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Summary: The more compact the play is in football, the more the lineman will have to shorten their sets for each gap they cover as explained in this free coaching video.
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A gap and a Z-gap situation right there and each guy is being protected behind him by his partner, okay. Now another little different look is we’re going to move the linebacker okay three technique okay, now we have a linebacker. And now we call this a sort, sort we still have three guys but we don’t know how they’re going to attack. Alright, Doc’s got a three technique or two technique but it’s still his gap, so now he’s just basically going to two set or three set whatever he sees right here and the tackle is just set his gap. He doesn’t have to set for any depth or any width he just has to set for a five technique, so we don’t have the width that we had before we still have three gaps we’re just shortening our sets a little bit because everything’s compact in here okay.