Can You Make Defensive Adjustments?
Can you get on the grease board and make defensive adjustments against any formation that the offense might throw at you? What about shifts, motions and trades? Do you have those handled? Talking to you high school football coach and you too college football coach.
Your rules are consistent right? You don’t have one rule for this formation and a complete different set of rules if the offense comes out in a different personnel grouping or formation type do you?
I asked a veteran Texas high school coach about 10 years ago what FirstDown PlayBook could do to help high school football coaches the most. Without a moment of pause, he blurted out “Defensive Adjustments”. He continued to explain that if you can just get the kids in the right spots, they will normally make it work. If you do not adjust to the formation, the rest is usually bad from that point.
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This is why the FirstDown PlayBook defensive adjustments section was created on that very day. We take a total of five different defensive fronts and we fit them up against over 27 different formations. Then we play five different coverages behind these defensive fronts.
Do the math. For every FirstDown PlayBook high school and college defense we fit that defense up vs 135 different formations. Once you find the defense that you want to play, you can then edit it to fit your personnel. Defensive adjustments are at the core of what we do.
Take a look at what coverages we play behind every front. Promise you it is a 5 second edit from what you play. FirstDown PlayBook is not trying to coach your high school football team. We are trying to help you coach it better and more efficiently.
Defensive Adjustments With These Coverages
Vs Cover 1: Middle Of The Field Closed. Man Free Coverage
Cover 2: Two Deep Safeties-Five Underneath
Vs Cover 3: Middle of the field closed zone with strong or weak Safety roll.
Cover 4: Four deep quarters coverage. Defenders read #2 in the formation.
Vs Cover 6: Quarters to passing strength. 2 Deep coverage on the other side.
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FirstDown PlayBook can help you with that regardless of if you are looking for a reference tool or a teaching tool. Let us help you teach better and in a fraction of the time. Helping you make defensive adjustments is a good start. Check this video out and you will understand.
