The 3-Safety Defense has become one of the most popular and trendy defense across high school and college football over the past decade, and it presents real problems for an offensive play caller.
So how exactly do you attack it? What are the weaknesses? And where do you start?
Today’s email is taken directly from our latest release: The Play Caller’s Guide: An Encyclopedia for Attacking Modern Defenses
Attacking the 3-High Safety Defense
One way we will employ Ace Sets is through the use of our trap game. In particular, we wish to utilize the influence trap to make sure we create maximum discomfort for the defense’s 4i players that are assigned to the B gaps. As before, the offense can employ very simple RPOs as a part of the play so that the quarterback has simple and efficient throws that are easy “yes or no” type throws to the edge of the defense.
The influence in this play is conducted by the offensive tackle who will pull and kick out the Sam Linebacker, switching responsibilities with the tight end who will block the Mike Linebacker. We add an ‘Erase’ tag onto the concept so the back side tight end can add to
the front side of the play.
The tight end’s responsibility is what we call an “as needed” block. We pull him to account for whatever secondary player the defense has allocated to work into the box to support the run. We know that the 3-High Safety Defense is well-versed in the need to support their light box and they will add a player to the box when the offense triggers them to do so. This is sort of an insurance policy for the offense to add a player to the front side to account for the defense’s innate countermeasures.
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