Traditional 5-2 Defense in Short Yardage Situations

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It's kind of a semantics thing in reality, a 5-2 is just a 3-4 with less athletic OLBs that they refer to as ends. The alignment in a standard 5-2 is pretty much the same alignment as a base 3-4 in terms of where each guy is lining up gap wise. We actually did something similar last year at times and people called it a 5-2 but it was really just a 3-4 with personnel the general public considered heavier. 



This was them running it last year, guys are standing up which I would call it a 3-4 but a lot of people referred to it as a 5-2. Add in the fact the nose was playing more of a 1, or 2i, technique and I just wouldn't consider it a 5-2.