Most college teams are not that good, but if the Hokies want to win a NC we will have to face that caliber of offense. I remember seeing our defensive philosophy torched about ten years ago. Really excited about the front seven this year. Exactly like Clemson this year. 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. It is fascinating stuff and beautiful to watch when it produces the type of results that we have seen over the years from Bud Fosters bunch. Jessie has three boys of her. I think they are well coached. Whip is to the passing strength, which is most often to the field but (against teams like Pitt) can be to the boundary. Clemson started to rise after that game, and we started to fall. I'd have to double check but I'm fairly certain Wiles even said he is the starter going into August camp because his players don't lose their starting jobs due to injury. I'm sure Nick Saban said the very same thing to him hence his "I don't believe I could achieve my goals at VT" comment. d88$FQ &~g?Waj }4;{S=Gg``YoF2a2XCTH#?:]=e1sp=$3_ S??oB/r~u6n?o'tm{ iu e*g[3mcXX_ endstream endobj 7 0 obj 859 endobj 12 0 obj << /Length 13 0 R /Filter /FlateDecode >> stream I admit, I got chills when I read Charley Wiles bullet on defensive line play: "Feet in neutral zone by the time the ball disappears into centers crouch.". Watching film of South Carolina against Clemson, South Carolina absolutely manhandled the Clemson OL, the same OL that manhandled the Hokies in the 2nd half of the ACC CG. pretty heavy on stunts and exchanges between the DL and LBs, Clemson Basketball Travels to NC State with Last Hope of NCAA Berth on the Line, Clemson Softball roars to fast start and high rankings. While he misses the tackle, he allows enough time for the other players to secure their gap and then pursue to tackle the UVA tailback for a marginal gain. k_~k=: .qNgR\T0A$wcfXoMe#:!v2W}\;Kfva%VSc~s{A?dtpq) g~u+c\8h{ ]KKCz/H-\XH/c&4]#T{*]k0:}M &i$kj? [=?_. The wide side is called the field and the short side is called the boundary. Is this true and if so, how do we strengthen this weakness with out losing run control? So, what does it look like when a Hokie fails to control a gap? This is absolutely an attacking defense where every player is expected to #1 maintain leverage/control their gap responsibility and #2 attack attack attack the ball carrier. Were tallish and relatively lean. First of all, they had a GREAT offensive line that was able to block at angles which cut off the stunts from Virginia Tech linebackers. When Fuller took over whip, it seemed like that balance flipped, with the Whip finishing on more blitzes and the Mike not filling up the pass-rush stat column as much. And you can quote me on that shit!" Ideally he can maintain leverage without being driven downfield. 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. More and more NFL coaches are blending the 4-3 and 3-4 concepts and scheme. Odds & lines subject to change. Sounds like fun doesnt it? The Whip and Free Safety were more weak side players, so they would usually align to the weak side of the formation. A similar thing happened with the game against Miami, where LM just gashed us in the second half. Stanford also used formation to create matchup problems. I think we have had these super talented CB's the past few years but what happens when somebody gets hurt and we have to go to the bench like when Hosley got hurt last year? Tech makes that difficult because there is a hand off of responsibilities as the offense shifts or motions out from one passing strength to another. What do you mean by "radical stunting"? Join the community. Bud Foster used the Bear defense to suffocate the Buckeyes' run game in 2014. I hope they can return to dominance. By handing off in this way, the defenders do not tip the coverage. If healthy, this year's defense is going to be quite different. While the nose sometimes gets unblocked and can get upfield, more often than not he will make contact with the guard and tackle. The mike linebacker has no pass coverage responsibility in most of the Hokie defenses. Whip: The Whip (Kyle Fuller) lines up wide, but well to the inside of the slot. A 46 is by definition a "Bear" front, but to use "Bear" does not necessarily mean a 46 defense. In this installment of the series, we will cover the general concepts of Bud Foster's defensive scheme, including how offensive personnel and formation impact defensive alignments and responsibilities. Fosters defense is always going to be well-coached, and being well-coached puts players where they need to be, but you still need some talent to beat better OLs even if the defenders are where they need to be. 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. 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. These coverages have the goal of taking away the crossing routes over the middle and the post route that is used to attack C2 defenses, but also keep a guy relatively close to the LOS to help with the run, or running QBs. Also BF has talked about wanting to change the "DNA" of our DL referencing Ala. and LSU's D-lines. The primary adjustments were to go to a base 2-high safety set (as discussed earlier), with the Whip up as a linebacker full time and the Rover back as a safety in most alignments. He has held the job since 1996, and he came to . -- French. That is a lot for the players to process isnt it? Shop fresh Hokies gear at TKP sponsor Homefield. With deep safety help, Hosley stopped his back pedal and planted on the snap, and he stepped in front of the quick curl and picked off the pass to seal the game. JWG goes to fill the gap, but the tight end takes him off his feet. Virginia Techs defense is a unique one in major college football in that it is very much an older style of defense descended from the Gap 8 and Wide Tackle 6. In fact, since he arrived in Blacksburg in 1995, the Hokies have led all FBS programs in sacks (894) and sack yardage (-6,110). Remember getting gashed repeatedly by just about everybody we played? This site utilizes responsive web design, which renders the site properly on all platforms (PC, tablet, mobile). The doubles on the interior also give the ends more flexibility to get upfield and rush the passer. In that AFCA presentation could you explain what Wiles means for h.(Under Defensive Line: 10 Commandments) Escape: Rip or wipe, push with power, pull with trail, step 45 and rip your gap. The Hokies switch between man and cover 3. *:JZjz ? Yeah Hosley getting knocked out screwed the rest of the defense off. Note: This is the second installment of a three part series about Virginia Techs nationally renowned defense. The dominant defenses in Tampa Bay of the late 90's early 2000's allowed Warren Sapp and Simeon Rice to get up field as the method for controlling their gaps. If he went out, Rover has him. Because of the gap fit responsibility, a tremendous amount of pressure exists for the whip and the safeties to be sure tacklers anytime the ball carrier penetrates the line. Rover always goes to the side of the passing strength (not necessarily the TE side) or the Field side, and WHIP always aligns opposite the Rover. VT couldn't stop the run against Stanford. Tech's attacking eight-man-front scheme, first instituted by Elmassian in 1993, has become one of college . Depending on the formation, Rover can pick up the #1 receiver short and the FS comes down on the slot, with the CB still in deep half-field coverage behind.Whip aligns himself several ways, so you need a good football player here. I don't have the time to cover them all, but this is a pressure-based defense. Id call both of them pseudo-Cover 3. 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. Going into last season, there was legitimate concern about Brenden Hill playing a position that had become more defined as a linebacker, but he proved that a player of his physical abilities could be productive as a Whip as well if he handled his assignments correctly. Wiley, Brown, Russell, Drakeford, Gray, Banks, Prioleau, Charleton, Midget, Bird, McCadam, Pile, Hall, Green, Fuller, Williams, Hamilton, Rouse, Flowers, Harris, Chancellor, Carmichael, Hosley, Fuller, Exum, Jarrett. The consistent 3 stripes on white was a good look. Take the shortest route to the ball and arrive in bad humor. There is an extensive blitz package in VTs scheme. 2) This defense also seems to point out a weakness for a athletic, good hands tight end (ex. They just dont have the special players they used to get at those hybrid spots and DE, which they always used to have. They've only had a few with an NFL frame, and none of them worked out. Also when the offense sets into Trips, you're not able to play a true C4. Down and distance is fairly obvious. The Chargers' defense ranked last in third-down conversion percentage (49.54%), 30th in rushing yards allowed per game (138.9), 30th in points allowed per game (27.0) and 23rd in yards allowed . While it's currently a knock that VT hasn't developed NFL linemen, it's more of an inability to recruit them onto campus than anything else. This "Field G" is mostly what Virginia Tech is in nowadays. If NFL type DT's wouldn't fit BF's scheme then what's the use of trying to recruit guys like an Andrew Brown? Have no idea how that played into Foster's defense, but he has played and started taller more slender DTs. How many Hokies have become elite corners in the NFL? 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. It will be a 4-3. http://www.orangeandwhite.com/news/2012/jan/21/swinney-hired-venables-br. One thing that the Hokies will have to do is be able to beat their press coverage on our receivers like what happened when D.J. Body positioning, angle of alignment, depth of alignment, how to come off the snap (use of hands, proper footwork, etc), reading each individual key, reacting properly to those keys, proper pursuit angle, tackling technique.that is just a short list of things that the players must focus on correctly as a unit for the defense to be successful on any given play. The free safety fills play-side to clean up if the running back breaks through the play-side gaps. The defensive calls will be different on 2nd and three versus 3rd and nine. Note that with no receivers split to the boundary, the Rover will rotate up to the line of scrimmage and align as a linebacker on the boundary side. 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. This allows the players to react instinctively and play with more confidence. It is mostly combined with Man coverage and is pretty heavy on stunts and exchanges between the DL and LBs. The idea is the front 6 align based on front alignment rules. Hopkins was hurt slanting if I remember correctly. Hell Charley Wiles even stated that one thing he was challenging Antoine Hopkins on last August was making plays out of his alignment, i.e. In th defense now, the free safety and the whip are essentially interchangable. They know where to be and they know how to adjust more quickly to formation shifts and motion. As for tight ends, teams that play tight ends usually end up with the rover or free safety covering them. WHIP might align himself like a FS, but hell come down over the middle into a hook zone instead of dropping for deep half-field coverage. 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. After that Boyd was able to find quick check downs due to loose coverage. The Hokies play a base 4-3-4 defense, meaning that there are four defensive linemen, three linebackers and four defensive backs in the base set. Thekeyplay.com is not affiliated with Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Next week will take film from the Clemson game and demonstrate exactly how the Hokies have to maintain a delicate balance between aggressive pursuit and gap responsibility in order to be effective. Attack Defense Bud Foster Defensive Coordinator Virginia Polytechnic Institute Blacksburg, Va. Jim Cavanaugh Outside Linebackers Lou West Secondary Charlie Wiles Defensive Line Diagram 2 I foresee a TON of blitzes on 3rd and long. I understand explaining that might as well be another post but it would be facinating stuff. We play three different packages: G, T u f f and FD/ST-G. Our G package is our base defense. Clemson and Duke are really the only teams I can remember that have attacked Hokie corners and been successful. 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. The Whip responsibilities seem to change as much as the skillsets of the players in the position. For #3, I think this defense actually makes the corners look better than they really are. After all, at Pry's introductory presser he noted he cut his teeth as a graduate assistant in the mid-90s under Foster. in the long run, if the giants dline continues to dominant with "defensive ends", i think it can be used to pitch to good dlineman. It seems to me that when Bruce Taylor is in the game there's quite a bit more of a mix. For that reason, some teams found success by running weak side out of those spread formations. Instead he will look to plant and dive straight ahead for the inside of the 6 gap or the 4 gap, or he will plant and cut back to the center gap. Backer and Rover would take the strongside back and pass him off inside or out depending on his route. It is even more stunning given how horridly Miami's D was against the Hokies. Hokie defensive linemen are required to have a unique ability to sometimes cover gaps that are far from where they line up, while maintaining leverage in order to prevent being knocked backwards by an offensive lineman. All original material and images are copyrighted by TechSideline.com and may not be reused or reprinted without permission. They recruit nimble, short tackles, which you don't see in the NFL. H332U(W5RR-T56 )onl ${* I want to focus on one, what has made teams successful against the Virginia Tech run defense? Most of the time, there is a safety/LB hybrid that is dropped into the box to create a true 8 man front. Alas, so was Jonathan Allen, and it looks like he will be playing out of position in Alabama. MAN. A student manager then uses the sign board to communicate the personnel group to the players on the field. The one-gap 4-3 is a little more similar to the Hokies in that each defensive front 7 has gap responsibility, but in the NFL almost never does the radical stunting that the Hokies perform (the NFL lines are good enough to adjust and drive the stunting linemen off the ball.). All Hokie, All the Time. Also, against Ace and Doubles sets, the coverage basically changes into 1/4-1/4-1/2 Cover 3. Period. So complimenting it with the Bear front gives you the choice of going Even or Odd with a stem (pre-snap shift). It is a scheme that looks complicated, but yet is very simple. Unlike the old 4-4, I think Foster and Gray want the free and rover to essentially be interchangable with the only exception being that the free makes the defensive secondary calls and audibles. "-John Blutarsky, Small, and generally stout defensive tackles certainly seem to be the Bud Foster model. Worilds was moved to OLB and by the accounts of Steelers insiders, has struggled with the transition to a 3-4 look. They are not supposed to be playmakers (except in the pass rush) but they have to be adept at maintaining leverage while stunting. I have a few questions: 1) With all the extra movement in the "radical stunts", do you see this as wearing down the front 7 more and possibly being the cause for some of the injuries, esp last year, (ex. MIKE is the same type of player as MIKE in a 4-3 defense, but Backer is more like a SAM LB in a 4-3, and often gets the RB or TE to the passing strength. Tech often checks out of 4 into their version of straight Man, called a Cover 6 package, but it maintains the C4 look. Privacy Policy | Terms of Use. And stopping the run was (and still is) the #1 goal of Bud Fosters defense. Billy Hite. At the snap, Jack Tyler reads a key that sends him flying through the one gap. The adjustment from one set to the other depends on the alignment of the Rover. Frenchgreat new addition to TKP! He retained the terminology and many of the blitz schemes of the Attack Defense, and then moved the rover position back to that of a traditional strong safety. At that point, the players on the field know the down/distance and the front, pressure, and coverage calls. This often creates the illusion to the running back that there isn't backside pursuit, making the backside cutback to the 1 gap the logical place to go. The defensive front called "Bear" is part of the 46 defense, but they are separable things. Love the in-depth analysis. Whether you've been running the 4-2-5 defense for years or you're looking to implement the scheme for the first time, . If you play C2R, and the opposition sends the outside WRs deep, the CB must go with him, which takes away the deep help for everyone on one side of the defense, so that it basically ends up M2M. If you have any questions, I will be sure to answer to answer them in the comments. As for NFL caliber lineman. Offensive schemes do the same. Did Jim Harbaugh out scheme us, did we execute poorly, or were we outmanned? If your slot recognizes it and runs a slant, the FS has to hustle to get there and take that away. HWC? Following Michael Cole's injury, Foster mostly used the old "46" alignment made famous by Buddy Ryan and the Chicago Bears. The most common is a walked out position on weakside slots, but he can also align deeper at 3x5 or almost as deep as the FS. That is really the key to the front. I would argue we had bad match-ups of speed vs. speed. For more details about the site, including a list of TechSideline.com staff, see our About page. What does that mean? Registered users can participate in the forum, post and vote on comments. I think I understand why our defense is used against us in recruiting. One of Techs defensive coaches in the booth communicates the ball position, down/distance and personnel group to the coaches on the sideline. I think that with their recruiting getting better, Foster may change. He's as genuine as they come. Game situation includes things like score, wind / weather conditions and time remaining on the clock. VTs version of defense is a morphed descendent of what the Washington Huskies ran in the 80s and early 90s when their defense dominated the Pacific coast under DC Jim Lambright. What is a zone blitz? How will VT defend against teams like Stanford and other NFL caliber offenses? Graves certainly was an outlier as far as his girth, along with Jim Davis, but the vast majority of VT tackles are shaped like trashcans. 1. We were tiny on D in 2010. Because its a 4-4 defense that has to be able to handle the spread offense at times, it needs some rather special players at some of the hybrid LB spots. 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. Basically, it requires two defensive tackles who can each command double teams. If one DL gets blown out of the hole, it creates problems for every other defender. Not sure Tahj Boyd's skills are of the same caliber but he took advantage of us as well. When Virginia Tech plays Duke on Friday night (7 ET, ESPN/ESPN App), Foster will coach his 282nd game as the Hokies' defensive coordinator. Likewise, by no longer asking the Rover to man up against speedy slot receivers to the wide side of the field allows linebacker / safety type athletes like Aaron Rouse to be successful at that position. The formation is twins wide, so the passing strength is heavy to the wide side of the field. The Whip was a weak side outside linebacker in the base 8-man front and he was a weak side safety in the 2-deep safety set (base used regularly in passing situations). And personnel group to the better receivers or field side they come no pass coverage responsibility most. Any questions, i think we played were more weak side players so... 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