End first, Tackle off his hip
Playside End and playside Tackle. • End → B, Tackle → C
Say it like this
Two guys trade places. End goes inside first, tackle loops around behind him.
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What happens
Playside End slants down first, crossing the Guard's face into the B-gap. The playside Tackle follows right off the End's hip, crossing the Tackle's face into the C-gap. Backside Tackle holds A, backside End holds C. Often tagged with a Mike A-gap blitz behind it.
Coverage behind any blitz — the one rule to teach: whoever is left uncovered by the blitzer's departure rotates to fill his zone. If a Safety blitzes the edge, the other deep defender (or a rotating corner) takes the deep middle third and the underneath defenders redistribute to 3-under. If Mike blitzes an A-gap, the backside ILB or a rotating DB takes the vacated hook-curl. One rule applied consistently beats memorizing a different rotation per blitz.
