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Home Magazine Issues January 2008 Warren Central's Overload Blitz

Warren Central's Overload Blitz

For years the hallmark of the Warren Central defense has been an aggressive pressure mentality. For many years, most of that pressure was tied into man-to-man coverage. However, as the game has started to change and we are seeing fewer 21 personnel offenses, more shifting, more motioning, and more quarterbacks who are running threats as well as passing threats, we have evolved into a zone pressure defense. This has allowed us to keep our aggressive mentality while being adaptable to the multiple looks that we see from offenses in this day and age. We still believe that pressure wins games, but we also believe that we want eleven sets of eyes seeing and being able to tackle the football. Generally, we run a combination of over and under fronts with one-high or two-high safeties. One of the staples of our zone pressure from a two-high look is the overload blitz. We feel that the overload

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