Even Front Defensive Schemes for Youth Football
I finally finished my Defensive playbook for my 5th grade pee wee football team. After reading and watching Dave Cisar’s Winning Football Series and Coach Reed’s Winning Youth Football book, I focused on the 6-2 Wide, 4-4 Stack and Gap 8 defensive schemes for my 2008 little league tackle team. I am not going to go into a lot of assignment detail today but here are diagrams of the base defensive formations.
6-2 Wide Defense – Diagram
4-4 Stack Defense – Diagram
Gap 8 Defense Diagram
You can see how easy the transition to each even front defense will be for our youth football players. I plan on using the 6-2 Wide as our main defensive formation. We will move to the 4-4 on long yardage situations and the GAP 8 or GAM on short yardage situations and or when we are inside the 10 yard line.
Over the next several weeks, I will outline the assignments for each defense. If you have any history with these defenses leave me a comment. Just click on the comments button below this post. Thanks!
Good luck this season and remember, Play for Fun and Winning is Funner!
need to know pass coverages , i like the defenses i see, thanks
sounds good excpet how old are they? 10? 4-4 can be tough to play for little guys.
nice diagrams, how did you make them?
yes they are 10. I created my diagrams in MS Word. Use the drawing tool. Its pretty good.
I use the 6-2 D I am going to teach the 4 4 this week. I have an athletic team this year and think I could benefit. How do u feel about blitzing the OL’s and how often/when. They are fast and aggressive. thanks
I actually like blitzing at the youth level. We blitz about 50% of the time. We have several blitz packages that we use. I will post in the next few days.
We use the 6-2 wide D with a blitz package that was very effective on the inside and off tackle early on with larger, more talented opposition; when they adjusted and went outside with sweeps, counters, reverses, and an outside passing attack we got hurt. We’re undersized but extremely quick with 4 kids that can bring it and stay under control. I’m considering of a 4-4 to get all of our best athletes on the field and protect our outside. What do you think? Thanks