Building on a Successful Defense: How to Dominate Offenses with a Multiple Defense

with Tim Martin,
Deer Park High School (TX) Defensive Coordinator & Linebacker Coach;
82% win percentage as Defensive Coordinator;
also coached at Dickinson and Pasadena Memorial

Learn a Base 4-3 Quarters Defense

• Learn the overall philosophy and goals of Deer Park Defense
• Learn the base alignments and rules of the 4-3 Defense
• Learn the communication and adjustments to different formations

Having a defense that can communicate and align effectively is fundamental to stopping offenses. Utilizing the 4-3 defense allows you to be simple yet multiple when you want to add to your current toolbox of defenses played. By having multiple structures for an opponent to prepare for, you can dictate what they do.

Using the different techniques of the defensive ends and Mike Linebacker, Coach Martin shows how you can change the numbers for the offense in the zone-read game. He also goes in-depth on the different ways for the outside linebackers to align to different wide receiver splits and how the safety play will adapt to their alignment.

Learn Defensive Line Movements and Coverages Out of a 4-3 Defense

• Learn Coach Martin's style of staying multiple within the 4-3 
• Learn different rush patterns and movements from the defensive line
• Learn multiple coverages out of the 4-3 for all different occasions

Coach Martin wants to give the offense the same picture before each snap while still keeping the offense guessing. Learn different ways that they are able to keep the same look while playing different coverages in the back end. Learn how they utilize different alignments and movements on the defensive line to not get caught in the same look all game long while keeping the offense honest. He is also able to utilize different stunts to change numbers in the zone-read game.

Learn to be Multiple with a 3 High Nickel Structure

By taking off a defensive lineman, Deer Park is easily able to get into a completely new structure that forces the offense to prepare for their multiplicity. Deer Park has smart kids so Coach Martin wants to utilize their ability to learn. To use this advantage, they have kept their original defensive structure as another package to add to the toolbox for gameday. 

• Learn the Alignment and rules in their 3 High Structure
• Learn multiple different coverages, stunts, and blitzes from their 3 High Safety Structure

Coach Martin also details their defensive philosophy and goals and how they use them to motivate the kids each week to have a successful defense. 

94 minutes.  2024.