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Marshall Cuomo
Defensive Assistant and LBs
Warren Hills Regional HS
Washington,NJ
Here to take notes on this one, RPOs gave me agida this year.
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Q5: What are your thoughts on using stunts to stop the run while keeping your “conflict” defender strictly to the pass responsibility? #425chat (Question sent in from participant)
A1: Man Coverage and eliminate the passing option. If the WR is better, he's probably better vs anything you run anyway. I'll take my chances and eliminate the run game with numbers in the box. #425chat
A1: We must determine and every player must understand if he is a “Run-first” or “Pass-first player”. Then let’s Mess with that B gap conflict! #425chat
A2: Teach the guy who they are reading to take 6 inch steps to make the read as long as possible. Mix in some man blitz & other things to try and give the wrong read to the QB #425chat
A4: No need to blitz - play your base because that's what your entire defense is built on. Blitzing is fine, but if that's your bread and butter and it fails, you don't have anything to go to next. #425chat
A4: Can do it some to mix things up but eventually they will figure out the man look and run a rub/pick route to beat you. Have to have multiple ways to defend EVERYTHING #425chat
A1: A) If we stop the run we will take away half of it..B) Make sure our kids understand the side of the field that is being read by the QB (usually RB side) n what route combos are most common in each formation..front stops the run, pattern match cov handles the routes #425chat
We try to minimize the conflict player by essentially playing man..if it's long distance we will place the conflict player further away from the box and make a "late" tackle #425chat
Q5: What are your thoughts on using stunts to stop the run while keeping your “conflict” defender strictly to the pass responsibility? #425chat (Question sent in from participant)
A1: Why do I not coach offense instead of trying to defend this BS? Who are they trying to put in conflict? How can we change that while maintaining our ability to stop the run? Can we make them wrong with an adjustment?
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A1: Emphasis on responsibilities. Everyone needs to focus on their job and nothing else. If the Q is a dude, the simpler we will be the ensure we get the matchups we want. #425chat
Who cares? Beauty of quarters. Run guys are run guys and pass guys are cover guys. Let the safeties play flat footed at 10-12 and smack those receivers running seams, etc. Fire zone right in the qbs face.
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A1: “Why are they RPOing?” “Pre or post snap read?” “Box count or leverage?” “Who is being read most often?” “Can/Does QB Run?” “How far down field are the lineman getting every single time they throw it?” (Answer: as far as they want.) #425Chat
A2: I wouldn't teach him anything that he'll learn well in a week. We just need to trust our reads, play solid fundamentals, rally to the ball and we should be in good shape. #425chat
A2: With pattern match cov and different variations of man cov we don’t really have a conflict defender...they’ll read or overhang/apex defender, but even with him triggering to the run, we end up with a body on a body in cov with our pattern match principles, at worst #425chat
A5: I think line stunts are underused at the hs level, but you better know when to call the right ones. This where scouting comes in to know what run schemes do they match with their rpo #425Chat
A2- Avoid having a conflict player. Put the DL in his gap, allow him to hang in the seam of 2 or 3. I never slow a run fit player down. In high school football you have to stop the run 1st. I never tell my guys to worry about pass 1st unless they are a 3rd level player.
A2: Depends on the formation, gameplan, etc. Example might be: Hey Mike in 3x1 if you apex and back is to you, give movement call to DL so you can be a slower fitter. Or Hey WS, if Back is to your side play this coverage. If back is away, play that coverage. #425chat
A3: Blitz 6 Mafia. Get in that QB's face before he has a chance to make a good read. 2-Read over the top is solid coverage to any offensive pass combination. #425chat
A5: I believe they are necessary. Any offense at a conpetive level is going to hurt you if you stay static. Find ways to “Trap” and ways to turn the conflict player into a “Pass-first” then replace him post-snap with somebody else. #425chat
A6 I am more apt to blitz the mesh on the goalline as IMO you need a negative yardage play..many RPO's get tackled for 1-2 yard gains..can't have that there #425chat
A1: just like defending the triple option in my mind. Take away the run and make the QB “pitch” the ball. Make sure whoever they are trying to put in “conflict” is not in conflict. KISS.
A4: I'd live in the blitz if I could. I believe a strong base is a good defense, but if you are static a good offensive coordinator will cook you all night long. Defense has to be aggressive and force the offense into situations that WE want, not the other way around. #425chat
A3: If I can stay in Base Coverage - Split Field Quarters/Palms stuff with a few tweaks or movements I would like to do that. If I don't like that, then we may need to play some man concepts. #425Chat
A2: Must answer who conflict player is and why. We do our best to prevent who is being read. We will mix fronts, stunts, coverage to muddy the read/add box players. Try to encourage the O to become 1 dimensional. I.D. their inefficiencies & encourage those reads. #425chat
A5: stay away from mostly because they “catch” you as @CoachCiocci would say and they send the home run hitta” in the as @CoachOsovet would say #425chat
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@CoachKelleyCHHS, @CoachCiocci, @CoachOsovet
A2: You give him assignments based on the rules of your call. You have to adjust your calls as a play caller to make the game easy for your guys - easier said than done. Then bring it from the back end. Or let them be ball players and protect them over the top
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A2: He needs to be able to play fast, so we will only ask him to do his job. It is our job to make sure his responsibility is clear to him within the scheme. The better he is, the more responsibilities we can give him. #425chat
A5: Depends on who the player is. Our front is divorced from the back, so if the read man is linebacker, that doesn't affect the coverage in the back and vice-versa. Being divorced allows us to not have to wholesale change our rules or assignments from week to week. #425chat
Coach we do the same. We believe in our rules and so do our players. We do not want them thinking or playing slow or having too many “what ifs.” #425chat
A2. No differently. Will disguise to get what we want. Send him. Man him. Pop and drop him. But all depends on what he can take away and what we determine is the greatest threat. #425chat
A3: All goes back to game plan but we either want to encourage a read to take advantage of our strengths/O weakness, or we want to move the front/add man to the box or run fit/spin the coverage to disguise the read. #425chat
Q5: What are your thoughts on using stunts to stop the run while keeping your “conflict” defender strictly to the pass responsibility? #425chat (Question sent in from participant)
A1) I want to know if our skill players are better then theirs. If so, we will play a lot of man and load the box to stop the run. If not, we stop the run first, and we make sure our safeties are prepared to make the conflict player right. #425chat
A6: Depends on their tendencies and the situation, just like any other week. I refuse to treat an RPO team like some video game boss that we have to make special preparations for. #425chat
Cover 0 is not going to be the base game plan. On that note I don’t think sitting in my base the whole game against RPO is the answer. Gotta take a chance with your kids to rattle the kid across from them. #425chat
A5: I like the idea of movements. We never told the conflict player he was strictly pass coverage. Definitely would tell the corner or something hey....you are man on this single receiver...ZERO run job...all eyes on your man please we will handle run you handle route. #425Chat
A4: Depends on who you got and who they got. In my opinion, if on-field talent is equal or even close to equal, it can be effective in spurts but I believe a good O could scheme someone up in a hurry of go to answer is 0 man. #425chat
A2: If read player is obvious, blitz &try to force a bad throw. Rely on man coverage to stall any quick game. Stunt, stem and run games up front to deter the predetermined blocking scheme. RPOs are tricky. Can’t lose your mind and throw away your game plan and def system #425chat
We coach them exactly the same. Teach them defensive fundamentals. Lots of reps. Those fundamentals then become second nature. Trust them to win on Friday night. #425chat
A3: Personally, I'm a rip/liz guy with some match variations and rat. Quarters/Palms/Trap have their place too and are more prevalent now than ever. I also think line movement has its place to dictate the action where you want it to go
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so we are going to have 3 plans. 1. 425 look 2. a 3-4 look that sometimes is 3-3 is and then a couple of blitzes out of each look...get the kids good at a few things..don't like line twists at our level #425chat
A5: Not a huge fan, feel like I’m rolling the dice when doing that...might work perfectly, might kill us...I’m more for stunting to try and get the QB to do what want him to do/dictate who we want to have the ball #425chat
A3. Your “base” should have answers to RPOs built in. If not u better have better players than them. Any match zone or man is the best. True zone spot dropping is Eliminated from game plan #425chat
A2: I think the best is to mix your fronts and coverages and roll people around to confuse the QB. But again if you have the cats to man them up it really hurts RPO teams. Bc there is no free space. #425chat
A4: Probably a matchup question but if you're confident in your guys then light it up and make them get out of their comfort zone. Like everything, needs balance.
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A3: our base defense and how we align and our match 3 and 4 should us vs RPO. Again I also like man vs RPO and give different looks in the box. #425chat
A3: Quarters is safe to call. Again, move up front, don’t be predictable. Never ran it, but pattern matching may work also. Hot route is usually #2, may get bubble from #3 on trips. Heard from many coaches offense don’t throw much to #1 on RPOs from trips. #425chat
A5: I mentioned that in Q3 but I agree. Line movements can dictate the direction or idea behind an offense's play. And when you dictate the direction, you can dictate everything else. Definitely gotta execute though
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Q6: Not sure it changes as much as it simplifies. Less space = less to defend. Hard to run 3rd level RPO off of QB Counter w/ Jet action, a backside yes/no fade W/ frontside flood concept from the 2. I hope our O guys are saying: “@RunThePower .” @bwidger64#425chat
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@CoachKelleyCHHS, @CoachDiG, @RunThePower, @bwidger64
A4. That’s never THE answer to anything. It should always be an option and something you do but if u have better players , sure why not. Doesn’t matter anyway. And it “looks” good. #425chat
A4: yes I think there is a time for it. if you can run man then do it. But you can’t run it all the time. You need to mix in different things to keep offense in there hills. But at the same time there is somethin to playing man and bring heat and make a hs kid beat you. #425chat
A3: We are a one-high zone team, our go to answer vs 2x2 would be cloud to the back, vs 3x1 would be Cov 3 Mable. DE tackle the back if read, Hook to back plays QB to fit, Flat player latches 1st flat/under threat. Cov 1 would be our change up. #425chat
Bad eyes tell lies! Have to make the kids accountable for their phase. Defense controls where the ball goes. Make the kids believe that they control what the offense does- because they do #425chat
A4: Offenses will find out your game plan & pick you if running the same thing. All for man and cover 0, but we have to show something else or at least have several ways to disguise the coverage. Send pressure sometimes. Take risks. If not, death by 1000 paper cuts. #425chat
A5. Again , as a changeup, but only vs bigger offensive sets like 21 or 22 pers. Helps to move the DL but they can’t get washed down in run game. #425chat
A2: Not sure if we see much RPO at the Frosh level, but we played a lot of robber (as well as man) which I think takes care of a lot of RPO concepts. Would just tell conflict to try not to allow receiver inside of you to protect ILBs. #425chat
A4: It can be if everyone plays responsible. I think movement and threat of pressure would be more effective than repeatedly rolling the dice. #425chat
A3: Base. ID what their top RPOs are and drill responsibilities like option. Blitzes and 1-2 special coverages for change up, Buzz is one of my favorites.#425chat
A5: This is something I have personally done as a player. Very effective and allows guys to play fast. This is something we will implement in our base this Spring.
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A6: I’m firm on man inside the 15-10. Bringing some heat and being physical. No body is lined up in the EZ. Play downhill and dig deep to get a stop. #425chat
A5: Stunts help confuse blocking scheme & lead to a bad play. Conflict player could be Mike if displaced but I’d rather tell my corners to lock #1, Mike hvy on run/blitz game & safeties adjust to #2. More athletic players who have a better chance of breaking on the ball #425chat
A4: only as a change up. We aren’t a “blitz all night” team. Play our base and have our checks with 1-2 different looks. But if you play sound, fast and physical in your base you have a recipe for success.#425chat
A6: Our backs are against the wall! I’m thinking press man coverage, cover 0 and send heat. Take risks here. Heels are at goal line - no reason we are aligned in end zone pre snap. Force a quick throw and demand run game with more bodies in the box! #425chat
A5. Just base. I like line stunts when I know I can dictate what happens. I think RPO like option with line stunts at HS has too many negatives #425chat
In a quarters variation (1-removed for us), we can play a man concept where out safety has #2 vertical and outside. I like your thoughts on man out of 2-removed. #425chat
We avoid stunts against RPO teams and just play games with the QB pre-snap and OL. Tons of pinch and slant involved with our fronts and will occasionally flip to a wide nine on longer downs to get after the slower larger tackles. #425chat
