Untitled - Fast and Furious Football

46 FOOTBAI,L COACHING STRA.TEGIES
FIGURE 8 Oropb.ck play-action pass
shat€gies of our passing attack. I've fornd it exciting
and a rebirth, of sorts, to undergo the
chang€ of run coach to pass coach. This switch
can stimulate your creativity and heighten the
interest ofplayers and fans.
-1983 Prcceed,inSs. Coach Su@ney wN head @aoh at nas'! stata Univeftitr.
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ldentifying Fronts and Goverages
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A young quarte$ack's inhoduction to the wortd
olaIlacking defensp" is uften a rude awakcning.
He's sometimes ov€rwhelmed by all the coach is
askinghimto learn: 2-deep, 3-deep, combo, blitz,
man-under, drop end, rush end, gap control,
nickel, brackets, and on and on.
With the name of today's defensive game being
multiplicity and disguise of both front and
coverage, a coach must find the deht starting
pointftomwhich to help a quarterback devel op a
basis of understanding of fronts, coverages, and
thei subsequent interrelati on. Therc was a time
rvhen a coach could simply start with the concept
ofodd sc!Fn- and eighl-man Fronrs and lhFir rplat€d
covelages. However, the increased usage of
ni€kel and €ven dime pemonnel has allbut shattered
those basic t€aching constructs.
Wherc does one start One starts by understanding
that rarely does a front and a coverage
design exist without an interrelation to ole arother.
Fronts and coverages are almost always
rclated, complementing one another to help produce
a coordinated defensi ve package of deep covemge,
curl{lat zone coverage, undemeath cover,
ag€, penmeter support, and gap contrcl fronts.
As a result, an understanding of the inter-relation
offronts to coverages and coverages to ftonts
can help produce what are fairly reliable indicatom
in the €ffort to attack defenses with run, option,
and pass packages.
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