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title: Adapting to Modern Formations and Motions with a Nickel Travel Defense - Josh Linam
description: As offensive coordinators continue to innovate and creates, defensive coaches must continue to learn and adapt.
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# [Adapting to Modern Formations and Motions with a Nickel Travel Defense - Josh Linam](https://www.glazierclinics.com/football-coach-resources/adapting-to-modern-formations-and-motions-with-a-nickel-travel-defense)

 Written by [Glazier Football](https://www.glazierclinics.com/football-coach-resources/author/glazier-football) | Jul 21, 2024 2:01:33 PM

As offensive coordinators continue to innovate and creates, defensive coaches must continue to learn and adapt. Josh Linam, Defensive Coordinator at Catawba College gives you a structured thinking process to defend modern formations and motions.

Coach Linam was a senior defensive analyst at Georgia Tech when he gave this clinic.

His entire presentation on [Modern Defense & Adjusting to Motions](https://production.glazierdrive.com/library/modern-defense-adjusting-to-motions) is available on Glazier Drive.<https://production.glazierdrive.com/library/modern-defense-adjusting-to-motions>

Modern Offense Looks Like:

- Unique formations and empty sets
- Creativity
- Tempo
- Putting the Defense in difficult positions and conflict
- Causing communication breakdowns
- Multiple personnel groupings
- Passing at an all-time high
- Use of vertical and horizontal spacing
- Personnel improvement
- Ball in playmakers' hands quickly
- 2nd and 3rd level RPOs

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