Drawing a good diagram of a pass defense.

[dwmyers]

My article is here.

http://codeandfootball.wordpress.com/2013/07/01/drawing-a-good-diagram-of-a-pass-defense/

Examples include this Tampa 2 with a Tampa under front:

Or Tom Landry's old 4-3 Inside in a rotating strong zone:

Or a Miami 4-3 with mostly man coverage and free safety in Cover 1:

 

[Staggerlee]

This is great. Thanks for sharing. I'm working on learning as much as i can about schemes and the game so having visuals like this really help.

 

[Wolfpack]

Love your stuff...thanks!

 

[Wolfpack]

The Miami 4-3 is really off the radar for most folks on how big of a change it was from the standard 4-3 stuff of the time.

 

[Future]

The Miami 4-3 is really off the radar for most folks on how big of a change it was from the standard 4-3 stuff of the time.

You would think that it came first because of how simple it is though. I actually would like to see the Cowboys a little bit of tight man out of their base defense. The CBs are good in the press, and the LBs are certainly talented enough to cover every now and then.

 

[Sarge]

Thanks for posting that... interesting stuff.

 

[dwmyers]

The Miami 4-3 is really off the radar for most folks on how big of a change it was from the standard 4-3 stuff of the time.

I just added an article on the Miami 4-3 to the Wikipedia. Check it out here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_4-3_defense

I think the rewrite of the 5-2 defense wasn't bad either.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5-2_defense

The work in this thread, is, in part, preparation for a general rewrite of the articles:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_football_coverage_shells

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_defense_in_American_football

which we're discussing merging into a single article called "Passing defense in American Football". I want to get all the various coverages turned into diagrams before too long..

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[dwmyers]

You would think that it came first because of how simple it is though. I actually would like to see the Cowboys a little bit of tight man out of their base defense. The CBs are good in the press, and the LBs are certainly talented enough to cover every now and then.

Well, we know plenty about the original Landry 4-3 because it was so well documented. But Detroit and Chicago were in on the ground floor of the 4-3 as well, just no one writes so much about them.

Photos of the Detroit 4-3 in the 1957 NFL Championship tend to show the tackles in a 3 technique, for example. The Landry 4-3 Inside/Outside had them in a 2 and flexed.

Chicago's D at the time was in the hands of Clark Shaughnessy, one of the inventor of the modern T formation, and a certifiable football genius. George Allen, his successor, is credited with making the Bears a better team by simplifying Clark's schemes.

They always talk about how complex Allen's defenses were. But they were, in a way, Shaughnessy Made Understandable for Ordinary Folks.

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