coach mountjoy

PROBABLY Cover 4 ("Quarters") would be the best mixture of soundness vs pass & option (ESPECIALLY vs 2x2 sets)! Played out of any 4-3 look!

Coach, what formations would you not play man to? Thanks

Coach Nick,

Appreciate your question and will do my best to answer you directly: There is not a formation that we do not align originally against in full man across the board! Now, lets be reasonable, you cannot stay in man all night as sooner or later something is going to happen, (DB falls down, one of their receivers is faster than any DB you have, etc.) and things such as that force you to go zone. However, I spent the last 11 years coaching at the level where we can recruit players and my prime requisite for DB's was always SPEED, SPEED, AND MORE SPEED!!! We do not play TURN AND RUN, WE PLAY BUMP AND RUN!!! Therefore, you have to have DB's who are not only fast, quick and talented, but that are also PHYSICAL.
ith receivers today bigger and stronger than ever before, you had better make sure you have the talent to play man or else forget it is my recommendation. To further answer your question, any double tight alignment with a WB calls for an 8 man front in order to be sound in your defense so you have to have at least 8 in the box, agreed? That allows for a cover three alignment (zone) in the secondary in most instances, at least in the PSL, so therefore we would not align in man in that scenario.

Coach Easton