Iowa State Football: Jon Heacock Defense (Origins, History, and Film Study)

Twitter: @tcpfootball Learn about the 3-3 Defense run by Jon Heacock with Matt Campbell's Iowa State Cyclones football program. We'll talk about how Heacock switched from the 4-3 defense (which he'd run at Youngstown State, Kent State, Indiana, Purdue, and Toledo) to the 3-3 in order to defend the Air Raid and other Spread offenses of the Big-12. We'll see how he uses 8-man coverages (especially versions of the Tampa-2) and hyper-light boxes to get as many defenders into coverage as possible, while using walked-out defenders as force players on the edge. We'll also learn about the Robber Safety position that Heacock calls the Star, before seeing how these coverages can be susceptible to downfield concepts like 4-Verticals in the passing game.