44 vs all passing team

IF you are a Cover 3 team - play the 5 under 3 deep scheme that the great Dolphins teams of Don Shula ran.

Here is how WE do it from a 4-2-5:

--------------------R-Q

-------O---------------------------O
O---------------O-O-C-O-O------------O
---------------E----T--T-----E
------ R---------S-------M-------W

-C---------------------------------------C
----------------------F

ENDS = Outside pass rush

L/DT (1 tech) = Inside pass rush.

R/DT = (Shaded Nose) quick engage & drop to middle hook

R & W = FLAT ZONES (these are DB's)

S & M = CURL ZONES

SECONDARY = 3 DEEP

IF you want to PRESS straight across - you had best do this from MAN - not Cover 3.

Suggest "COVER 1 MAN/FREE" from the 4-2-5. You MATCH UP to the offense & have no problem adjusting. "Cover 1" is our most VERSATILE coverage. Our kids LIKE to play man, & we have a saying (used by many NFL defensive coaches over the years) that: "REAL MEN PLAY MAN"!!!!!!!

IF you care to email me at: billmountjoy@yahoo.com - I can send you drawings of the "Cover 1" adjustments. "Cover 1" is the best coverage in football against the vertical stretches, & also great vs horizontal stretches (the way we play it we aren't too worried about "meshes").


PS: IF you want to "press" - we also refer to this as "bump & run":

The important thing to remember is if you put a corner up in man-to-man bump and run defense, you are really taking him out of any run reaction until the ball carrier crosses the line of scrimmage and he senses or is blocked or hears a "run" call from the safety.

Line the DB up at an angle to the inside of the receiver with his inside foot up and his outside foot back and in the center of the receiver’s body facing more to the sideline. In this position, facing the outside of the field, his primary concern and main focus has to be on running with the receiver.

Coach,

Bill and I agree on most things, but I do not want to ever sit off in cover one (what I call "loose man") as that affords the receiver of a free release into his pattern even if he aligns on the inside at whatever depth he is at. I may be wrong but I think Bill sits his guys off 7-9 yds if memory serves correct.

I will always maintain that the hardest thing you can teach a receiver is to get off the jam. Why let him have free access into the pattern when all you have to do is jam him and destroy the TIMING of the play that will force the QB to read further into his progression of receivers?

Now, if you don't have the personnel to play man straight across the board and jam the receivers, that is another matter and you will be forced to play it differently. Just my opinion as always.

Coach Easton-TIGER ONE

In my post above on "Cover 1" - I say that you can ALSO play "press" (bump & run) out of Cover 1.

I would mix "press" (B & R) with "off man" & mix it up. ALSO: You can have a GREAT blitz package out of "Cover 1" (OR "Cover 0") & STILL have bump & run with defenders.

I can send our "Cover 1" (with & without "press" (B & R), as well as the blitz package out of "Cover 1" (AND the MAX BLITZ out of "TIGERCAT COVER 0" in which you bring one more than they can block).

billmountjoy@yahoo.com