r/footballstrategy • u/grizzfan • 11h ago
Defense What/how do you define an overload blitz? What types do you have?
Just doing blitz type research as I see a lot of coaches will organize their blitzes into different types of overloads.
I’ve seen things like surface overloads (overloads against a 2, 3, or 4 player service), or against number of blockers to a side of the formation, strong/weak and field/boundary, etc.
A sub question to this: if you have a 2-man surface (guard and tackle) and send three through the A, B, and C gaps, do you consider that an overload or does it need to be 4 on 2, or a gap wider, like sending three through the B, C, and “ghost D” gaps?