GIF Breakdown: Redskins’ Joe Barry’ 4-2-5 Over vs 3 WR Sets and 3-4 Under Revisited

[thehbrwhammer]

http://nflbreakdowns.com/redskins-joe-barry-defense/

 

Here is my latest film breakdown. During the bye week and up to this point I was curious as to the actual defensive schemes the Redskins were running under new defensive coordinator Joe Barry. Earlier this summer I pointed out that we were realistically switching to the 3-4 Under.

 

Basically, I wanted to confirm that, and upon watching more of the game tape I started noticing a trend against 11-personnel (3WR sets) where the Redskins would put Murphy and Kerrigan down in the 3-point stance and run 4-2-5 Over where the nose tackle sits in the weakside 1-tech and our strongside 5-tech (Hatcher, usually) jumps inside in the strongside 3-tech position for pass rushing through the B-gap.

 

Behind this defensive front that looked great the first couple of weeks (ahhh, I remember those days ), we started crumbling a part because of poor strong safety play and lack of pressure which allowed other teams to feast on our porous/injured secondary.

 

Let me know if you have any questions!

[ExoDus84]

I particularly like Barry's 5-5-1 formations.

 

That's where his schemes allow an NFL worst 5.51 yards per carry. Picking up where he left off with the Lions in '08.

[shakinaiken]

This pains me, but i almost miss Hazlett... At least he was aggressive. 

[thehbrwhammer]

This pains me, but i almost miss Hazlett... At least he was aggressive. 

 

Haslett was aggressive? lol. We had a run defense and relied on two players to get pressure (Orakpo - Kerrigan). That's it. It was literally the opposite of aggression.

[Koolblue13]

This pains me, but i almost miss Hazlett... At least he was aggressive.

yeah, watching 9 guys not sack the QB was great.

Btw, love this. Read it twice today. Thank you.

[shakinaiken]

yeah, watching 9 guys not sack the QB was great.

Btw, love this. Read it twice today. Thank you.

 

In my defense, I used the word "almost" which indicates I don't quite miss Haz yet. 

Haslett was aggressive? lol. We had a run defense and relied on two players to get pressure (Orakpo - Kerrigan). That's it. It was literally the opposite of aggression.

 

Haslett defenses blitzed more often, which implies aggression. However, "aggression" is not synonymous with "effective." Haslett era defense was putrid.  

[thehbrwhammer]

Haslett defenses blitzed more often, which implies aggression. However, "aggression" is not synonymous with "effective." Haslett era defense was putrid.  

 

Very true. It was kind of a necessity though since in that defense (3-4 Okie) the dline were two-gapping and block-reading. Just by nature of playing different defenses we shouldn't need to blitz as frequently under Barry to get the same pass rush.... Unfortunately the cost is our run defense.