? for coaches who teach corners the inside technique

Coach,
If we are in cover 3 we melt sit and look through to qb for 3 step etc. 3 step we are aggressive anything past three step we would melt with the rec. Cover 2 we invite him to go inside but will be very physical with him. Man we actually step inside to take it away.
PGOLLA

Coach,
We melt with it thinking the highest % pass is the post. We will come off on any out routes by number 2 if we are in cover 3 rule: wide as the widest deep as the deepest
PGOLLA

Coach,
Right or wrong here is what we do. After talking to a lot of coaches our conclusion about where to play our corner is different then I was taught and what most people do. We will shade him inside to head up. Slant, post any routes coming inside are high % passes. The out route etc... are long passes that we will get to in a hurry. after talking with coaches that play more aggressive inside they have said they have been a lot more successful. Im not saying we totally focus on the inside. We picked 3 hitch routes this year, in the play-off's one to win the game. We work hard on all routes but do not want to give high percentage pass up. We work hard on post corner and do a great job against that route. We do not jump the inside route, just melt with it to jump it.......
PGOLLA

I think it is important whether you are playing zone or man technique, you have to start in a head up position on the receiver so that you don't let the QB and REC know what you are playing. On the snap of the ball, we will either play inside (man) or outside (zone) technique on the receiver. There are two terms very important that we use. First, when we are man coverage, we will weave inside and play inside techinque (hip to hip). Secondly, when we play zone coverage we will weave outside keeping 21 players in front of us and play (Over the top). The reason we play (hip to hip) in man coverage is usually we dont have the help over the top. This is a great discussion. Thank yall for all the ideas. And I hope our philosphy here at Westwood HIgh School in Austin, Texas can help you.

Normally in zone coverage we will use outside technique presnap to be able to see the receiver in our peripheral vision. We will weave to head up at the snap. An exception to this would be if the receiver aligns with a wide split. Teach your corners to pay attention to the splits. Wide split will often mean the ball is coming inside, Lesser split means an outside route. If the receiver is split out wider, we will allow the corners to move to an inside technique, although it becomes tougher for the corner to locate the receiver on a go or fade route this way. Also, if we start giving up a lot of slants and hitches on the outside, we don't stay in zone, we will usually move to a press technique on the outside with Cover 2 behind it.