POWERSPREAD

Venables Scheme History

• Agg Hybrid 4-3 1Gap ZB/Man Mix (Stoops) <OU>
• AGG 3-3 Hybrid Slash ZB Cover1 LockCB/Quarters Mix (Vic Koenning(Joe Lee Dunn)) <Clemson Early>   
• AGG 4-3 Hybrid SlashGap1 ZB Z/M/L MIX (Stoops/Koenning/Dunn) <Clemson Later>

’16 Auburn Game

Incredible Aggressive Variety though a an aggressive and passive aggressive power spread mix!

Glossary

• # – Cover Shells (Can be anywhere from 0-9 with 1-4 the standard; 5-9 exotic mixes)
• ##s (1) – First Number (Letter) = Cover Shell Initially Shown by the Defense (Look)
• ##s (2) – Second Number (Letter) = Cover Shell the Defense Shifts into either pre or post snap
• – – Dash used to denote a coverage shift if the first coverage look has a lot of numbers or letters involved
• ? – Not sure (play developed quicker than the scheme)
• <> – Innovative simple PS Brilliance described
• A – Struck thru letters indicate a Fake Blitz by that specific player.
• Agg – Aggressive (Capital letters=more aggressive)
• BlitzDrop! – A player or players actually initiating the blitz post snap then dropping into coverage.
• BS – Boundary Safety (Weakside)
• C – Cover Shell (ex- 1,2,3 – with no shift pre or post snap)
• D – Drop (The number of players dropping into pass coverage: ex-8D=8 men in coverage)
• Dime – Dime Back (Specifying a 6th DB on a Blitz)
• G – Gap (A player other not on the DLine lined up on the Line of Scrimmage)
• Gap – 1 Gap Defense (DLine occupying a Gap)
• H – Hybrid Defensive Look (In between 2 types of Defenses: 3-3, 4-3, 3-4 ,3-2, etc)
• HWDE – Weakside DE who is also a standup (2pt Stance) Hybrid DE
• Hybrid – Flexible front (ex-Standup DE = 4-3/3-4 Hybrid)
• L – Press Coverage (Lock) (A # following specifies a certain number of DBs are Locked onto a WR)
• LB – Linebacker (One or more LBs on a Blitz)
• M – Man on Man Coverage
• Mix – Variety with Blitz (Front) and/or Coverage (Back)
• NB – Nickel Back (Specifying a 5th DB on a Blitz)
• P – Psycho Defense (Very unpredictable front with many or all of the players on the Line of Scrimmage in 2pt Stance threatening to blitz)
• PREVENT – Prevent Defense (Deep Zone – Safe Defense used at end of games to keep all the action underneath and protect against a big score)
• Q – Quarters Coverage (An aggressive form of Cover 4 where the both safeties can attack the run and pass routes downhill similar to a Robber – can be innovated with different Cover Shell Schemes such as C3R)
• R – Robber (Usually one Safety dropping out of a deep cover shell to “rob” underneath routes)
• S – Safety
• Slash – DLine Slashing the Gaps
• SLB – Strongside LB (Field)
• Stunt – A criss cross pass rush either by the DLine or the LBs on a Blitz
• Tampa – Tampa 2 or innovation of the Tampa 2 (Cover 2 with MLB dropping as Deep Safety. Innovations include T3 where LB starts as Deep Safety and T5 or T7 with multiple Ss and LBs deep or dropping deep from close to Line of Scrimmage)
• U – Underneath Coverage (usually to specify man or press coverage underneath a Cover Shell)
• WLB – Weakside Linebacker (Boundary)
• ZB – Zone Blitz (Zone Coverage behind the Blitz – sometimes dropping DLineman into coverage: Player listed after ZB=the player dropping into coverage)
• Zone – Zone Coverage

List of Defensive Plays per Series

Coverage (Blitz)(Front)

One Parenthesis = No Blitz   /    Two Parenthesis = Blitz

1ST HALF

1. 20 (2-4), Q3 (4-2H), T3 (3-2H)
2. Q (4-3), C3LockMU (4-2), 21Man (NB)(3-2)
3. C2 (2-4), 23L1 (4-3H), 32Z NB(DimeZB)(2-3P), C1ML1-Q (LBsStunt)(4-2H), 6L13R LBG(4-2LBG), C6 NB(4-2), 23 (4-2H), 6L1M-2M (3-3H 8D), C6L1 (LBs)(4-2H), C3L2 (4-3H), C6L2M 3LBs(3-3)
4. C6 (2-5H), 23 (WLB/ZBDE)(4-3H), 2M Safeties(LBsStunt)(3-2)
5. C6(4-3H), 21M(2-5H), 1M (LBsStunt/ZBDE)(4-2H)

2ND HALF

1. C2R (2-4), 1ML (3-4), 23 (BS+WLB/ZB-MLB+SLB+NB)(3-3) <Classic Overload Weakside ZB w/ Strongside Look!>
2. C3 (3-4), 23 (2-5H), 21L (2-5), 23 (2-5), Q3R (4-3H)
3. 21 (4-2H), Q (2-4H), 2L2 (MLB+WLB)(4-3H), 1M (MLB)(3-5H), 2QL (4-2H), Q3RL (LBs)(4-2H), 13 (SLBs/ZBWLBs)(2-4Psycho1)<Overload OLine w/ Weak ZB>, 2-1 (4-3), 2Q (4-2H), 23LR (WLB)(2-4H), Q(4-3H), C6 (SLB?)(4-3H), 0M (5-4H)
4. C6 (4-3), 63 (3-4H), Q3 (4-2), Q3 (LBsStunt)(4-2H), C2 (2-4H), Q1M (MLB)(4-2H)
5. 26-1M (2-4H), 23 (LBs+S)(4-2), T3T2 (3-2), 20M LBsBlitzDrop!(4-2), 26 (2-5H), 6QL2 (4-3), 21L2 (NB/ZBHWDE)(4-2H), 21L1RM (4-2), 0M (2-5H),          0ML1 (LBs)(4-2), T3TQ LB(3-2), T3T7 (LB)(3-2)
6. 62 LBs(4-3H), C5 (2-5H), C5 (3-4), T32M LBs(3-2/3), C3 (4-3H) 
7. PREVENT – T3 (3-2), T3 (3-2), T3 (3-2), T3 (3-2), C8 (3-0)

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