Hey what's up everyone! We're crossing here and today we'll be
going over some basic coverage concepts I'm going to start the video right now
alright so whether it's through zoom meetings or just from people that have been reaching out
recently I've had a lot of people that have been wanting to talk about football coverages so I
thought I'd go over some basic concepts to be able to help you out as many of you guys know my dad's
actually a football coach and he actually called me because I made a recent video about coverages
and he was like hey just talk about the open uh concept with the safeties or close you know feel
concept with the safeties and be able to give some information off of that and I thought hey that's
a great idea let's go ahead and implement that so you know the the big thing here is you know
when you go to the line as a quarterback we want to be able to ask ourselves one simple question
is the middle field open or closed right middle of the field would be this part of the field
is it open or closed right and so what I did here is I just drew up coverage of cover two
uh type of look it could be cover two cover four and that's gonna be with the middle of the field
open right so you can see that you know in this position that the the middle of the field we have
the potential to be able to go after that which we immediately think either cover two cover four
obviously it could end up being covered to man so we'd have to look to see you know how everybody's
lined up and things like that maybe do some you know motion something to be able to see are
the linebackers gonna you know react is it actual main coverage or is it a zone coverage so middle
of the field open is going to be that safety being the safety is being spread open which makes it so
we immediately know that the flat defenders are typically going to be those corners right this is
going to just be again the basic concept so this I don't want to overwhelm you and think about you
know all the different things you could obviously do it doesn't mean the corners have to be the
flight defenders but typically when we have a open position and the safeties we think it's cover two
we know the corners are gonna end up being the flight defenders and this is going to be the
cruel defenders and middle of the field so that gives you cover two concept right and again it
makes it really easy if you could just go and look and identify is the middle field open middle of
the field closed and then from there go into okay probably cover two cover four what are my options
based off of the information that they are giving me then the other one would be if there ends up
being a safety in the middle right and then we'll just go in and then make it so it's here just to
make a little bit easier so if it's middle of the field is closed now we're thinking either
cover one or cover three right because now we're saying okay these are gonna end up probably being
the flight defenders right these are gonna be the cruel defenders this guy is the third this guy has
the third this guy is deep third right that's gonna be cover three if it's cover one then
that's man man man man safety is gonna be up over the top I'm going to put the panel up this video
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hop right back so that ends up being you know the breakdown when it just comes to immediately
identifying the safety and understanding you know are they going to be showing more of a cover one
cover three or more cover two cover four and after you know that information now you can start to
decipher zoner man right and then even if they go and there's no safety right zero safety over
here now we were thinking that there's going to be some type of you know extra guy that's going to be
blitzing right if they're kind of going here now that they're they're probably going to cover zero
and then even might even bring another guy here as well um so then it's going to end up being another
view of man so identifying the safeties and being able to come into the line of scrimmage and
quickly go through okay am I looking at cover one uh or am I looking at zone am I looking at a blitz
you know you could go and look at the safeties to be able to tell you a lot about what's going on
obviously being able to identify the flat defenders will help you out as well but that
should be how you go through from a mental perspective that should be the checklist you
go through safety's open middle of the field open middle field closed based off of that information
who are the flight defenders and cover two we're gonna have the flight defenders being the corners
and cover three the flight defenders are typically gonna be the outside linebackers cover four you
know there's not really flight defenders it'll be more of those assault linebackers but they're more
curled offenders cover four you're they're just trying to be able to defend you know a
deeper throw here okay I know I have too many guys here now but typically when we go through
a cover four you know it's going to be third and 15 or you know end of the game type of situation
so they're really trying to you know drop back so you're not going to really have a flat defender
in the case of going to cover four you're going to be looking more you know in terms of who's
defending the flats it's going to be more of these guys right um but their primary responsibility is
to go deeper so they're going to really give you the flats if you run any type of you know short
underneath route they're going to go in and defend more of a deeper type of route as you know that's
the job when they go through cover four so the big thing you know is really identifying cover two and
cover three flight defenders that's going to be typically what we're going to be going against
as a quarterback and being able to identify that and understand the responsibilities is something
that's really important right so I just was able to go over that all in you know one take so if I
was going and talking to this or with a coach or being able to describe it to you know an offensive
point or something like that uh it would be easy right and you want to be able to get to that point
as well as a quarterback or you could just easily go through hey this is cover two this is cover
three this is cover four this is man if it's man we're gonna do this if it's cover two we're gonna
do this and now you know the next stage from here would be okay if it's cover two how we're gonna be
able to beat cover two right something that we can go in and expose the open areas that's why their
little fields open right another open area against cover 2 is going to be you know this side pocket
so you want to be able to also understand how can you beat the different coverages now that we know
who the flight defenders are and now that we know if the middle of field's open mill field is closed
now I want to be able to understand who can we go through the cycle of being able to get the ball
to in order to make it so now we can start driving down the field make completions and
win football games right so that ends up being the primary job of a quarterback being able to make
sure the guy who is supposed to get the ball in every given play does get that ball right and in
order to do that we have to know what the defense has given us so then we can go and make the right
decisions there alright so as always guys if you like information go ahead and click that
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throw the ball further how to get the ball on your hands quicker how to improve your release I have
some videos down below to be able to help you out there but I I like said before you
know there's been a lot of quarterbacks that have been reaching out talking about you know can you
do something to help us in better understand the coverages and how to break down a defense and so
I thought I would do that for you just so then you could have this is a resource to be able to help
you as a quarterback because again now I play quarterback I want to be able to put you guys
in the best situation to be able to win games and I think being able to break it down as simple as
possible can make it so you can put yourself in the best position to succeed as a quarterback so
you know this it comes with the understanding that you already have some of the important
fundamentals of you know great throwing mechanics great decision making understanding the offense
those are obviously critical as a quarterback once you understand those now you can make sure
that you're able to understand what's going on with the defense and really be able to expose
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