Installing Today’s Hybrid Pistol Offense Run & Pass from Top to Bottom
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How would you handle a slant & wheel by the flanker and Te in cover 3? Do you teach your corner to turn the slant loose and look for the wheel? Or do you do some type of pattern read where the corner stays with the slant and have your flat player run with the wheel?
Also, I have been reading the book by Jeff Walker and he talks about his cover 3 safety doing some type of shuffle, weave as his initial movement. This is a comprise between a bounce and backpedal. Can anyone explain what he's talking about? We would like our fs to get to the alley quickly so I am interested in something besides a backpedal...aside from robber what do you guys teach?
In our 53 we let the flanker go ahead and run his slant right into our OLB. And the CB will play his 1/3 like normal. Sometimes we drop the strong side DE and have picked off some slants with our DE. I've always said playbooks are handy but go with your gut feeling. If you have the talent and speed get a pen and paper out and design some schemes of your own. I do it quite a bit. I'll get a base from a playbook and modify it to fit my teams strengths. I know I haven't helped you out alot but that's all we would do.
What would you do with a z that takes your corner all the way to within a yd or so from the boundary with the ball between the hashes? Obviously you can't defend it by letting the receiver run it right into your OLB because all my guy is going to do is beat the CB on the inside slant and cut it up on a skinny post. Your OLB is going to have to walk out a great deal or the quick slant will kill you as decribed above. Your Safety is going to have to roll over if he runs the skinny post and we can prevent that by influencing him from the backside. If you drop your DE, our QB is going to pump the z and pull it down and run it right where your DE just vacated from. Any way you cut it, your going to end up in a bind. Just my opinion, as always.
Coach Easton
Coach Easton
J.C. EASTON<BR>HEAD COACH<BR>GA TIGERS FOOTBALL<BR>PROFESSIONAL MINOR LEAGUE
I agree it would be tough to do. But you can find a weakness in every defense. Up until this point nobody has done that on us. Because we have put intense pressure on the QB that the routes must be fast.
We have both the corner and FS read#2 in cover 3. If #2 comes outside, while #1 goes inside, the corner will stay on top of #1 but will not let #2 cross is face. Once #2 starts to cross the corner's face, the corner will take him on the wheel.The OLB will start outside when he sees the TE going to the flat (we have te OLB read #2). When he sees the FL coming inside, he will try to get under the FL or blow him up. Yeah, I know what you're thinking, you'll complete it before the OLB gets there; but your FL is going to take some major hits.
If our OLB's are good athletes, we will let them run with the wheel.
Your right, he is going to take a hit every now and then but if you have the right guy at flanker that doesn't happen that much. Not trying to be a wise guy, just suggesting things you may look for if you come up against a team that has real speed at receiver spots and are well coached in their offense. The real point I was trying to make is simply the fact that you need to have a back up plan if you get this look one night and your guys have not yet faced it. Just a suggestion, as always.
Coach Easton
J.C. EASTON<BR>HEAD COACH<BR>GA TIGERS FOOTBALL<BR>PROFESSIONAL MINOR LEAGUE
If the Z is spreadwide and run a slant the D needs to run some tight coverage. The corner takes away the inside release and this will minimize the effectiveness of the slant.
Yes, coach, that is my point exactly. But, if the CB aligns in man press on the inside to take away the slant, it is no longer cover #3 which is a zone coverage and the original post was questioning about cover #3 only, as I understood it. With the help being a single safety over the top as the #2 receiver will occupy the SS/OLB (flat defender) the Z seeing man coverage, will run a fade if he knows what he is doing and read the FS rolling over. If he can beat him on the fade, he stays with that route. If he feels the FS has an angle on him he can stop in the hole and be satisfied with a nice gain. BUT, we are going to influence the FS FROM THE BACKSIDE WITH A COMPLIMNETARY ROUTE THAT WILL PREVENT HIM FROM ROLLING OVER WITHOUT LETTING THE BACKSIDE RECEIVER COME WIDE OPEN. Chief has a plan, but he will have to have a great OLB in order not to get beat more often than not, IMO.
Coach Easton
J.C. EASTON<BR>HEAD COACH<BR>GA TIGERS FOOTBALL<BR>PROFESSIONAL MINOR LEAGUE
ADDED THOUGHT: If the TE is well coached, as he runs the flat he will read the #1 on the fade. If he stays with the fade, the TE will NOT CONTINUE ON THE WHEEL AS YOU WOULD BE RUNNING TWO RECEIVERS INTO THE SAME AREA, AGREED? TE would then blow the top off the coverage by running a broken arrow. YOU NOW HAVE THE FS IN A TWO WAY BIND FROM BACKSIDE AND FRONTSIDE AND THE DESIRED ONE ON ONE WITH THE STRONG CORNER. QB JUST TAKES HIS PICK OF THE UNCOVERED DEEP RECEIVER, WHICH IS THE WISE CHOICE OR #1 RUNNING THE FADE.
Coach Easton
J.C. EASTON<BR>HEAD COACH<BR>GA TIGERS FOOTBALL<BR>PROFESSIONAL MINOR LEAGUE
Our C would come up and defend 1 on the hitch and our SS (who is in the flat) will get into the hip pocket of the TE and follow him on the wheel. In our Cov 3 against this look (with 2 being the TE) we feel that play, the wheel, puts our SS automatically on that TE on this SPECIFIC play.
Now the FS will read #2 (the TE) and also be of help.