[Harry Doyle]

A few blown assignments I saw as a casual fan.

1. 2 times Central's RB reverses field and nobody for Belfry has contain on the edge. That is basic fundamental football and a true blown assignment.

2. Central runs play action and the entire Belfry secondary is setting flatfooted nobody runs with the WR and the score an easy TD. Another blown assignment.

3. .Central goes to a 4 WR set the inside rec. runs up the hash the safety does not run with him. Guess what a TD is scored.

Those are blown assignments in little league.

1. True. Fact is, it happens at the high school level. As a matter of fact, it will happen today in one of the NFL games.

2. Depending on how well Central ran their play action and Belfry's defensive reads are unknown. If Belfry's LB's and even some of their DB's read linemen, and Central's O-line really sold out the run, mixed with their speed on the edge, that's a deadly combo. Peyton Manning makes a living on play action. Why? A couple reasons, but one of those being that his offensive line makes it look like a run better than anybody in football.

3. If they were in a cover 2 zone look, a cover 2 zone w/ man principals, man under 2 deep or even a cover 4 look, then yes, that's a blown assignment. However, and I can't remember, but if Central caught Belfry in Cov. 3 look v.s 4 wide then that puts the free safety in a bind if Central ran four verticle/go routes. The free safety could have jumped the other slot receiver, and they might have hit the other going down the field untouched. 4 verticle routes is just a bit hard to cover in a Cov. 3 look (especially if the team you are playing have guys that can outrun yours backwards).


Point is, sounds to me like Belfry just needs to get those young kids better. They don't need to change their defensive schemes. No matter what your defense or offense for that matter, things look a lot better when you have a bunch of juniors/seniors out there, instead of sophomores with some juniors.