Pass Defending Inside The Red Zone

[yurirdgz 1]

I was wondering how you coaches where setting up your defense in point conversions or inside a “no running zone”. If your ruling is different then, how are you pass defending inside the red zone?

In my case I break our 2-1-2 defense into a quarter defense and one guy on the rush, I put my best guys at the corners since Qb usually rolls out. I would like to know if some of you are doing something deferent.

[Orange 26]

We always go man to man in short yardage and goalline situations.

[Coach Rob 26]

Same as Orange, we'll go M2M and send our best rusher, especially if they have a pass only situation.

[yurirdgz 1]

Won´t you players get couth up on bumps and crashes playing M2M?, I mean playing field is dramatically reduced and many offenses play mesh routs in this area, ourselves have two or three offensive mesh plays to attack defenses in short yardage.

[Johnp2 21]

We don't have "no rush zones", but I think we need to work on (stopping extra-points). Our defense is designed to stop the big play, thus we like to give up 2-4 yards up front and then swarm. Obviously with XP attempts this can be a problem (our XPs are five yards). Last season I think we gave up only three TDs on defense for the season, but I'm pretty sure all three XPs were converted.

In our first game this season, we gave up two TDs, but were able to stop both XPs. One we intercepted in the end zone, and on the other one the ball carrier dove across the goal line (which is a penalty).

We play Zone on XPs, mainly because we never play M2M, so the players are not accustomed to playing M2M. What we are looking to do this season is play a 2-2-2 on XP, cheating the LBs up close (our base is 3-2-1).