If you follow the site, you know I love breaking down using Dick LeBeau’s playbook and applying it to this current Keith Butler defense. We’ll do that again today with Butler/LeBeau’s Bluff Stack Tear Coverage.
The basic principle behind the coverage is a blitz-heavy pre-snap look before bluffing and bailing into a Cover 2 look. Give the quarterback a different look than he’s expecting.
This is from LeBeau’s 2002 playbook, drawing it up out of his base 4-3 defense. In the example I’ll show from Monday night, the Steelers are running it out of their 2-4-5 nickel personnel.