During Fairbanks-Bullough 3-4 defense week we brought you some notes from a coaching clinic where Dean Pees gave some pointers on the Patriots defense. Today I found some additional notes and it looks like BB spoke there as well, so forgive me since we’re in the middle of Erhardt-Perkins offense week but I had to share.
Here’s what Belichick laid out…
Bill Belichick Head Coach New England Patriots
Patriot Football
Organization
- Sign going into the football offices at Gillette Stadium – Do Your Job
- Create a division of labor
- Put together an organization to become the best
- Tell staff what to do and say in situations
- Be out in front of the direction of the team
- Meets with captains every week because it’s a more manageable group to deal with
- Allow players to make some decisions, create a connection to program
- Group discipline and rewards-Works both ways
Setting up a D
- Must be able to defend what you are going to see
- Define how you will defend a basic set of problems
- Regardless of your personnel the 3-4 is more flexible
- Originally made it easier to sign and draft players but is changing as more teams adapt 3-4
- Maintain as much coverage flexibility as possible in order to take away best player
- Establish the front 7 to handle running game
- Running game force is OLB
- Set Edge
- Force inside
- DL two gap responsible, if no two gap must add secondary into run game D
- If LB is being committed to one gap then secondary comes down
- Quarters (cover 4) is #1 coverage, Cover 3 is #2.