2LD Defense - Gregory Double Wing

INSTALLATION: THE SCHEDULEThe following schedule is designed to get a bare-bones 2LD up and runningwithin two weeks, assuming 20 hours are available for defensive practice. (It iseven possible to do so in 5 days if four hours a day are available for defense.)Special attention is given to the drills Coach Thomson invented to teach theparticular skills involved in playing the 2LD. Key practices are preceded by aChalk Talk script which covers the concepts to be taught on the field.CHALK TALK BEFORE PRACTICE 1:(Hand out diagram on page 41 before chalk talk)Intro: "We'll teach you a new vocabulary, new positions, new drills. You arelearning something UNIQUE -- only a handful of teams in the country play thisdefense, and most offenses have never even HEARD of it, much less faced it."[Diagram 6-5 goal line defense. Demonstrate simplicity of concept: First level(linemen) attacks their gaps, second level (linebackers/backs) mirrors receivers.Show how the back of the End Zone forms an End Line behind which the offensecan’t operate -- it cuts down on offensive options.][Now move 6-5 to 50 yard line. Erase one nose guard, replace him with DS at+28. Draw in End Line at +18. Explain that in theory the functions of the 2LDand 6-5 are identical.][Define each position. First Level (1L): Nose and Tackles responsible for interior(A and B) gaps. Ends crash through off-tackle (C) gaps.][Second Level (2L): Len and Ron always take #1 receivers to each side offormation. Mike always takes #3 receiver. Sam aligns on strongside (as definedby game plan -- pre-season, always on TE) #2 receiver; Will takes weakside #2.Note 2L defenders may be called on to cover wide-outs AND stack in the corebehind 1L defender AND take on TE by themselves. They are LB/DB hybrids;there is room for all types of players in the 2L, but they had better be quick.][Deep Safety (DS): A new position, and one that requires an absolute LOVE ofhitting -- we will choose our DS after we see who can deliver a ferocious hit, getup, shake it off, and do it over and over again.][Defining the Offense: Show concepts of Core, line gaps, Backfield area, Area C,Area B, Area A, and the numbering of Mobile personnel. (Refer to top diagram,page 6, and diagram on page 41.)]43