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Building the whole airplane from safeties

Building the whole airplane from safeties

Our look at the 3-1-7 "Dollar" defensive sub-package the floods the field with versatile safeties continues with a look at a few players testing the method and how it could work in practice.

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There’s still a little more to be said on our recent topic here at America’s War Game about whether safeties are the ultimate defenders and essentially “why not build the whole airplane out of them?”

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Today we’re going to talk about the biggest challenge to a defense trying to sub-package their way to thwarting offense as well as a few specific teams and players who are, or should be, getting utilized in this sort of scheme.

That’s it, that’s my intro, let’s get to it.

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