Diagram 1. Flex: Okie Sword Wk 2 Diagram 2. Flex: Okie Sword Wk 3 Diagram 3. 2x2: o. Sword Wk 2 (cont.) Diagram 4. 2x2: O. Sword Wk 3 (cont.) Diagram 5. Diagram 6. On behalf of Coach Watson Brown and our defensive coaches Rick Christophel (DL), Shawn Raney (DB) and George Pugh (DB) we are privileged to share with you some of our defensive philosophy. In this article we will show some of our ideas in our zone blitz package. Because offensives are so complex, there are advantages to blitzing with a two or three deep shell. Keeping the QB guessing as to what coverage is being played is always an advantage for the defense. Being able to run two different coverages behind the same blitz with the same pre-snap look will make the read tougher for an offense. Our Okie package consists of three DL, three LB’s and five DB’s. Our alignment is to the field and as follows: The SE always aligns
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