Position of the Lineman in the 6-2 Defense in Football

Video Transcript

"Hi, this is Sean Hobson for Expert Village. What we want to talk about right now is when running a 6-2 defense; we want to talk about the positioning of your linemen. Now this is going to be a little bit different, because in this set you're actually going to be bringing a line backer up to join your line. You're also going to have a new position which is called the nose guard. And what the nose guard?s job is is to line up right here across from the center, and as soon as the ball is snapped, this guy is usually going to be down in a four point stance. He's going to come crashing across and try to disturb the play. Then you're going to have two defensive tackles on either side of the nose guard. Then we're going to bring a linebacker up to balance out the inside of the line, and to give us a little bit of speed up here. And then of course you always have your defensive ends on the outside. You can see that right now we've got it shifted a little to this side, so we can bring the play in from the outside. You've got a defensive end on this side. So defensive end, tackle, nose guard, linebacker, defensive tackle and a defensive end on this side. And that's our six man front in the 6-2."