How to Defend Skilled Quarterbacks in Dime Defense

"Hi I'm Billy Kidd, here at Expert Village and we're going to talk about the dime defense. Another negative to the nickel, is you know, you can get into if you have a skilled quarterback right here, you can get into quarterback draws. The quarterback sets up; we've already designed the play up front, the blocking schemes up front to where however we want to do it. We want to block him here, here, bring him around the seal and then your quarterback's right up here. You spread all your defensive backs out and you've got nothing but clear lane here if you can break the line of scrimmage here with your quarterback. And that's if it's a skilled quarterback. If he's not a skilled quarterback, but your running, you're a passing team, but they have some pretty good defensive backs and they've been, you've not had a lot of success getting receptions thrown, then what you may want to do, even if maybe their playing a cover one and they've got a safety up here, you still have the capability of doing several things here."