Updated 2016 Kansas High School kids

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Kansas players with an offer from a FBS team, 15:

Amani Bledsoe

Xavier Kelly

Isaiahh Loudermilk

Teven Jenkins

Isaiah Simmons

Mike McCoy

Ian Rudzik

Brock Monty

Mason Barta

Trey Georgie

Darraja Parnell

Korie Frausto

Tom Killilea

Price Morgan

Alex Wilson

Of the 15, 8 have P-5 offers. I think a couple others might be added to that P-5 list including Christian Jegen, Dawson Downing, Chris Schilling, and Mark Collins Jr among maybe a few others.

1-5-5 film (cont.)

Here is some more film of Bakersfield and their own version of the 1-5-5

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1-5-5 Defense

A few tips when running the 1-5-5/ gap attacking schemes:

1. Never over run the ball carrier. One thing that can be tricky when wanting your players to attack gaps and get in the backfield is that your player could run himself right out of the play. Always teach your players who you send to attack a certain gap, is to tackle anyone in the backfield who might have the ball. Your job is stop the play not run as fast as you can to get into the backfield and guess who has the ball. Tackle any potential ball carrier first come first serve.

2. Safeties who are the alley players can not allow the player to get to the perimeter. You need to funnel the play back to the LB’s and your STAR safety who is stemming down field.

3. When moving pre-snap do not get yourself out of position. If the Offense is a quick snap O than you need to make sure you are in the right position so you can do your job.

4. When blitzing make sure you go hard and are aggressive. I want you to shoot the gap not take up blockers/get blocked

5. Make sure you are taking proper angles when you are blitzing or containing the ball carrier. You always need to make sure you take a proper angle especially with STAR safety to make this defense work

1-5-5 Defense Film

This is film from CA Bakersfield Drillers. They run a version of the 1-5-5 defense and won a state title in CA in 2013 using it. They use less pre-snap movement with their LB’s than I would but that could be because of the offense they are playing. They show you can stop run heavy offenses like the Flexbone using the 1-5-5. Attack the offense don’t just sit back and try to read and react and you can have success.

Game Film

2015 Top Kids in Kansas

Tom Killilea OL OP, KS- clips
Chris Schilling FS OP, KS- clips
James Cosentino RB OP, KS- clips
Alex Blake WR OP, KS- clips
Angus Stoddart LB OP, KS- clips
Mark Collins CB OP, KS- clips

Bledsoe DL Lawrence, KS- clips
J.D Woods RB Lawrence, KS- clips
Price Morgan LB Lawrence, KS- clips
Nathan Koehn OL Lawrence, KS- clips

Austin Downing FB Eudora, KS- clips

Colton McCumber QB Stillwell, KS- clips
Jeff Gurley DE Stilwell, KS- clips
Jake Watkins OLB Stilwell, KS- clips

Isiah Simmons ATH Olathe, KS- clips
Michael Queen DL Olathe, KS- clips

Dawson Downing RB, Shawnee, KS- clips
Ben Hecht OL Shawnee, KS- clips
Christian Jegen WR Shawnee, KS- clips
Kaelin Key DL Shawnee, KS- clips
Rees Alena OLB Shawnee, KS- clips

Brock Monty QB Wichita, KS- clips
Korie Frausto QB Wichita, KS- clips
Will Honas LB Wichita, KS- clips
Noah Johnson OL Wichita, KS- clips
Creighton Sanders FS Wichita, KS- clips
Chaz Capps QB Wichita, KS- clips
Alex Bott WR Wichita, KS- clips

Jace Williams ATH Buhler, KS- clips

Ian Rudzik LB Ulysses, KS- clips

Caden Walters QB Dodge City, KS- clips

Mason Barta LB Holton, KS- clips

Scott Duerksen WR Hesston, KS- clips

Sherrick Rogers, WR Pittsburg, KS Hudl

Isaiahh Loudermilk  DE West Elk, KS Hudl

Blake Beckett RB Halstead, KS- clips

Cooper Griffith LB Scott City, KS- stats

Teven Jenkins OL Topeka, KS- clips

KU football

 KU football offense

Amoeba Defense

8A Illinois state champs run the Amoeba defense if you care to give it a look:

Attack the O

The 1-5-5 Defense

Adapt or die. Anything and everything adapts and evolves with time, and you, from the beginning of time you are left with two choices. Adapt or get left behind. Now most coaches (especially ones in Kansas) are not at the forefront of the evolution of football. Coaches typically go with what they know, what they have grown up with, and what they have practiced. They use archaic stats to judge how good teams are like total defense and scoring defense etc. They use false statements like “you need to establish the run” as a basis of how they build their teams and run them. But why? Why do most coaches just go with the status quo instead of experimenting to try to find an edge? Why do coaches try to fit kids into a system they may not be able to run, instead of fitting a system onto kids that they can run? Just look Emory & Henry college a DIII school that implements an offense that divides linemen and receivers into 3 groups of 3.

Coaches in Kansas for the majority run the flexbone offense, and it makes no sense. People argue its easy to run and you dont have to gameplan offensively and blah blah blah. They fault back to this simplistic offense because of time restraints and the thought they can just plug kids in without having to teach much. In my opinon though is it not harder to run block than to pass block? Run blocking requires strength, quickness, intelligence, and a certain nasty attitude. Pass blocking there is no driving your man back 5 yards, no trying to block a smaller quicker man in space. Just stay in front of your man and cut block if you have to. Coaches try to fit a square peg into a round hole all the time instead of trying to find a new peg.

Now same thing can be said about defense. There is 1 single dominant defensive scheme ran nation wide and its the 4-3. 3-4, 4-2-5, and 3-3 stack are the other ones that round out the popular ones but nothing comes close to the 4-3. The same philosophy in the 4-3 is used with the flexbone. Assignment sound football and wait for your opponent to make a mistake. But that is not how modern football is played. Its about being sound in your assignments while attacking your opponents not waiting around for them to make a mistake.

So in comes the attacking 1-5-5 amoeba defense. A flexible attacking defense that disrupts old blocking schemes by not declaring what the defense will do or where they will be attacking from. It gives defensive coordinators the ultimate ability to adjust on the fly to what opposing coaches are doing. It puts speed on the field and the ability to read and react to everything all while looking like a disorganized mess to the offense. It allows your defense not to be gap fixed, zone fixed, or man fixed. SO here is a quick little preview before more in depth

Typically the 1 down linemen is in a 1-tech or a 0. The “1” down linemen doesn’t even need to be in a 3 point stance necessarily either, its just easier to described saying 1-5-5 as opposed to 0-6-5

The second level of the D the linebackers are the thing that make this defense go. Preferably wrestler types that dont mind running full speed into O linemen and gaps. You can use a simple numbering system to tell them who is blitzing ala 34 attack would mean that the players you labeled 3 and 4 would be 2 of the guys you blitz. Now you can take your linebackers and marry them to gaps with your 1 down linemen to make it simpler for them to know where to attack but  that kind of defeats the purpose of the defense.

The safeties and corners are going to be in man coverage the majority of the time. Id use a 3 high safety look with my middle safety (STAR) is about 7 yards off the ball and stems hard, sees pass and will look for the running back out of the backfield or start dropping to help with 4 verticals. The other two safeties are maned up in a 4 wide set and would have C gap help in a more old school un-innovative offense

will put up more later