Man Free

There are MANY WAYS to play a MAN/FREE. One of the LBers can be used in a NUMBER of ways.

Each PARTICULAR MAN/FREE team has it's own variations!

The BASIC WEAKNESSES of MOST Cover 1's:

1. Crossing routes (when WE play Cover 1 - we have a LBer FREE from any man responsiblity just to deal with THIS);

2. Contain on perimeter plays;

3. Screens;

4. LBers on Backs (mismatch)

Motion your slot to make sure it's man.........Have your X ( weakside rec) push crack or run skinny post and block FS.

Run option weak.........Get ready for your band to play your fight song.....

FS cheats weak..align in trips.......slot push cracks FS, wing arcs on a soft flat defender ( may not have anyone to block ) pitch off EMOL......

Coach Easton:



That was always our 2 pt. play. Always basing it on the alignment of the FS. We'd check out if we had two outside the tackle...or maybe not...we'd pull and log a squeezing 5 tech and still run it.

That play alone kept most people from playing man, I don't know why passing teams that face man don't utalize option more.

We played Florida A & M one year and they would go cov. 2 man when they had you 3rd and 15+. We purposely had two consecutive illegal procedure plays to get to 3rd and 15+. I kid you not!

We motioned the slot rec from the flexbone across the formation and ran the option weak. QB Gross ran 49 yds. untouched.

Deac14,

So then we are pitching off the CB correct?

Did you Coach or play at Ga. Southern?

TIA!

I will say one thing in FAVOR of Cover 1. If you play a team that as a GOOD "3 level vertical stretch" package - you can be in no better coverage.

Cover 1 is one of three coverages we play, & is at is best vs. the LONG to INTERMEDIATE to SHORT passing game! In MOST zones - there is an "alley" between the deep zones & underneath zones that can be exploited with the "3 level vertical stretch" routes!

Is their an email address I can reach Deac14 at?

TIA!

DEAC,

You make a very cogent point when you tell coaches who allow their CB 's to peek into the backfield for clue to what is coming: I'm a man cover guy and always will be. I too, played QB, certainly do not have your playing credentials by any means, but played long enough to know that I would rather throw against any zone going than face man cover guys who can play! A zone scheme allows your QB to locate the void that is always created by a DB's own movement and throw into it, away from the defender. That guy who can play man is going to lock on your receiver like white on rice and live in his back pocket all night long with as little separation as possible. The hardest thing you can teach a receiver is to get off the jam, as most will agree, and when you divert your eyes for that instant to peek, your giving a good receiver just time enough to avoid your jam!!! Now, he is off to the races free released into the pattern. THAT IS THE REASON I ALWAYS PREACH BUMP AND RUN, NOT TURN AND RUN!!! Now, if you don't have the personnel to play bump and run, that is another story. But, if you do, jam the heck out of 'em will always be my motto!

Coach Easton-TIGER ONE