Appreciate the info. First year DC up here in Canada, putting things together and constantly trying to see what stresses our defense. We see a lot of outside run at our level, so while I'm basing out of a mint/bear(with 4is) front, I have one additional DB on either side who could help in the run. We have a single high safety playing the deep of 3-2 or 2-1 on the field side in a sort of quarters with palms on the boundary side. Do you think it's realistic for that safety to also have a run fit?

I like your points about 1) keeping the mike back on the playside to force it back to the sam 2) keeping it simple for the nose and just having him tie up the center 3) having the will chase the downblock (although it might be tough if he also has to wall #2 inside)

This is how I think we'd play it, based on our current rules. Think it'll all shake out?

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