re: Pardon my ignorance but can somebody educate me

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I'm at LSU working as an equipment manager trainee getting some experience before I get to a high school when I graduate.

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congrats man. I wish you the best of luck in your career. maybe one day we might line up against each other or hell, even be on the same staff.

Whats your email addy?

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That is one of the single most important aspect of a D-Line's job. Reading the O-Line will tell you the play is. How they block, how they line up, what their stance looks like, where their heads are turned. All keys.

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Didn't you love when you would be playing end and the tackle would go to will or sam and you'd squeeze him into the guard/blow up the trap/make the rb bite his mouthpiece in half

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Whiteness of their knuckles...

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true, the splits were my favorite key, if you learned one thing, it was that the splits NEVER lied

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Wrong. A few years ago, the fad was the play a 22 look ( two 2 techs and 2 5s) vs. the spread look, with no tight, it made sense in terms of stopping traps, and such, ive also seen that same look run against the wing t ( aka flex bone for you NCAA 11 fans)

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I was speaking in terms of DT's. I've only rarely seen a d tackle lined up that far out. what your talking about is with two DT's and two DE's

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I was speaking in terms of DT's. I've only rarely seen a d tackle lined up that far out. what your talking about is with two DT's and two DE's

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Yea, that would be kinda crazy, the wildest ive seen was a 33 look and there was some serious wrap stunts going on out of that (thanks butch stoker). But that is just a QB sneak waiting to happen

I smashed the fricking shite out of Kenny Hilliard on one play. One of the best plays I ever made. Then he went to gain 200+ yards and 3 touchdowns.

a 33 look out of a 4 lineman set(against a 2 te offensive set or 1 Te, 1 FB, 1 Rb),strong side tackle slant in(lets say strong right, so he slants into the 3 gap), end crashes down into 5. weakside dt slants out into 4, weakside de slants into 6. weakside Lb fills backside A while the strong lineback runs wide for contain and the middle reads and fills the hole for the cut back

Noseguards and inside guys will want to be a little heavier but not fat. I guess 6'1" and about 290 would be ideal.

As for ends, those guys need to be slimmer and quicker. I guess 6'2" 275 would be an general size.

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Is there a difference in the type of player/size/speed etc that you want to play each technique?

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Yes. If your running a 3 man front, you want to have 3 guys who are powerful, with low center of gravities and guys who command double teams in order to keep them off your LBs. so you would need a Glenn Dorsey in the middle, with 2 Drake Nevis as the 3 techs.

If you run 4 lineman, then you need to tackles who are strong enough to hold their own in the middle. quick with a good center of gravity and powerful legs for leverage. Defensive ends are smaller and quicker(and by smaller i mean in the 250-275 range for college). They need to be quick with good feet in order to rush the passer and beat the offensive tackles. In rare cases, you get a Julius Pepper who is quick as lightning and can overpower a tackle. Playing d-line is mostly technique. Come out low, stay low. you can be Suh but if you have bad technique, and stand straight up, you will get blown off the ball everytime.

Where are you from originally?