This video will show how I call formations to multiply the number of alignments a defense needs to prepare for while keeping it simple for my players.
To follow up on the video, we often see formations carried in pairs. This will include a left and a right variation of that formation. However, to carry alignments such as sniffers, wings, or in-line tight ends, we have to add language that everybody must know while we're only tweaking one players alignment. Instead, still using only two words, giving the direction/strength tag more depth can help expand your alignments while removing language that your unaffected receivers need to know.
Tying this into the information from the video, my X receiver doesn't care if the formation is Dual Right, Dual Rent, Dual Rip, Dual Rod, or Dual Rocky. He hears Dual with an 'R/L' strength tag and can get lined up. Same thing for the Z receiver, with the exception of one set of formations not mentioned here. My F gets to hear the word Dual with an 'R/L' strength tag and has all the information he needs to get lined up. The Y, regardless of the formation, can listen to the strength tags and follow those rules to get lined up properly.
What this has done, as for what was shown in the video, is give my X, Z, and F four formations to learn. It has also given my Y only five 'formations' to learn. The combination of these two has presented me as the coach with an opportunity to show a defense 20 different alignments that we can work from.
As I elude to in the video, this is the easy part. The hard part, and what I spend most of my off-season doing, is designing rules for my concepts that will make them work within all of these alignments.
Nonetheless, this a great start to making an offense appear more complex than it really is.
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