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Football Scheme Insider: Understanding Creepers & Sim Pressures · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: All right, today we are talking to Michael Pettitt. He
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  Speaker 1: is one of our scheme insiders at Buckeye Insiders dot com.
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  Speaker 1: We have we have gotten a lot of feedback over
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  Speaker 1: I always like to say on these shows. So we
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  Speaker 1: have not won but two of them, and Michael is
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  Speaker 1: one of them. Who is here with me today and
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  Speaker 1: the last time we had you on the show. We're
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  Speaker 1: talking about cover two variations.
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  Speaker 2: This time.
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  Speaker 1: I want to talk about some other terms. And these
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  Speaker 1: are terms that you'll hear us talk about a bunch
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  Speaker 1: on these shows, but I don't know we've ever really
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  Speaker 1: sat down and just to define them. Do a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of maybe football one oh one kind of show
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  Speaker 1: here for you. We're gonna be talking about creepers and
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  Speaker 1: sim pressure. Those are terms that I think people have
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  Speaker 1: probably heard before. But Michael, you know, it feels like
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  Speaker 1: these are things that I always hear you talking about
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  Speaker 1: as being really good ways to potentially cause some confusion.
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  Speaker 1: But want to explain sort of what they are and
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  Speaker 1: how they're a little bit different.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So creepers and sim pressures. Uh, what they both
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  Speaker 2: have in common is they are defensive play calls where
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  Speaker 2: you are rushing one of your back seven defenders, so
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  Speaker 2: a linebacker, safety, even a corner. But in exchange for that,
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  Speaker 2: you're dropping a defensive lineman generally defensive end, and the coverage.
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  Speaker 2: So even though you're bringing a back seven player on
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  Speaker 2: a rush, you're still technically only rushing for and getting
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  Speaker 2: seven back into coverage.
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  Speaker 1: Now I know there. If you are someone who has
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  Speaker 1: played EA sports, the college football game, you're probably thinking, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: this sounds like a zone blitz. So is this Are
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  Speaker 1: these kind of just different variations of a zone blitz,
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  Speaker 1: because that's how it's sort of generally, I think was
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  Speaker 1: in the in those old games, was sort of labeled
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  Speaker 1: are these sort of different flavors of zone blitz? How
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  Speaker 1: does how does that all sort of fit together?
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  Speaker 2: So when I think of the term blitz or pressure,
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  Speaker 2: to me, that means five or more rushing the quarterback,
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  Speaker 2: creepers and simulated pressures, you're only rushing four. And furthermore,
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  Speaker 2: with creepers and simulated pressures, you can pair them with
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  Speaker 2: essentially any type of coverage. You can even pair them
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  Speaker 2: with man coverage. I'm going to show an option or
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  Speaker 2: an example of each today. One creeper, one simulated pressure.
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  Speaker 2: They both happen to be cover three, but you can
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  Speaker 2: pair them with essentially any type of coverage.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Well, then let's start with the creeper. What
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  Speaker 1: what does that? What does that look like? And I
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  Speaker 1: mean you said it's kind of the way you describe it,
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  Speaker 1: it sounds like they're kind of the same. So what
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  Speaker 1: sets a creeper apart?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so first with creepers, on what makes a creeper
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  Speaker 2: a creeper versus a simulated pressure is when you're running
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  Speaker 2: a creeper, you're in your base defensive set, so you
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  Speaker 2: know you're in your four down alignment or whatever, and
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  Speaker 2: you don't have all these linebackers walked up to the
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  Speaker 2: line of scrimmage or you're not really trying to give
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  Speaker 2: any confusing looks pre snap, and once the ball is
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  Speaker 2: snapped is when you have a back seven player. In
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  Speaker 2: this case here, you'll see it's the mike linebacker. I
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  Speaker 2: actually to get this clip, I had to go back
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  Speaker 2: to last season because Matt Patricia doesn't run very many creepers.
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  Speaker 2: Jim Knowles did not run very many either, but certainly
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  Speaker 2: more than Patricia. So this is actually a clip from
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  Speaker 2: Ohio State's national championship game against Notre Dame at the
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  Speaker 2: end of the twenty twenty fourth season. And so if
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  Speaker 2: you look at it, they're in a base defensive alignment
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  Speaker 2: to start, and Cody Simon, the linebacker here, is going
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  Speaker 2: to come on a blitz through the A gap, but
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  Speaker 2: they're in base alignment and with Cody Simon coming on
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  Speaker 2: that blitz, JT twoylol is actually dropping out to the flat,
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  Speaker 2: so it's still only a four man pressure and they
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  Speaker 2: are running Cover three behind, which is, you know, three
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  Speaker 2: deep defenders and four underneath his own defenders. So this
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  Speaker 2: is an example of a creeper. But like I said,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you can run a creeper with any type
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  Speaker 2: of coverage. It doesn't have to be Cover three. This
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  Speaker 2: is just the example we're looking at for this video.
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  Speaker 1: All right, So that's a creeper. So what makes a
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  Speaker 1: sim pressure different from a creeper?
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  Speaker 2: So a sim pressure which is short for simulated pressure.
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  Speaker 2: What makes it different is that you have five or
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  Speaker 2: more guys walked up on the line of scrimmage. So
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  Speaker 2: in this clip here again it's a Cover three simulated pressure,
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  Speaker 2: but you'll notice that Ohio State has five men up
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  Speaker 2: on the line of scrimmage because the linebacker are Rvel Reese,
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  Speaker 2: is walked up prior to the start of the snap,
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  Speaker 2: and once the ball is snapped, you've got the nickel
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  Speaker 2: Jermaine Matthews coming on in edge blitz from the field.
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  Speaker 2: But Arvel Reese, the walked up linebacker, is going to
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  Speaker 2: drop back into coverage, and so is Kenyata Jackson, the
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  Speaker 2: edge player down to the boundary there. So really you
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  Speaker 2: could run this as either a creeper or a simulated pressure.
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  Speaker 2: This could easily just turn into a creeper if rvel
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  Speaker 2: Reese was not walked up to the line of scrimmage,
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  Speaker 2: if he was at his normal you know, linebacker depth
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  Speaker 2: and was base alignment. So again, these things are very,
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  Speaker 2: very similar, and sometimes the difference can be very minuscule.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, essentially the difference is that on a simulated
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  Speaker 2: pressure you've got five or more guys walked up to
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  Speaker 2: the line of scrimmage before the ball is snapped.
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  Speaker 1: So this sounds like a really good way to create
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  Speaker 1: pressure but also create and really by doing it by
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  Speaker 1: create creating confused where you're not with you know, with
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  Speaker 1: the blitz if you're bringing you know the old Todd
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  Speaker 1: Grantham double a gap blitz, Like, yeah, that's great, you're
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  Speaker 1: bringing lots of pressure, but you're leaving yourself open sort
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  Speaker 1: of on the back end. This seems like you're sort
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  Speaker 1: of equating numbers in a way, so you're not necessarily
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  Speaker 1: leaving yourself vulnerable on the back end in quite the
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  Speaker 1: same way that you might be just numbers wise. So
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  Speaker 1: why what are the reasons if people don't just do
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  Speaker 1: this on on every different every you know, on every play,
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  Speaker 1: I assume there are some potential downsides here.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, sure, I mean what you said is exactly right.
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  Speaker 2: The big upside with creepers or simulated pressures is you
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  Speaker 2: create confusion. You change the picture post snap, but you're
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  Speaker 2: still only rushing for and you still have your seven
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  Speaker 2: back in coverage. So in a way, it's kind of like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, cautious aggression or controlled aggression. Now, the downsides
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  Speaker 2: with running these are that when you're dropping defensive ends,
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  Speaker 2: defensive linemen into coverage, uh, you know, naturally they're not
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  Speaker 2: going to be as good and as comfortable playing in
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  Speaker 2: space and playing his coverage as if you're blitzing the nickel.
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  Speaker 2: You're blitzing the nickel, you're dropping the defensive end and
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  Speaker 2: the coverage. Well, the nickel is probably not as good
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  Speaker 2: at rushing the pass or as the defensive end, and
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  Speaker 2: the defensive end is probably not as comfortable playing in
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  Speaker 2: coverage in space as the nickel. So yeah, that essentially
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  Speaker 2: is what I would say is the biggest downside. And
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  Speaker 2: you know, on top of that, it's also the ball
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  Speaker 2: skills aspect. Defensive linemen don't spend a lot of time
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  Speaker 2: and practice catching passes, working on their hands. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: there's definitely a downside to it.
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