Base Alignment of 4-2-5 Defense

The 4-2-5 Defense is extremely popular for a good reason. It is simple to install, easy to adapt to everything from the Wing-T and Double Wing to the Spread Offense, and offers a lot of room for different stunts, blitzes and coverages.

In Coaching Football’s 4-2-5 Defense eBook I touch on a lot of the variation you could use, but focus on the base 4-2-5 Defensive front, with coverages that are a natural fit for the 8-Man Front. In this video I have presented the base front – if you want to use the defense, you can learn more on the 4-2-5 on Football-Defense.com and also download my eBook, Coaching Football’s 4-2-5 Defense!

Transcript of the Base Alignment of the 4-2-5 video (absolutely unedited, sorry – maybe after the season)

Hi my name is Joe Daniel with footballdefense.com today we’re looking at the base alignment of the 4-2-5 defense. 4-2-5 defense is same thing as the 4-4 defense if you were familiar with that? We are going to have any real changes here there where difference of what we call between these two outside linebackers run the climb linebackers or the climb to the strong safety and the weak safety otherwise there is no real difference between the 4-2-5 and the 4-4 defense.

What we’re going to gets in strong side, from the strong side we’re going to have tackled and a strong 3 technique. We’re going to have End at 7 shades inside the tight End. If you got a very good End you technically sound you’re strong enough. You can also play to the head up six and let him read the tackle loose up. Where have the Mike linebacker in the 30 outside shade of the guard 5 yards off the ball.

This is where we play the gap strong safety 3-5-3 of the ML line of scrimmage he is your box player so he run and he’s going to make sure that he’s going to force to play back to the inside. On weak side he’s going to tackle of one technique it sure he knows. He’s going to handle that A gap.

Our Will linebacker he’s going to be, he’s going to be on 30 outside shade of that guard he’s going to handle the B gap to his sock. You can’t help him out a little bit if you move that tackle over to shift it to tackle over so you can play the 4-2-5 give the Mike a little more responsibility that the type of the players that you have. Our End is going to be here 50 outside shade of the weak side, take your best athlete you don’t need to know a lot and you don’t want to think too much.

Put him to the weak side and let them go. That’s a great spot to put somebody who just the great athlete special somebody who made a lot in true defense alignment may have been down handles split double teams but you can really run, put pressure on the passer. We’re going to cut this off and just let it go. The weak safety is your box player on the weak side.

The 4-2-5 defense is an 8 man front we talk about in the defense of insulation manual that you can get for free in footballdefense.com. It is an 8 man front which means that you choose to run except for cover 3 show behind it as your base. Whether you’re running a one high, main coverage or you’re running your cover 3 out of the one’s going to fit well with the 4-2-5. You can work things like a cover 2 or corners coverage in the 4-2-5 but it is not structurally setup for that.

This is the simplest thing which you can do, run a cover 3 you could still adjust to all of your formation when you get your doubles and your trips. Your teachings going to threatening for verticals, you just going to have to take some time to teach this guy how his colleagues carry in number 2 receiver out there. You have to teach this guy how to split to 2 receivers running verticals in his zone.

Those are techniques that you can teach because you have to teach the whole lot of alignment that you’re going to work out this simple phase 4-2-5. You can learn more how to 4-2-5 on http://www.425defense.com/

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