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Everyone does this against Belfry. Belfry typically only has one SE so 9 in the box is basically automatic.. if you put a single CB and have a lone Safety that is 9 that by default will be in the box.

Truth be told the best defense against Belfry is a team who can emulate what Central does. Play your LB'ers at standard depth where they can read and react. Play your CB off several yards. Use your speed to shut down the outside and react quick inside after spacing out enough that linemen can't block multiple defenders. The issue is most teams don't have the speed or athletes to pull this off.

No offence but those were some different Belfry teams playing Central in those years, "and let's be honest", no team in Eastern Kentucky has the speed or caliber of players to emulate what Central does. I know for a fact that the coaches got the Pikeville game film and I'm not saying that what Pikeville did is the best way to play or beat Belfry but Pikeville did something right. For years Belfry has had the advantage on the line of scrimmage against 95% of the teams they play. Very few teams in this area can come at Belfry with a 3 or 4 man front and match up and Pikeville knew they couldn't either and that is why they had a 6 man front. Everybody and their brother knows that Belfry likes to run and that they will run 98% of the time. Pikeville was bringing more body's then Belfry could keep up with or block and Belfry had more size, depth and talent yet Pikeville dominated that game at the line and they were reeking havoc in the Belfry backfield. Belfry was so busy contending with the 6 lineman that they had no time or room to get much blocking down field. Pikeville had very little respect for the Belfry passing, (and this is nothing personal), but for good reason. I got to see the film of this game and it is painfully obvious that Belfry works on passing about as much as we do on kicking. I believe the LC coaches can take the blueprint gift that Pikeville gave em and make a few tweaks to fit their personnel and make this game respectable. I think we have a few fast athletic kids like #11 Dalton who can be a deep safety valve who can cover and run with any receiver or running back Belfry can throw at us on the big plays. I still don't think it will be enough to win and if we put the ball on the ground and get penalized about 50 times like we love to do then none of it will even matter anyway. If we come with 3 lineman and blitz the linebackers every other play and over pursue like we have all year this will be a running clock just like last year IMO.