How do you stop a wing-t offense?

Answer 1

Everybody has different ideas on how to stop a wing-T. I coached against a team that ran it and ran it well every year. The first year I tried just staying in our "base" defense which was a 4-3-4 and told our guys to tackle everything that came their way. We found ourselves getting outnumbered at the point of attack. The next year we used a wide tackle 6 defense where you play 6 defensive lineman, don't cover the center and play the tackles on the outside should of the offensive tackles. We played one linebacker over the center, brought the corners up like glorified outside linebackers and if they had a split on their side they played bump and run man-to-man coverage, and followed if the split headed for a reverse. We played 2 safeties who were responsible for the middle of the field should they try and leak out a tight end or back for a pass, and they had to play monster run support. We lined our defensive guards over the offensive guards...nose to nose and would slant with them one way or the other on every play. Lastly, we told our kids to tackle everybody that came their way and not get caught looking for the ball, and told our ends to stay home, get a huge chunk of the tight ends just to knock them off the ball and screw up the timing a little bit should it be a pass play, and follow plays that went away from them from behind before getting into pursuit angles to prevent anything coming back at them. We had great success with it, we found that it totally screwed up the other teams blocking schemes once we got the lead they started to panic as the wing-T is not the best offense to try and come from behind with. I used that defense for 2 years, both of which produced wins for us. The next season I went with a defense called the 44 Ghost. Here is a link to a great page that talks about this defense vs. the wing T. http://www.the-endzone.net/ghost_4-4.doc

I decided that I needed to find a defense that I would use all the time rather than putting in a special defense just for 1 team, this allowed my kids to get really comfortable with the defense and they could play on instinct rather than having to think. This defense served us well and we went 3-0 with it over the next 3 years.

The biggest thing to remember in dealing with the wing T or any offense that relies on misdirection & trickery is no matter what defense you are running you have to be disciplined in your approach, your key reads and your assignments. If you get caught looking for the ball it will run by you before you can find it.

Answer 2

a 3-3-5 you have 3 lineman 3 line backers and 5 dbacks. The corners play a cover 3 the safety go's strong side and the other two are like over gloried outside linebackers they check reverses and can blitz or play flats but a blitz works best on wing t

Answer 3

depending on exactly how many receivers they've got, you should play either a 3-3-5, or else a 4-4. have your guys stay in their gaps and don't bite on every handoff or fake. the offense gets big gains by having guys forget their assignments, that's when you have the 40 or 50 yard runs. make sure your linemen don't get pushed out their gaps, and then bring the safeties up to watch stretchs and runs outside the tackles. then have the linebackers watch the gaps between the linemen, the key is to have everyone coming out of the backfield accounted for, but to not have all your defenders chasing one guy. one-on-one tackling is key, because you can't have guys missing open field tackles

Answer 4

Go with a 5-2. Only two linebacks and five on the defensive line.

Answer 5

Defending The Wing T

Answer 6

wing t is running offense but every man in the box