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Adjusting To Your TalentSt. Bernard\'s ISO Versus the 4-4 Cover 3© More from this issue At St. Bernard’s Catholic School our football program was able to win a North Coast Section Championship in the 2003 season. Our coaching staff was blessed to work with some gifted young men. As the head football coach, I feel that at this level of play a coach must design the entire team’s systems (Offense, Defense, Specialties) around the talents and abilities of the players he has to work with. I find it very unproductive to coach a student-athlete to play a certain style of football that simply does not suite him.
Going into the 2003 season our coaching staff met and evaluated
our strengths and weaknesses. We knew that our offensive line would
be big, strong, and quick.
We would be able to control the line of scrimmage. We had a couple of good running
backs returning which made for a potential situation where we would have a run
heavy oriented attack. This, in turn, would make our play action pass very effective.
Early in the season we focused on running an isolation play vs. a 4-4 Cover 3
look that sent the fullback on the outside backer with the tail following him
(See Diagram 1). That play worked well for us but we had to make a few position
changes mid-season that changed the dynamic of this play. Our new tight end was
a better receiver than a blocker. We insisted on maintaining the “smashmouth” philosophy
but we had to alter our isolation play. Our solution was that we split the Y
out into a slot set (See Diagram 2). This spread the defense and brought the
original person being insolated (OSB) out of the box. We now isolated the inside
backer. What we were hoping for was that the defense would adjust into a 4-3
(See Diagram 3) which would open up the inside isolation to our advantage.
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