Converting the College 4-2-5 to an Efficient High School Defense - Zone and Man Blitzing

Pressure is where a high school 4-2-5 can get itself in trouble, and Coach Justin Conyers spends this session making sure it does not. He builds the zone blitz package out of the Hokie Weak formation, then names every pressure — Seahawk, Miami, Alaska and Bama families — and assigns individual responsibility on each so the coverage behind the blitz is never an afterthought. The man blitz half runs on a clean terminology system: numbers for strong side pressure, letters for weak side, gap responsibility above all.

What you'll learn

• Why the zone blitz package comes out of the Hokie Weak formation
• The Seahawk Cube and Seahawk Deuce zone blitzes with individual responsibilities
• Seahawk Cube against trips, plus the Seahawk Twist Cube and Seahawk Twist Deuce
• The Miami Cube, Miami Deuce and the Miami Cube trips look
• The Alaska family: Alaska Inside Blitz, Alaska Cube, Alaska Deuce/Cover 2, Alaska Twist Cube and Alaska Twist Deuce
• The Bama Cube and Bama Deuce zone blitzes
• Man blitz terminology: numbers for strong side blitzes, letters for weak side
• Man blitzes including the Hokie Weak Side Man Blitz, Stacked Wide Able A and Hokie Weak Able A Twist
• Outside man blitzes from both the strong and weak safeties
• The Stacked Delta Man blitz, Hokie D Man Blitz and Stacked Tight Superman Man Blitz
• Drills for teaching zone and man blitzes, plus the triangle technique and switching coverages

Who it's for

High school defensive coordinators running a 4-2-5 who want a named, organized pressure package, and secondary coaches who need the coverage rules that travel with each blitz.

About the coach

Justin Conyers served as defensive coordinator at Nansemond-Suffolk Academy, a Virginia state champion, and became head coach at Green Run High School in Virginia Beach. His 4-2-5 draws on principles from TCU and Virginia Tech.

The third session of Coach Conyers's five-part 4-2-5 series.