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Post by CoachJoe on Mar 28, 2009 16:43:01 GMT -5
Why is everyone running either Cover 3 or Man coverage? Just simpler to teach? We just don't see much Cover 2 or Cover 4 around.
Is it going to lose steam with the threat of 4 verticals out of so many spread teams? Defense has to adjust, right?
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Post by coachhez on Mar 29, 2009 15:42:33 GMT -5
I think it is the safest coverage or at least thats what we feel. You theoretically always have three guys deep and you would rather give up 10-15 underneath, then a 45 yard bomb.
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Post by CoachJoe on Mar 29, 2009 20:01:18 GMT -5
But I can be pretty confident vs. Cover 3 that you're going to have a linebacker covering at least one of the flats. Also, I know that if I can flood a zone somewhere (like using 4 verticals), I can get someone open. It has as many limitations as any other coverage, I would think. I mean if we want to bend and not break, keep everything in front - run true Cover 4, right?
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Post by country on Apr 15, 2009 16:25:59 GMT -5
I think 4 verts has been around a long time and is not putting cov 3 out of business, Could be 3 orman free by the look of the structure, and Its easier tohit a 2 iron than 4 verts sometimes ;D
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Post by CoachJoe on Apr 15, 2009 19:33:12 GMT -5
Yeah you're right, no one's putting it out of business. I guess my point is, why is that the universal coverage? Seems to be this feeling among many coaches that, regardless of talent, we can at least run a Cover 3! I was just wondering if anyone had any real advantage to the coverage versus running a 2 or 4. I understand not everyone feels they have the athletes to run Man.
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Post by yoadrien on Apr 17, 2009 13:33:41 GMT -5
Because most HS teams don't have 11 solid defensive players - and when that is the case they try to get their best kids around the ball and end up putting weaker kids away from the ball - since the #1 goal of most teams is to stop the run - this ends up being kids that are not as good against the run - so - cover 3 is the easiest way to keep from relying on those kids for major run support = long way of saying it is the safest.
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Post by CoachJoe on Apr 17, 2009 18:19:56 GMT -5
Because most HS teams don't have 11 solid defensive players - and when that is the case they try to get their best kids around the ball and end up putting weaker kids away from the ball - since the #1 goal of most teams is to stop the run - this ends up being kids that are not as good against the run - so - cover 3 is the easiest way to keep from relying on those kids for major run support = long way of saying it is the safest. That's good reasoning, I'll buy that one. |
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Post by CRL on Apr 22, 2009 10:56:29 GMT -5
Their is one hidden reason, most coaches have no idea how to run multiple covers. I had a HC who said basically run Cov 3 "its what I ran in HS"... with the simple explanation "don´t let anyone get behind you"...."it takes to long to teach" Frankly he did not know s##t about coverage and refused to learn.
Clinic up on cover is a simple fix...their is so much info out there, if you run C3 teach pattern read and mix it with quarters...which will lead to C2 and Nickle.
IMHO
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Post by CoachJoe on Apr 23, 2009 8:51:32 GMT -5
That's another direction I'm leaning toward, CRL. Guys want an 8-man front, and its just easy/don't know any better than to drop 3 deep just in case - or run man coverage. I think we can get TOO creative with coverages, but you need some variety. If for nothing else than to give the DBs coach something to do besides backpedal drills.
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Post by card25 on Aug 19, 2009 18:55:41 GMT -5
That's what I was thinking, most high schools around my neck of the woods run 70-80+% of the time and putting 8 in the box is an easy, safe way to try and stop the run. It is really easy to teach as well.
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Post by CoachJoe on Aug 22, 2009 23:14:59 GMT -5
Funny this came back up, my new school has a new DC who is a cover 3 guy, but to the old staff Cover 3 seems like a curse word sometimes. We just finished a full scrimmage without running it once, first time in my life. (we're really a Quarters team, by the way, but they don't like that term much either)
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Post by Greg on Mar 11, 2012 5:55:07 GMT -5
We are a youth team with ages 12 and 13. We used to always run a 4-4 with a single high safety and we were a cover 3 team. We switched to the 4-3 this season and dropped our safeties alot closer to the LOS. We felt in a primary run league we could load up those safeties to read run off the edge quicker and also because the corners are not bailing deep but staying in the flats we got alot better edge run support. Our safetys are our studs who can get back deep 1/2 quickly and make alot of plays on the ball if a team has put it up. Our corners do a nice job funneling the #1 down to the safeties and we preach no one is allowed to release outside. My two cents.
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