This article was originally posted on the Glazier Coaching Blog.
As offensive coordinators continue to innovate and creates, defensive coaches must continue to learn and adapt. Josh Linam, Defensive Coordinator at Catawba College gives you a structured thinking process to defend modern formations and motions.
Coach Linam was a senior defensive analyst at Georgia Tech when he gave this clinic.
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Modern Offense Looks Like:
- Unique formations and empty sets
- Creativity
- Tempo
- Putting the Defense in difficult positions and conflict
- Causing communication breakdowns
- Multiple personnel groupings
- Passing at an all-time high
- Use of vertical and horizontal spacing
- Personnel improvement
- Ball in playmakers’ hands quickly
- 2nd and 3rd level RPOs