To Macho and Back with Stephen F. Austin

To start with I would like to thank American Football Monthly for providing coaches with valuable articles and ideas from some of the top coaches in the game. I am honored to submit this article and I hope it will live up to the standard of previous publications. The subject of this article “To Macho and Back with S.F.A.” is a brief overview of how we call, adjust and stem out of our Double Eagle or “Bear” package as well as some of the stunts and movements we deploy out of this front. The reason we call it Macho is because we mug up the Middle Backer in the weak B gap to get to this particular front. Getting in and out of Macho from an “Up G” or balanced eight man front has become a very effective part of our aggressive eight man front package here at Stephen F. Austin One of the biggest advantages to this package is that it takes the play calling out of the hands of an