From: kdelgado@loligo.cc.fsu.edu (Kevin Delgado)
Subject: Re: Prevent Defense
Keywords: washington's defense, a question
Organization: Florida State University Computing Center
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 92 21:05:06 GMT


On the the subject of defense, I was wondering what defense Washington uses
exactly. I have only seen one or two Washington games on TV, and then I was
only really half watching...not paying too much attention to details. People
keep saying that they use an eight man front, I was wondering if that was
just a 3-4/4-3 defense with the LB's brought up on the line, or if it was the
"2 layer defense" recently devised (1991 I think) to stop the high powered
modern offenses. I'll diagram the 4-3/3-4 defense and the two-layer and maybe
some net-expert can tell me exactly which UW uses.

3-4/4-3:


                                   (TB)

                                   (QB)
             (WR)                                       (WR)
         (WR)              (OT)(OG)(C) (OG)(OT)             (WR)
LOS:--------------------------------------------------------------------------
         (CB)                 (DE)(DT)(DT)(DE)              (CB)
                          (OLB)   (ILB)      (OLB)
                (S)                                   (S)

This is a basic 4-3 alignment, I would assume if Wash. used this they just
bring up the LB's and one of the safeties.


"two-layer":


                                  (TB)
 
                                  (QB)
           (WR)                                        (WR)
       (WR)               (OT)(OG)(C)(OG)(OT)              (WR)
LOS:--------------------------------------------------------------------------
       (CB)               (DE)(DT)(NG)(DT)(DE)             (CB)
                      (LB)       (LB)         (LB)




                                 (DS) {deep safety, lined up 20yrds deep}

In this particular defense the LB's do a sort of mirroring oof offensive 
players. The two outside LB's are actually supposed to cover the two inside
recievers (I know they are mislabeled...should be X,Y,Z,and H...but who cares)
and the middle LB has rb responsibilites. The safety is lined up real deep and
unlike normal safety play, never runs backwards...instead always running 
forward to the ball. This is supposed to make it so that no play will ever go
over 25 yards or so...assuming the man-man defenders blow their coverage. The
five man line is for putting extra pressure on the QB...needless to say (esp
since a lot of offensive line shave trouble blocking just a three man rush
these days. IF any one of the linemen are a dominant type (like say...a 
Russel Maryland, or Reggie White) and draw double coverage from the offense,
the advantages are obvious. Get two linemen like that and watch out.

Anyway, I used the Ace-back set for the offense just as an example...esp. 
since that offense is so popular now...not to mention difficult to stop.
If there is someone out there who knows exactly what Wash. is using on their
defensive set, let me know. BTW, a better explaination of the two layer D
can be found in either the Jan. of Feb. 1991 (can't remember which off hand)
issue of _Scholastic Coach_ magazine. It also details who the zone package of
the two layer. It's interesting to note that the two layer D is based on the 
goal line D...go figure.

Kevin.

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