How to Stunt to Sack the Quarterback

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Hi, this is Sean Hobson, for Expert Village. One of the fun things you can do with linebackers is called to stunt or to blitz. That means we'll take our linebackers and put them on an all out run through the line to try to stop the play in the backfield with the running back or to try to get to a quarterback. You have to make your decision. When you call blitz, you're selling this guy out. He no longer has his gap responsibilities. He no longer has to read the play and react to the play. He has one job. That job is to go as hard as he possibly can through the gap and try to get to that quarterback and make a stop in the backfield. The first thing we want to talk about is the stunt. The stunt is showing, when you have a defensive lineman down in his stance, you're going to bring your linebackers up and show that they're going to blitz. They're going to come up real quick. Sometimes you can stunt and drop them back. Sometimes you stunt them and then blitz them. The first thing we'll show is what it looks like to stunt up into the holes (video demo). They're going to stunt up, they're going to be ready, and then they can return back. The next thing is called a stunt into a blitz (video demo). That's a stunt to a blitz. The last thing we have is the all out blitz. That means the linebackers make the decision to go all out through (video demo). They are going as hard as they can to get into the backfield. Most of the time you will not blitz both linebackers. You'll either blitz up the middle, or you'll blitz from the right, or you'll blitz from the left. You don't want to waste all those guys if they don't get to the quarterback. That's what you call a stunt and a blitz.

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