Robber Coverage - Coach Ward

I know a few teams it’s funny I just left the AFCA and we were talking, we had a, if your ever down at the AFCA and you’re a high school coach I’ll give you a little hint, every Monday first Monday most of the defensive back coaches we have the color of DB and symposium it’s kind of impromptu talk football talk technique, talk a little bit of schemes so if your down that way next year it will be something to be alert of, you’ll see a gathering of secondary coaches a phenomenal thing I found the number of different schools are running this coverage so it’s kind of caught on so we call it robber coverage its real simple okay it’s what I call a count coverage and what I mean by that is the corners stay on their side it’s not a match coverage where they would go over and match up on the receive. And I’ll leave this up here for a while I’m talking through but these are the base rules. The corner backs basically you’re man to man on number one your line man can be inside press or inside catch based on split and when we are talking press technique and your teaching press technique it’s important that you let your corners know that it’s a little more inside leverage then it would be up the field so if we were up the filed an pressing we would be outside out and inside out or foot to crotch. Down here in the red zone we’re going to line outside shoulder to the receivers inside shoulder so we are definitely denying the inside release by a lineman okay if you’re playing catch technique the rule is you have to difference from the goal line so if we were on the twelve yard line and our corners were lined inside and on the six yard line and as they get tighter obviously you get tighter once you get inside the five yard line and your basically going to turn and press any way but it’s a way that if you have a five disadvantage meaning big receiver versus a corner you can play a catch technique to help with some of those things to use your quickness. Again the footwork for the corner is the same it would be in press so you’re going to be in a square stance and you’re gonna be working horizontally I call it step from the place or you might here call shuffle mirror but you’re not in the split stance and your definitely by no means back down to versus the dead side or tight end you can go anywhere from five by three to four by three alignment you want to make sure you can leverage the formation okay the base rules for the corners are that any run to your man to man your secondary run support if you’re in a tight end side you are forced it is called what I call shuffle and attach technique. Versus a tight end on run away your closing down on the hips and your gonna cut that player the task responsibilities ok man to man on receiver eliminate the slants and the fades ok by no means and really the biggest coaching point that I give these guys is when a receiver sees you and heavy inside alignment their gonna try to outside stem you to get you to move your feet and to beat you back across the face so the coaching point that I use to I tell our guys first of all your hands first meaning literally I say reach out and grab them. Ok and what that does it puts the corner in trail position and that’s where we want to be in red zone coverage we want too be underneath the routes and between the receiver and the ball ok hands first also allows them to be more aggressive you go with two hands down here that’s not a problem and what we tell them is to be patient on outside release and patient away and urgent to your leathers so if I’m getting an outside release I don’t want to be in a big hurry to try to beat him across the face because then he’ll come back underneath me and slant will be wide and open. If he’s running a slant I want to be heavy inside and urgent with my feet flatten out the route and stay in front of the slant not worried really worried about how flow goes on you can be a little more aggressive another rule is your getting a shallow route and its coming hard and inside away as you start to squeeze you have the ability to squeeze it towards zone defender and you can see that as we go any cut split or tight split meaning if the balls on a hash and you getting a receiver close to the hash we will go outside leverage on that alignment. Coaching points, if thread or face on the normal split you can work outside to cut it off before push the receiver back outside always be aware your gonna gain help somewhere and its usually gonna be you have a squeeze route close to the hash to get it ok if you have a super wide split and you know you can get your receiver to that hash mark landmark you gotta play it hard inside and you gotta cut off Get more videos like this with a Glazier Clinic Season Pass! Sign up at GlazierClinics.com! Robber Coverage - Coach Ward