[00:00:00] Welcome back coaches. This is the Football Coaching Podcast. I'm Daniel Chamberlain, co-host here with Joe Daniel, as always. What's up, coach? I didn't forget the intro this week. Nailed it. So if you guys are listening, sometimes we screw that up. Never done it. And last week in listening to me completely forget it, blanked, 100% Drew Blake.

We are closing in on the end of season. In fact, when this comes out we will have one game left. 'Cause as we're recording we have two, but it'll be a week before it comes out. So we've gotten pretty lucky with... Not, I, I, I guess it's luck. When you get your schedule, you don't know who's gonna be good or bad, right?

Sure. Like, we, we know some of the guys are gonna be really good 'cause they're always good. But we got the gauntlet over with early in district play, and now we have got some guys that are just down. They just, if it's, they don't have the Jimmys and Joes or whatever. Unfortunately for them they're just down, and so we get some time to kinda rehab some guys and- [00:01:00] Maybe get some reps for some guys that normally wouldn't, some game speed reps.

So looking forward to it. We still gotta go out and handle business, gotta go out and execute, but I think we're, we're staged for a great end of the season. So we're looking forward to the playoffs, Joe. It's coming. I feel like I've never had that. Like I've, I, I feel like our schedules... I mean, at, at the last school that I was at you know, we were just talking about it before we started, our schedules were always easier because we were, you know, a small school who came from a district, and we've talked about Virginia.

Right. We still play the old district, a lot of them, but it's not, it doesn't actually have any meaning anymore. So we still play a lot of those 'cause they're kinda natural rival teams closer by, but the sizes have made it very different. And so we'll end up playing those team- You know, we would always end up playing these bigger teams.

Not always. I mean, a lot of times the, the 10th game was like a school that's really close by and really just was always a match up. It was always... And it was often [00:02:00] a playoff play-in game type of thing- Nice ... several times. But but yeah, the, the end of the schedule was always, you know, you're able to schedule teams that are more your size in your first three games and then b- you know, often get the, the brutal end of the schedule.

And then I think the school I was at before that, just the way that it worked out, we always had the, the big dogs. The best team was always the 10th. It was at least the last two years when we were good, good enough to compete with them, they were the 10th game. Yeah. And so it was just always this... I'm sure there was a lull in the middle in some of those years where we had some...

We definitely had a middle area, but- What's, what's so weird for us- To be able to just kind of build up for the playoff would be nice. Yeah. So weird for us is we, we're a team that's still young. We're, we got a lot of sophomores on the field. And so you get those... You know, we talked, I think earlier earlier in the season about our free safety who was giving up quite a few throws over the middle, and he's unfortunately- Right

out with a season-ending injury [00:03:00] now. But you know, he's just, they're just young. And we always punch up in our non-district, so- In fact, there's two games there that are rivalry games and the, the teams are both ... Like one's our s- no, they're both bigger. They're both larger schools. Anyway, it's a gauntlet even in non-district, and so we always get to this time of year and it's like you might have three, four, five losses, but they were all excellent teams.

Like, they were not necessarily supposed to win games. And so we will take this. Like, we can- Yeah ... get off the throttle, we can work some fundamentals. We don't have to go out with a exotic blitz package or the most chaotic offensive p- game plan, right? Just go out and get good at some of the stuff. Like I said, get some guys some reps at base things.

So, I know those coaches on the other side probably don't wanna hear me say that about their teams, but we also have been there. I've been where you, you know, you're not competing with anybody. You're limping [00:04:00] into every game. So- Yeah ... I understand it and, and definitely don't mean any offense by it. It's just, it's just what it is.

Calling a spade a spade, so. Anywho let's get to our Power Minute here, Joe. Tonight we're talking corner drills as we continue on our kinda indie period type season. We're talking about drills to match your coverage, teaching the critical skills and responsibilities, which is a, a big key to anything you're teaching, but especially with corners.

And then prepare your corners for your opponent and what they like to do. Last week we talked leveling up your scout team defense, and next week it's off to how to defend the single wing. So that'll be another great one if you guys didn't go back and listen. We covered, I think it was double wing what, six or eight weeks ago seems like, and then we had the three back offenses.

Have we not done double wing yet? I don't think we've done double wing. Okay. I was thinking we did a- ... another one. We have our double wing- Anyway, I know we did three back. We have our double wing section in in four two, in the 4-2-5 system and really it could work for all of our systems inside JDFB You know, that's, [00:05:00] that's a pretty specific one.

Yeah. Yeah, for sure. It's like, here's what we're gonna do. But yeah, we've, we've talked a lot of the wings and things, wing T flex bone and then three back offenses and we'll get into single wing soon. Flex bone. We did do flex bone. That was, that was the one. Yes. Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep. So as we get into playoff football here, guys you that are closing out your seasons and getting ready for postseason, or maybe it's time to, to shutter the thing and, and get ready for next year.

We do appreciate you spending your final minutes of the regular season with us, unless you're in Georgia, and congratulations on your spring football championships, whatever you guys are doing. I, I don't know. Y'all are- Oh, they keep playing. They, they just keep playing. They just keep playing. Yeah. We'll start spring league.

Yeah, like two months. I don't know what they're doing. Oh, man. No, really, if you're in Georgia, I, I, I think I envy you. Can you imagine, like, honestly being in the playoffs already? Starting in July or whatever, it's gotta suck or however, you know, it was early. I don't think I... Yeah, I don't I [00:06:00] don't know where they're at right now, but I, I don't think it's as, I, I'm trying to think.

We have- Seemed like they were in week two as we were trying to get our- Yeah, no, they, I mean, they got going very quickly ... zebra. But I mean, I'm looking at my high school and they're only eight games in. Oh, okay. So it's not a universal- And that's where we're at too, so we're all right. Right. I, they're kinda...

They've got two home games left and oof sorry guys. I know someone listen to the podcast. It's been rough. You guys don't even play Walton anymore, huh? But yeah, eight games into the year, so still two games left. They didn't play their... They played their first game August 21st, which was a- So just about a week ahead of us ... week early. Yeah. Okay. But then, I mean, yeah- For some reason I was thinking they were already onto week two or three when we got started.

Maybe I got bad intel. They were. A lot of them were playing, like, in week two [00:07:00] already. But and they had a bye week in, at the end of September, so that's all. Yeah. Okay. Well, there you go. I'm sure some of them were. You know, y- we, we have that. We, we have teams that'll be in zero week, and minus one week , and minus two week, I don't even know how it happens.

But and some of them do it because of the rules here, where the rules allow you to start in 20 days or whatever it is before your first game, and so the earlier you schedule your first game, the earlier you can start practicing, which to me is, like, the opposite of what I wanna do. Yeah. But, you know.

I get it with the bye weeks. That sure is handy to just take a break after- Yeah, I mean, I love a bye week ... two or three weeks and see where you are. I love a bye week. I always wanna play zero week here. I, I, you know, for years and years and years we played week one through week 10, and, you know, here- we, we can pretty much expect A hurricane.

We didn't have th- really this year. Most years we can expect a hurricane to wipe out a [00:08:00] week, and so it was always just a mess trying to get those games in- Yeah ... when, when you know, we're playing games on Saturday, we're playing games on Monday, we're playing games, you know, just terrible trying to get these games in 'cause the field's unplayable.

It's probably better now since so many people have field turf, but where I was coaching, you know, we didn't have that luxury. Let's pay the bills, man, and we will get going. Yeah, so we are into November. Welcome to November, and unbelievable as this episode comes out, we are into November, and that means that we have our November special offer for JDFB Premium Coaching Systems that is available right now, joedanielfootball.com/novemberspecial.

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You start building your coaching philosophy that way. There's also a in-depth masterclass on the coaching philosophy and how you use the coaching philosophy and, and how you build a coaching philosophy. Basically what we're looking at, guys, is if you felt like you just came out of a season where you were getting tossed in the ocean and the waves and you didn't know what you were gonna be doing and you were constantly having to make decisions that were really hard decisions to make and you didn't know what you wanted to [00:10:00] do, and maybe you're getting forced into doing things the way that you didn't wanna do it you weren't sure what to do, but you're just, just trying to survive and, and you're, you're making these h- hard decisions constantly and not necess- You, you're kinda getting off track a lot.

That's your coaching philosophy. Your coaching philosophy is the guiding principle. It is the thing or the collection of principles that you come back to at all times. For me, coach simple, play fast, win. No matter what, we're gonna be simple, and then it's all of the things that make life simpler for me.

On the defensive side, it's the umbrella run fits. No matter what we do, it is in support of the umbrella run fits. If we break the umbrella run fits, we know it, but and sometimes you do. But it's all built around that, the umbrella run fits, and then the ASCA supports the umbrella, and then the drills support the ASCA, and that's the system and that's the philosophy, and it's all under that coach simple, play fast umbrella.

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Yeah. The very first thing, and I was a first-year guy trying to figure it out. But it's nice. It's nice to get your thoughts out. I actually need to go back and find that one and then do another one. I think it would be really interesting to look at. I always encourage people to go through it. You know, not necessarily go through the whole thing and all the videos and the 27 days, but take the w- the, you know, it's, it comes with a workbook that you can just, you can just work through in a, in a, in a, you know, a Saturday or something like that if you wanna do it that way, especially if it's your second or third time, you know, it's your second time going back through it.

But I always encourage coaches to look through it every single year and just see what's changed. I think the biggest thing for the, for the coaching philosophy is a lot of [00:12:00] guys will say they have a philosophy, and this is the big thing. A lot of guys are like, "What's your coach philosophy?" And they're like, "Oh, it's..."

You know, they have s- they have some words or s- maybe they have some words, but they... Do you have a coaching philosophy? Almost everybody will say like, "Yeah," and they'll be like, it's, you know, it's kinda like what we talk about a lot of times is not a philosophy. It's like, "We're gonna cause turnovers, and we're gonna, you know, shut every opponent out, and we're gonna be disciplined."

And like, that's not your philosophy. That's just not, that's not it. We have to develop more than that, and most people either have a coaching philos- or either really don't have a coaching philosophy at all, or it's in their head but not really on paper, and that's one of the big things is getting all of these thoughts out of your head and organizing them.

But a lot of coaches have put some time into building a coaching philosophy, and they've got a binder, and that's not what we're talking about either because that's just, like, a collection of everything that you ever found on coaching that you liked. And what we need, this, this has to be something you can immediately recall, that you can print and put up on a [00:13:00] wall, and you can look at or put it up on your desk or something like that, or have it by your desk or have it in the drawer right there so that every time you open the desk drawer you see it.

It's something that has to be there supporting your decisions all the time. For me, they're principles that I talk about every single day. So, you know, that's, that's for me, they're all supp- but they had to be written down first. And it's really interesting if you go back and look at them, you'll find, "Oh, I forgot that one.

I completely, we completely, I completely blew it on that one. I, I haven't been doing that at all." So it's always important to go back and look at it, see which ones you're really, which ones are really your core philosophy, which ones got lost, which ones you need to revisit, which ones you probably need to drop.

I love it. Sweet. Well, let's let's jump in here then. Part one. So we were talking about corners drills tonight, and You know, there's so many defensive philosophies, right? It's y- corner drills are, can be, they're nonspecific. Like, I can't just be like, "Hey, here's five great corner drills," because yeah, there's some [00:14:00] fundamental things, some key things that every corner probably needs to be able to do, but if you're just running cover two all the time, your corner drills should not look like mine, which is cover three all the time, or anybody who runs man all the time, right?

If you're, or if you're a pattern match guy. J- but there's so many things you can do with corners. Are you a Rip Liz three match? Are you you know, kind of a cover four quarters, read two kinda guy? You playing palms? Like, so there's a lot of stuff out there, and I know we're gonna get through all that l- you know, as, as we move through the night.

But you really have to figure out what it is that you're gonna do on defense before you start worrying about how to drill your corners, because like this one is titled here, your drills do have to match your coverage The, the biggest mistake and probably cornerback might be just all positions we've talked about all through this season 21 as we've gone through the different position dr- group drills, defensive drills, offensive drills.[00:15:00]

The, the biggest mistake is going and running a collection of drills that don't fit your system, and corners might be the one that could be the most obvious. You know, when we talk about are you press man, off man, zone pattern match, you know, what is it that you are doing? It's gonna have a very different set of drills, and the idea of everyday drills for corners is almost laughable because in most cases you do in

For most high school defenses, not all but mo- almost all, you do a couple of different things, right? You at the very least, like, you know, you r- r- may run some blitz man, whether it's press or off. You're in cover zero sometimes. You're in, ... You know, for me I love cover three, I love cover one, and then we play some zero.

I love press man. I think off man is the cheapest. If you're a base cover three team it's much cheaper to play off man, but I love press man and I love to [00:16:00] be a cover one team if I can do it. So you've just got to ... And then you mentioned cover two, an entirely different animal- Right ... where the, where the corner is the force defender.

I mean, it's different. It's d- you know, everything about it is different. He's literally the corner, right? He sets the, the corner, the edge of the defense in that case. Very different. Your boundary corner may be completely different than your, than your field corner. If you run split field quarters and you like to run a lot of

Like, if you're a 4-2-5 split field quarters, a lot of our guys will run the black check, the cover two check, or, you know, two black cloud whatever. We call it cloud. They, we will, we will run the cloud check, corner force check into the boundary, which means that the boundary corner is a different guy- Right

than the guy to the field who's pattern matching in, in, you know, seven off two inside, pattern matching read two ba- or read two or sky check or whatever. He's either doing blue or sky And so they're very different [00:17:00] maybe even within your own, you know, cornerback room of, of who's doing what. So you've got to look at what your what your coverage that you run is, and then again, it all goes back to the one-on-one game.

What does the one-on-one l- game look like in this coverage package? And the one-on-one game, in case you skipped everything else and just found this as a cornerback drills podcast, that's fine the one-on-one game comes down to what is the breaking it down to the smallest piece, breaking it down to the smallest piece and winning that.

So if I am a cover three corner and I am playing seven yards off, and we like to play seven yards off, two yards inside, we like to play very strong inside leverage and use the sideline as help. We don't expect help from the free safety in cover three. The safeties get, you know, he's gonna be splitting seams and stuff, but he's not gonna be helping on a [00:18:00] fade route.

And by positioning inside, we can hold a post longer And we can also protect a post if the free safety does get pulled out in like a play action because we are playing a more aggressive run-stopping free safety. He's still got key reads. He's supposed to be in coverage, but sometimes they get a bad read and we're- Sure

we're willing to accept that to stop the run and then position our corners to be there to, to help us on that. It also helps them with things like you know, we're ... Are we vulnerable to the out route? Sure, but we can look at safe- we can look at splits a lot of time to figure out where the out route is, and also not many coaches wanna throw the out route.

I don't know if you guys have noticed that. Everybody's like, "He's gonna throw the back shoulder fade." It's like, he might. He's gonna throw a comeback. Maybe. He might. Probably not. I mean, some of you are, are, are, you know, facing some very high-level quarterbacks. Very few, though. I mean, we work with a lot of schools, and I don't see a lot of high-level quarterbacks.

I don't know about you. I don't see a lot of ... Like, I saw one [00:19:00] today that I was like i- which was- compounded by the fact that they were basically a flex bone with wing T tendencies. They had a pretty expanded playbook, and then also a quarterback that could throw, and were also much bigger and more talented than, than our, our team that was playing them, and much older clearly.

Like I, I think I made a comment that their slot receiver would play tackle for y'all. That's- So except for he could run and catch, and it's like, okay, here's a kid who can throw, who can, who can make the right read, who can put it in the right spot. They're rare. And, and high-level passing games are much rarer than coaches think.

I think a lot of coaches think that they're seeing these high-level passing attacks, and they're just not. Some of you are though. Obviously we know some of you are. But if you're seeing it once or twice, that's different. But anyway, the, the you know, the position of the corners, the alignment of the corners.

So if I'm a corner a o- example of one-on-one game is the ball is snapped, I'm slow pedaling, keying the quarterback for three-step, the quarterback triggers to [00:20:00] the, to the flat for a hitch, and I drive on the hitch. Now, the first one-on-one game is simply putting a foot in the ground and driving, recognize the hitch what- whatever you teach.

Now we teach extension plant, Dale Basquette, Athletic Speed and Movement, okay, extension plant is, is, is the thing, okay? This... Dale teaches that basically you put that foot into the ground under your hip, and you drive, and you change direction under control, and you lose no... There's no wasted movement. You don't even really slow down when you get it right.

But a lot of guys are teaching foot fire, they're teaching T-step, all of these things. I've taught them all. Whatever it is, he executes that, and he drives downhill to attack, whether it's outside hip or whatever you want on the hitch to make the tackle. But the first, the first one-on-one game is recognizing it, T-step and drive, or foot fire and drive, or extension plant and drive.

Okay? The second one-on-one game is either a pass breakup, separating the hand from so that he doesn't have that, you know, we come up and try to go [00:21:00] underneath the hands. It's, it's, it's all in what the timing of that drive. So the timing of the drive indicates what the second one-on-one game will be.

The second one-on-one game in that case is if you hit it just right, the second one-on-one game is trying to break and pick the ball off, so it's basically catching the ball. So that's, that's a one-on-one game. If you drove and got there and, and drove in time to break it up but not intercept it, it is separating you know, shooting the hands underneath and separating the hands so that he can't complete the catch.

If you are late on the break or they just got it out perfectly, it's driving and making the tackle, right? But, but those are one-on-one games, so it's... And you could even break it down further and break it down to the read, the t-step, you know, the three-step slow pedal, 'cause I will teach the three-step slow pedal as a drill sometimes because our guys just get so fast in that.

Mm. Their stance is wrong, they start to stand up. So the first thing might just be taking three slow read steps without your chest coming up, still being in position to drive downhill instead of standing up and backpedaling, leaning [00:22:00] back. And then the second drill might be recognizing the, the quarterback handoff ball, we call it pin out of the grade, g- grenade, the quarterback handoff ball to the flat, and that's the second one.

So again, you could break this down even further usually than... I mean, we could break it all the way down to, like, first step for the corner just like we do with the offensive line. But you're seven yards off, there's a little more leeway in that. I don't know how much time I would spend on that. However, they do often step with the wrong foot, so it's just something we wanna watch in the drill.

So, you know, it's breaking down the one-on-one game for the corner. If you if you go to a press man drill progression, we have our tress, press man drill progression inside the defensive drill system, which is included inside JDFB Premium Coaching Systems. Again, JoeDanielfootball.com/novemberoffer, coaching philosophy masterclass, and you get the defensive drill system, and you get 4-2-5 system, 33 sack system, 4-3 system, and 34, whichever one I missed.

33 sack, 4-3, 4-2-5, 34, and the pistol power offense. You get all of it, plus all the other stuff. Okay? JoeDanielfootball.com/novemberoffer or November [00:23:00] special. So if we go our press man progression, that's literally one-on-one game, one-on-one game, one-on-one game. We start with the one-on-one game of you're lined up square facing him inside leverage, and on the snap of the ball, you just basically mirror the same thing we work with offensive lineman on a pass pro.

You just mirror his movement right at the line of scrimmage, and you stay over top of him as long as you can. And no hands, hands behind your back, okay? We don't start with hands. Hands are the worst thing to start with. We see guys shooting their hands, lunging, and now they're going the wrong direction.

You don't want that. The hands absorb, they don't punch. When the hands are punching, you love it. Some coaches are like, "Oh, he's punching him. He's punching the snot out," and that guy sucks. Okay? 'Cause when you go to punch the snot out of a guy who's good and knows what he's doing, bam, wrist gone by, okay?

You're not trying to punch him, you're trying to stay over top. You're not trying to physically abuse him. You're trying to stay over top of him, okay? So it starts with just mirror, mirror shuffle, okay? Then he goes to, finally, eventually, he reroutes himself, he goes to run his fade. Now I'm gonna start to kick slide like an [00:24:00] offensive lineman, okay?

I'm gonna start to basically kick. So I'm gonna kick, kick, and then I'm gonna drive my hip open on my third step. So I'm gonna kick, kick 45-degree angle, try to stay over top as long as I can with it, still disrupting his release, and then I'm gonna drive to open. Okay, and then the next step is we, we drive the hip open, drive the big toe into the ground, driving the hip open.

We're going down the field now. We are running with him. We are squeezing him to the sideline and chopping the wrist as we go. Okay? One-on-one game, one-on-one game, one-on-one game. Now the ball is in the air. We're looking to attack the wrist, or we're looking to attack the ball, but usually we're looking to attack the far wrist, because he doesn't have s- take away his stop hand.

Now he can't make the catch. Okay, when, pass breakup, right? Then we can go all the way back to the beginning, and we have a one-on-one game for now using the off-hand jam, which most coaches, a lot of coaches are teaching a two-hand jam, or they're teaching a one-hand on-hand jam, not purposefully, but they're just teaching them to punch the snot out of him, which is just putting you in a terrible situation.

We start to teach an off-hand jam so that he cannot take our wrist and work by us. So bro- just broken down press coverage into five different drills. Press coverage does take work, but I [00:25:00] think it's worth it. But that's, that's one-on-one games, putting that stuff together. We've also just covered a bunch of drills for press man.

So, basically that's the drill progression for press man. If you wanna know, that's what it is. If you wanna see it, you wanna see it on the field, you wanna see what it looks like, you wanna see it on film, JoeDanielfootball.com/novemberoffer. November special. I gotta get that right. November special.

And that's it. That's one-on-one game. But it all depends on what coverage you're running. Yeah, 'cause as you get into, you know, the, the man match, zone match stuff, right, it changes. It, it, and it alters some of those one-on-one games. We're a big man match team or, or have been historically, right? Even you're getting into read too, w- just your alignment is part of the one-on-one game, right?

Because you've got to be set up to drive people in certain directions or to get your eyes to read things in certain directions. Because it is kind of a modified cover two, right? I mean, yeah, you can get to cover four, but it starts out as a cover two package. And so, You can't go if, if you're gonna run like read two, right?

I think you call it blue in the [00:26:00] JDFB system. You can't go out and run cover three drills. You can't put your corner at seven by one, staring at the quarterback three slow pedals, zone break and, or zone turn, right? And then stay over the top. So that's not how it works. So going out and running those drills because that's what you've seen corners do, doesn't help you any.

You're, you're, you're giving your guys the wrong tools. You're sharpening the wrong weapons, if you will. Okay? So that, that's the key thing here is make sure that whatever you're gonna do is what your guys are getting. And, and I love, Joe, that you're bringing it down to the one-on-one games there because that's, that's, I think we've lost that in ball.

We, we try to get really complex and do it all at one time. We'll just go play read two. Well, odds are they don't know how. They, they don't know how to read number two while looking through, right? You gotta read him as you're, you're looking past or see one in your peripheral as you're reading two, or there's a lot of skills that you have to gain there, you have gotta sharpen before these things are really gonna operate at op- at optimal speed.

So [00:27:00] this is why we say you can't dabble in some things. I honestly don't think you can dabble in any defensive coverage. I think if you're gonna be as a country cover three, there's a lot of minutia there that you have to be good at, or you are gonna give up the hitches all the time, and as soon as your guy cuts, you know, they're over the top.

If your safety isn't good at splitting the hashes and, and covering both routes, you're gonna give up a ton of deep balls, and then you're gonna wanna switch to cover four. And it's not because cover three isn't working, it's 'cause you're not operating right. Like, your kids aren't... It's 'cause you're dabbling.

So this is why I don't recommend going out and having a two, a three, a four, a six, all these coverages just to say that you do a bunch of stuff. Don't, don't dabble in anything. But the one-on-one game is a, a great way to look at that. I think the thing about cover three, and you say dabbling, and well, I, I think that there's two different meanings to it, and it's really important to clarify.

I think that there are teams out there that wouldn't think, you know, they don't think they're dabbling in cover three because it's [00:28:00] the only coverage that they run, but I would still say they're dabbling. And what I mean by that is some guys run cover three, and you know, you can get away with this at some lower levels and, you know, really poor passing attacks or better athletes.

But we're gonna install cover three, and you go down there and you say you take the simplest version that I have of cover three, right? So my, my simplified version of cover three, the basic, basic, basic, the starting point is, is we wanna be super simple, right? You stay deep. That's your deep third. Nobody gets behind you.

That's your deep third. Nobody gets behind you. That's your middle third. Nobody gets behind you. You drop to the hash. You drop to the, to the numbers. You drop to the hash. You drop to the numbers. We're 10 yards deep. Cover three installed And you go, "Done." In theory, sure. Until they run a play, and then there's so many things that start to fall [00:29:00] apart with your dabbled cover three.

The first one is that your corner doesn't play cover three. He essentially plays man on number one. That's we see tons and tons of corners doing. So you, you just... He's locked in on that, and n- you don't realize it until you play a team that can actually throw, and then all of a sudden, you play a team that play, that doesn't throw anything but hitch, slant, and fade, and he's fine.

Not a problem. And then you play a team that can actually run a four verts, and he doesn't do anything to squeeze number two. You play a team that runs a, a, a, a Good smash concept. Like against cover three it shouldn't work, right? But he's driving on the hitch route because he's just zeroed in the route, he's not reading the quarterback.

So all of these things, you've got to then go into the intricacy of teaching it. We'll get into some of that because I think there's a lot. But you're right, there's so much that you can do in cover three to make it better [00:30:00] that most coaches will just not put the time in. What I do think you can, dabble isn't the right word.

What I l- what I like to do in coverage and I like to be cover three and cover one. I always encourage coaches to have a, a base coverage and then a secondary coverage, and the key is that the secondary coverage, kind of like we talk about the offensive playbook philosophy. You know, the offensive playbook philosophy is we have one play that we are great at, and we don't have to be that great at the other plays that work off of it, that complement it, because we will always run those other plays when you adjust to stop our best play.

And so we, we can be average at those other plays because we're always running them into a weakness. So we're always running toss when you've condensed everybody down and given us the edge. We're always running counter when your backside linebacker is chasing our motioning H-back. We are always running play [00:31:00] action when your guys are biting up on the run action or jumping the run action, right, and the corner's jumping the run action or something.

So when the corner, when, when you are always running man and they're expecting man, and then you sit in a zone 10% of the time, it's, you know, you're okay. I think more commonly we see teams always running cover three and then occasionally running man, and you don't have to be that great at man coverage because you're bringing pressure or they just didn't expect it.

Teams do it with catch techniques and things like that where you're just, you're where they didn't expect you to be and, and so you don't have to be great at that. But I always recommend for me f- I always recommend if you're pattern match, you spend a ton of time pattern matching and you run cover three as your your complement because cover three doesn't take a ton of teaching and you're only running it as your complement.

You're basically running cover three against the teams where pattern matching is pointless- Right ... because they're gonna run the ball 90% of the time, and so you don't have to be great in the coverage aspect of it. [00:32:00] You are what I like to do with cover one and cover three is run cover one, even if cover three is gonna be my base coverage, run cover one all through seven-on-seven and don't dabble in it then.

Run cover one like you mean it all through seven-on-seven. Teach it, work it, drills, everything, and then when we get to the season, now we invest more in cover three because we've invested the entire off-season in cover one. So we just split up when we, when we invest our time commitment into it. Or you can invest in You know, usually like a Tuesday practice is gonna be all man coverage, Wednesday is gonna be all zone coverage, Thursday will, it will be a mix if Monday's your install day for, you know, just as an example.

I don't like I, I prefer not to be in a situation where one week we're cover one heavy and the next week we're cover three heavy because then you're essentially, you're, you're, you're changing [00:33:00] back and forth. But your corners can be okay if they know how to play man because the, the good thing about man is, you know, your, your safeties are gonna have more trouble when you do that, but your corners can, you know, especially if they play off man, but if, if they play press man, man actually simplifies the game for them because they don't have to look at anything but the guy.

Man complicates the game for strong safety, weak safety, unless you wanna screw up your run fits, which I don't recommend, and we've been through that. And we got a whole ... If you wanna know more, if you wanna get, get into these coverages, obviously we have our 4-2-5 Defense manual, 425Defense.com. I go into depth on the coverages there, not, not the pattern matches.

We do teach deep on the pattern match split field quarters coverages in the, in the system 425 Defense system in JDFB Gold, Platinum, but Gold and Platinum. But I have articles on JoeDanielfootball.com. Just click on the articles button there and you'll see articles on cover three, really [00:34:00] deep articles on cover three and cover one.

So you wanna just go into depth of the coverages, but Figure out what what matches your coverage. I mean, what's, what's the, the drills that you need to have, and then what is the most important thing within those? Like you said, don't dabble. Just really getting in depth on, like, what do you need to do in this?

You mentioned pat- pattern match. We'll talk... we'll probably talk more pattern match here than we, we talk most of the time. Right. But, like, I'm still teaching the first phase of pattern match very similar to cover three. I'm still watching the quarterback for the first three steps because the most dangerous thing is you know, at the start of the play for through the first three steps, and our, our slow pedal three steps is supposed to match up with the quarterback three-step drop.

Once we get to that third step, if he hasn't thrown the ball, we're now shifting into the next phase, basically d- drop back passing. But as I'm pedaling one, two, three, I'm looking for hit route, slant route, something I can drive on, and that's what I'm thinking. [00:35:00] And now then the one-on-one game is as we shift to you know, as we shift to cover three, now I shift into a speed pedal to stay over top.

Not a complicated one-on-one game, but the one-on-one game in pattern match is my eyes flip to number two. They go from quarterback to number two, and I have to be able to... Like, you really have to be i- all the time, and I... Corners don't like this. I, I think it's important to try to drill it out of them.

Corners do not like playing inside leverage. We used to play them inside leverage in a slot. They hated it. We play them inside leverage, and we play them in a, in a back pedal. And they do worry about, like, what's happening out there. They've got to be able to have peripheral vision and, and just feel where number one is.

They've got to understand route concepts, which we'll get into in the third part. But the big thing is, the big thing is, is just like our safeties, our safeties are going through the three-step, and then if it's pass, they are eyes to the number two receiver in, in our man coverage. And if it's run, then they are rip outside, rip outside, rip outside.[00:36:00]

For the corners, it's transitioning those eyes to number two, finding that number two receiver, knowing where he was pre-snap. You're kind of looking through him to the quarterback. You're looking for quarterback for quick game, and then your eyes are going to the number two receiver for pattern match, and then you've...

you know, you're working your pattern match stuff. But the hardest thing, the thing you have to transition though to work the most is the eyes in the pattern match. It's, it's the eyes working to number two. It's the eyes for the safety and the corner getting to number two. It's not even recognizing the route concept.

It's, it's getting the eyes on that guy that you're gonna be reading because if you do nothing but read two, and I think that's where both safety and corner, I think that's where coaches are getting in trouble with the match stuff, if all you're doing is reading two, two doesn't tell you it's a run play Two doesn't tell you- Not anymore.

No, it doesn't. No, it doesn't. We're, we're a bubble every time team and, and we're running- Yeah ... GT and, and you're flying outside for a bubble. Two doesn't tell you it's a run play. Two doesn't tell you it's a [00:37:00] play action. Two doesn't give you the information that you need. Yeah. Two only, he can tell you, he'll tell you the route concept.

Yeah. But I can tag a route concept. Like you said, I can tag a bubble. I can tag, I can tag any route concept I want onto a run play. Four vert maybe. Like you can even say, and if it's a bubble ignore it, right? And I can just tag it as a, like a vert, and then you're just, your safety's flying down the field by gone.

Yeah. Or I can tag it with a, with a go in and out. Now your corner's flying down the field with the one and the out route, you know, he, you, you just, you got to get the read. And the, and the corner doesn't have to worry about the run read. That's important for us, unless it's cover two corner. The corner is staying coverage, but the safety has to.

So we can't just, but we can't just be locked on. The problem with the corner is he doesn't see the quarterback firing the ball to the flat on an uncovered 'cause you're back there nine, you started out nine yards and you're peddling back and looking at number two to see what the route is. Number two's just standing there like, "Ball's out there."

[00:38:00] Like he's blocking the safety 'cause you've taken yourself out of the play and you're like, "Wait a minute." So yeah, I mean, you've, you've ... Training the eyes is the critical thing. Like what in each coverage is the most necessary? In press man it's the feet, 100%. In cover three I think it is the feet, but it's completely different, right?

To me it's pedal drive, it's pedal open, it's that zone turn. It's still the eyes to the quarterback, but it's being able to, to pedal drive on a hitch route. It's being able to pedal brake on an in or an out route. It's being able to pedal open and zone turn on a, on a on a, a on a deep ball or on a five-step or whatever it is, and then being able to play.

And then we go to working the, the two routes you know, middling two routes, again to go to Kirby Smart, two-thirds of our attention to the number two receiver, to the inside receiver, one-third of our attention to the outside receiver. It's a longer throw, we have more time. Body position we're probably closer to the outside receiver, but our attention is more to the inside receiver, so working that.

But the critical thing is still the feet. I think if you can you [00:39:00] know, pedal and drive or pedal and open is probably the two biggest things that you can do. Yeah. And zone turn basically, when we say pedal open it's that zone turn. And then, you know, in in off man it's the same. The good thing about off man and, and, and off man cover one and cover three is they're basically the same but with less responsibility and a man turn instead of a zone turn.

It should be much easier than cover three honestly for him. But again, the complexity comes for the strong safety, weak safety if you're 4-2-5, 33 stacker, you know, that type of thing. And then the the eyes in the, in the pattern match guys. So, you know, you've got three basically, three basic cover families.

You've got your zone, you've got your, you've got your true zone, you've got your true man, and then you've got your man match or pattern match. And, you know, the eyes are the, probably the hardest thing in the pattern match. I think it's it is, it, very important to identify those critical skills, but also to teach the kids responsibilities.

I know it's kind of the second part- ... here. You know, we call this, like, there, there, there's two phases of responsibility. The first one is your non-negotiable, and I generally [00:40:00] teach this on the offensive line, but it fits so well, right, with no matter what your coverage is. If you're just a country cover three, your non-negotiable is like don't give up the vert, right?

We're gonna, we've got help underneath. If they hitch, we're gonna rally and tackle. If it's a quick out, we got rally and tackle. But if they start hitting seams, they start hitting vertical balls, that's your non-negotiable. Now- This is why critical skills is also a part of this, 'cause I can't just have you run the 15 yard deep every time and say, "Coach, I didn't...

My non-negotiable's taken care of. I didn't give up vertical ball," right? There's that, the almost the art and the science of it. But the non-negotiable is, is what I think you really have to hammer home with these kids, regardless what your responsibility or, excuse me, what your coverage is. We have to talk to our outside backers all the time about where do you start in coverage?

Because what have they done? Well, they, they took a read step. They're trying to set the edge, and now they get pass read, and what do they do? They run three yards deeper than they started and run to the [00:41:00] numbers. Well, the flats, they're really curl to flat, which means they gotta start at about 12 yards, right?

And so understanding that responsibility. "Well, Coach, they ran a dig route." Yeah, and that's you, right? You should have been there to hand it off to the inside backer, who also sucks at getting deep enough to, to get to the true hook curl of their zones. They're u- they're the same. They took a read step and then they started slowly backpedaling and took three steps with their head on a swivel or maybe just staring at the quarterback, right?

And all that in middle of the field stuff comes open. And so those, teaching that responsibility, your non-negotiables, like you don't give up the intermediate route. Flood, right? If you're a cover three guy, and a lot of people listening probably are, flood's our worst enemy because we have to give up one of those routes or our non-negotiable or our responsibility is the deepest route in your zone.

We have to give up the least number of yards. So if they flood my zone it's really hard, but you have to get back to the deepest route. Mesh concept, same thing. [00:42:00] They're gonna run guys at six yards, right? As deep, that's the deepest, sometimes m- shallower than six yards. But if your inside backers bite on those, then the OTB is right there, okay?

The next, that next intermediate route is gonna pop open because you're biting on mesh, which has already cleared your zone by the time the quarterback throws the ball anyway. So teaching responsibility, teaching non-negotiable, this is where everything starts. I can't give up the vert, so it means I can't go drive on a hitch because I see him hitch.

I have to see ball out, right? I've gotta see the ball come out and then I can drive. That's a non-negotiable. Protect the vert and then the skill, the b- ability to drive down on those. Protecting the flat and your flood concepts. A wide receiver or excuse me, a free safety has to understand his responsibility is deep third.

It's not one hash or the other. So if he gets, finds himself on a hash, and you know how offenses do this, guys. Well, in high school we start on a hash. 90, 80, 90% of the time And then I'm just gonna run concepts that [00:43:00] puts a receiver on each one. Your free safety's gonna back straight up and be like, "Coach, I'm over the center."

You're right, but where's your responsibility? It's not the hash, right? It's th- we're leaving that open on purpose in cover three, which means you gotta get to the middle of the field. So teaching those responsibilities, one, non-negotiables, that's on them. The other piece of it is the peripheral. So it's the where is my help?

Where can I let something go because someone else is either on the way there or already there, okay? So, so going back to flood, your corner can't bite down on that intermediate route thinking, "Oh, I see something," you know, a, a... Most people run it like a sail, you know, 10 to 12 yards, hit the out. He can't bite on that or the vert goes.

He's gotta know where his help is and what his friends are doing so he can do his job. Linebackers are, are very big here as well because they'll, they'll start chasing something that started in their hook, goes to the curl, but then it goes way out to the flats, right? And it's like you have to [00:44:00] pass that off because they're running one more in behind you waiting on you to screw up.

So that's the two pieces of responsibility is one, what is your non-negotiable? What is your job? You absolutely can't let this happen or have to get this done, however you wanna look at that. And the second is that peripheral, where is the support element around me? Where is my help? Where can I miss and be okay because I know my buddy's gonna be there?

Or is it just the old school, you know, let them throw a hitch, rally and tackle. Like, they're gonna get, they're gonna get impatient, they're gonna throw something stupid, or one of those is gonna be too low, too late, too wide, too high, and you get a chance to go make a play, you know, after the fact

Yeah, I'm never okay with letting them throw a hitch. Never ever, ever, ever. And one of my... That is one of the most critical things in the world to me is that we can drive on a hitch. I'll, I'll let you catch a hitch. You wanna throw it, cat, and, and, and get tackled for a five-yard gain? Okay. But he better be a hit, he better be getting hit- For sure

as the [00:45:00] ball arrives, basically. For sure. So my non-negotiable cover three, very simple non-negotiable is stay in coverage. Takes no talent and it takes no talent and yet still kids see a run play and they start to jump up, and coaches are yelling at the corner about jumping up there to make a, "Go make a tackle."

Shut up. That's not his job. It's been me. Yeah. It's been me. So we gotta know what the non-negotiable is. And so with, you know, the corners, unless it's a crack replace situation and cracks, crack blocks are so rare today you know, the, the biggest thing we don't, we don't count him in the run fit. Like you said, he cannot give up.

I g- I will not accept a corner. There's one thing that I will not accept. I will not accept a corner allowing a team that can't [00:46:00] throw to complete a 65-yard pass to an uncovered receiver because you decided your job is to stop the toss play. Right. Or to stop a power, which is the best is when it's like a power pass and you jumped it.

What are you gonna do in C-gap, dude? I had, I had one today, Joe at running scout team and my corner we're just, you know, scout team defense so it's- ... just, it's the, the guy. But he saw the bubble get thrown inside and he was gonna come tackle it. The receiver dropped it the first time, so it's probably a fumble, could've been incomplete, and he comes flying.

And I was like, "What are you doing? You gotta stay in coverage." "Coach, I saw the ball out. It's on the ground. I'm going to make a play." No, I lost a game that way. I said, "Brother, listen, they're gonna vertical you and they're gonna..." 'Cause his vertical's running wide open, of course. Yep. He just left it. Of course.

And I was like, "They're gonna double pass." Yep. But I hadn't even read the script. I'm sure it was on there. I don't know Cameron's lingo that well anyway. And then sure enough, they come right back to it, throw it again, and he catches it, and then boom, double pass. Like- Yeah ... [00:47:00] it's always there. I, I even hate crack replace sometimes, Joe, because crack and go is a whole entire thing.

Well, you've gotta, you've gotta be engaged. Yeah. Now it's generally close enough that, right, it's, you gotta, one, know if they carry it, and two, it's running straight to your free safety. But man, that, like I even hate... I, I get uncomfortable teaching crack replace because you are a stay in coverage player.

There, there is a use for it. I understand it exists and, and a team, you can't give them- It's not as, it's, it's, it's honestly not as big a deal as it used to be other than when you're talking about a, you know, tight end wing sets and stuff. Right. But you know, it used to be when we could line up at eight yards, line up at an eight-yard split and come down and tee off on an outside backer, and all we had to do was get our helmet in front and then just absolutely annihilate him if you didn't come down and replace that.

So, you know, your job was to slow pedal, scream, "Crack, crack, crack," and then when you actually heard the kid get blown up, then you came up to make the play. [00:48:00] But you could hear it. Crack, crack was not, and a lot of you have not been coaching long enough to know this, but that, that word crack block was a legitimate thing.

They were straight kill shots. So we don't have that in the game anymore, and we shouldn't. It's more of a basketball on grass type of thing, and the outside backer has a much better chance of beating that block than he used to. But you still, if he gets engaged in the block, you've gotta come up and replace.

For sure. Yeah, and then, you know, man coverage is the old, you know, man is man, you go with him wherever he goes. You're a stay in coverage player, you're man on number one, what does that mean? Means you go with him, you go with him, you know, the, the whole joke, you go with him to the bathroom. If he goes to the bathroom, you go with him.

If he goes up and sits with his girlfriend in the stands, you go with him. Man is man. And that's, that's the man coverage rule. And then the the pattern match rule, you know, the non-negotiable on the pattern match I [00:49:00] think is, is ultimately the eyes. It is, but if you wanna get into like the, the ... To me, the non-negotiable is working those eyes, but pattern match, you're almost beyond non-negotiable.

It's like you shouldn't be running pattern match if you're still talking in terms of the basics of non-negotiables. It's like, but it is, it is the understanding of you know, staying over top, but it's, it's the, it- it's the eyes and then knowing if he goes vertical, eyes go to number one. If he goes out, whether you're slow to two or jump two.

If he goes in, eyes go to number one, that kind of thing. But it's- Well, I think- But, but then depending on what you're running, if it's split field quarters and you're running sky, it's stay over top no matter what. It's a very simple non-negotiable, as opposed to blue, which is more complicated. Yeah, a lot of them I think you're, are built in now, right?

We have mod coverage, we've got mess coverage. Like, some of it, it just tells you what the non-negotiable is. Mod, man, outsider deep. Don't bite on stuff inside. You're still a, essentially a cover three corner that's also hitting on a five yard out, [00:50:00] right? You're, you're crushing a hitch, you're crushing a five yard out because now it's man.

So a lot of those, those non-negotiables get built into the read. Mess everything but shallow, right? So I'm, I'm taking him on a slant, but I'm not taking him when he runs a mesh, but a mess and mesh weirdly enough don't go together. But if he does, you know, run a shallow, I've gotta let him go and just ride the hash, pick up trash, as Cody Alexander would say.

So I think a lot of our non-negotiables get built into that more complex one because you're right, it, it is more advanced and so kids do need to have a better understanding of defense and the peripheral. They, they already know I'm letting this go 'cause my guy is reading the same thing as me, right?

We, we know the rule, the rule now is the non-negotiable. Follow the freaking rule- Yeah ... versus when I give a kid, "Hey, you have everything from 12 yards to 100 yards from hash to sideline," that's a little more ambiguous, and so we need more non-negotiables for those ambiguous calls, versus [00:51:00] man, outsider, deep.

You're on him like- Well, the, the non-negotiable might be if, if you, if you wanna tag a non-negotiable onto it other than, you know, just when it's, you know, sky check, the non-negotiable is probably once it's locked, it's locked. Whatever your rules are with locking. For sure. For sure. With that. Whatever you call, you better run.

Yeah. Right? Right. Once you, once ... if you say, if you say pushing vertical past seven is locked, once we say it's locked, it's locked, and now it's man. 100%. 'Cause that's, that's where you get in trouble is releasing your match. Even ... you know, you can drill those matches, but when you start releasing matches too late that's where you, that's where you get into more trouble, I think, than anything.

Let's let's jump to this last part here, Joe. Talk about preparing for, for this week's opponent or for this opponent. And this comes back to your scouting, your game planning. You've gotta know what they're gonna really hit you with, 'cause you just even talked about the lack of importance of the crack block at this point, and, and it seems like everybody's RPOing.

So number one, we stopped crack blocking. You know, a lot of guys have taken the wide receiver out of- A lot of guys have, [00:52:00] yeah. ... And so he's got other stuff going on. But two, you need to know is this a fulfilled read where I have to cover for three to five seconds? Is it you know, the quarterback is out on the third step every time, where it's like you

Th- this is where driving on a hitch may be a little m- easier because, one, I'm cover three, I'm watching the quarterback. But I expect to see the pigskin in the air, right? He's not gonna hold it for five seconds and wait for Y cross to cross. And so I think, you know, preparing for your opponent this week, and then modifying your drills to match that.

We talked about flood earlier, right? There ... You've gotta be able to stop flood, even if you're a base cover three. You can't just continuously give up a kid running full speed at five yards deep and letting him turn the corner on you. At some point, you've gotta start tagging up the defense to get rid of that, right?

To, to, to to take flood away. And so preparing your kids and then getting those drills that are gonna modify them to the point that they stop what this opponent wants to do I think, I think that's big [00:53:00] time The, the thought process here is understanding what a team can do or does do, and then setting up your player to have a mental understanding of that.

And, and, and so this can be things like understanding the receiver split and what that means. Like, okay, here's what they run out of bunch and what you need to look for. Here's what they run when the receiver has an eight-yard split versus 12-yard split versus 16-yard split, what they're going to do. And a lot of that's just general knowledge, okay?

If he lines up in a wide split, he's coming inside. If he lines up in a normal split, he's probably in a normal split, probably running a normal route, right? He's probably running you know, hitch, f- maybe fade, maybe, you know, something straight up curl or normal splits. Could be post too. And then if he's in a tight split, he's probably running an out route.

He's running a flat route. He's running a, a out route. He's running a deep out, whatever the case may [00:54:00] be, a corner route maybe. So just understanding, okay, when he does that, how do I adjust my alignment? How do I adjust my thought process? How do I preload the brain for what I expect to see? The best example is we were very heavy three and one, but off man one year.

And I was working with the secondary primarily, just ended up working with a lot of the secondary. Worked with the corners and the safeties all together at times. And, Probably that, that season is probably the most I've ever spent working with corners just 'cause of the small coaching staff.

And the one that sticks out in my mind is we had a team that essentially... Now, it's not always this easy, but I'm using this as an example. They ran a hitch, they ran a, a fade, and they ran a post. So their route concepts were hitch, go, and post out, and they would also I think they may have, may have had a post wheel, and we had a thing for that.

But it was you know, the main thing was these are the routes you're gonna get. And so it was, okay, we're going to align our normal alignment, but I wanted to make sure we [00:55:00] understood it. Full two yards inside. We're gonna make sure we're two yards inside of the man, so seven yards off, two yards inside.

So we're gonna take away the post by our alignment. We don't have to do anything thought process-wise. We are lined up far enough inside that the post is going to be easy for us to take away. And so now, as we slow pedal through the three-step, we're expecting hitch. We're going, as we're taking our, our, our three steps, we're watching that quarterback for handoff ball to flat.

Remember, I don't have run reads, so I'm watching that ball from r- my three-step for hitch, 'cause that's their three-step concept. That's the one we gotta stop. Maybe they got a slant, I don't know. I'm not worried about it. Plus, the slant's gonna go to the OLB, not to you. So I'm slow pedaling, I'm slow pedaling for three, one, two, three, and I'm going hitch, hitch, hitch.

It's all I'm thinking. Hitch, hitch, hitch. Now if I go hitch, hitch, hitch, and it hasn't been a hitch route, I'm f- I'm physically aligned for the post now, so I don't have to be think post. I, I go hitch, hitch, hitch, [00:56:00] and then I'm thinking if he's still, if that quarterback's still got the ball, okay, I'm thinking fade.

Because physically I'm aligned to take away the post. If it's a... If, if I recognize anything late, it's the post route. 'Cause if I, what I wanna do now is I wanna go fade, and so I'm thinking fade, and if it's fade, what I'm gonna see, which, you know, teach them all of this, and you gotta look at your quarterback, but if I, if it's fade, what I'm gonna see is that quarterback...

Now this is a team who I prefer, I wanna throw the fade on three-step. This was a team who was throwing fade on five-step. Okay, so if I throw hitch or fade, you're gonna see through that. If you were going hitch, hitch, hitch, you would get to the third step and you would see shoulder up and that would be immediate fade.

They were doing it on the five-step, so I'm still, I still have to go a little farther to play the fade, which is great for me because it's a longer throw, it's a less accurate throw, it gives me more time to squeeze it, so I'm happy that it's being thrown on five and not three. And so I'm going hitch, hitch, hitch.

Okay, fade. Which then I'm going, [00:57:00] you know, starting to speed pedal and I'm looking for that front shoulder to come up. If that front shoulder doesn't come up, right now I'm thinking post. So but I- Post and curl, yeah ... but I'm, I'm now glancing, right? But my thought process is hitch, hitch, hitch, fade. Okay, it wasn't a fade.

Where's post? Now physically I'm still inside leverage, so I've got time to squeeze the post now. Okay, so and, and you know, they were throwing posts on a cover three which is sh- we should be fine. We've got a free safety who's gonna be there as well. It's more, you know, you can throw the out route maybe.

I don't know. We didn't see a lot of that, but we, we played the pass great that game, but we didn't, post wasn't an issue. You know, one time we had an issue on a post and I think we were in a man coverage thing and but that was it. So that's the thought process here is with your corners, and you can do this in all areas of the field.

You can use physical alignment and you can use mental thought process on the goal line, you know, at five-yard line and in, you're essentially as a corner playing man on a number one receiver, you're thinking slant and fade. That's really it. [00:58:00] That's as far as traditional route concepts if I'm playing up on him.

And so physically I'm gonna align my body inside. Even if I'm playing five yards off, and remember I can play much tighter, I would never play five yards off. That's no man's land in the middle of the field. But when I get down here, you can't, you can't get behind me, so I'm not worried about that. I can play up at five and you're not gonna run a go route behind me from the four-yard line.

So I'm, even if I'm playing five yards off, I can play five yards off and strong, like three yard inside leverage, and I've taken the slant away by body position, and then all I'm thinking is playing the fade route physically. So and, and you know, they, they break inside or outside immediately, so we're talking, you know, you're gonna know right now.

So and a lot of guys think like three yards inside he's wide open. No he's not. The ball has to travel in the air. I promise you, he'll be fine. As long as he's, you know, sees the ball come out. So, that or sees the release because you're in man, you don't have to see the ball come out. You can, you're in man so you can see, you can see, you drive on it, you know, slant.

Okay, I'm squeezing the slant. [00:59:00] If it's fade, I'm squeezing the fade. So mentally preparing your guys in game week for what it is that they do, what they need to see and what they need to ignore. So like y- your example of the flood routes, like you need to ignore that intermediate route because there's a deep route behind you that is gonna be a killer.

You need to know who the guy is. Played broke down a team for one of our coaches and, you know, honestly we've watched, we're getting ready watching their film and This one kid, they were moving this one kid around, and when they moved him into the number... This, this, this, I can't remember if he was two or number two or number three.

Most of the time he was either at number two or number three. They were in trips all the time. Most of the time he, I can't remember if he was at number two or number three in the trips formation, but he never got the ball. He'd be running [01:00:00] down the field wide open, they never threw him the ball. Now, the other three kids were way better than him probably.

I don't know, 'cause I never saw him catch. But he'd be running down the field wide open, nobody's looking at him. Nobody's talking to him, nobody knows his name. He's like the kicker. They just, if something happens and he magically gets the ball, we'll celebrate it, but like that's for senior night. Whatever.

So, and then when they wanted to run one particular play, like a bubble or something to the number three, they would just flip a different guy into number three and run the play. So it's like as a corner you need to be aware, let's say that you're trying to match that, you need to be aware that this guy's not getting the ball, or that this guy doesn't...

Like your example, like, you know, talk about what are the routes that he runs. Like, this guy is not running f- if this guy runs a fade route, he's, not to say that you release a fade route, but it's like he's not getting it. Right. Right? Or this guy doesn't have a break in his entire route game. He runs a fade every time.

Or this guy [01:01:00] on run plays just walks off the line of scrimmage, and it's like, well, now you can kind of, like what do we do with that? Jump off line, yeah. And you start to look at other things. Like we, we've seen teams where there's so much that corners can learn from receivers, 'cause receivers think that nobody's watching them a lot of times.

But a lot of times they wanna be watched, 'cause they only get the ball... The best receiver gets the ball 10 times, right? Like, the best receiver might touch the ball 10 times in a game. And so they're coming out there, and you'll see it all the time with them. Watch, watch the number one receivers. Corners should watch film on number one receivers, especially if you get film from the huddle.

They, they send you the film and they don't clip it, and you watch them run out of the huddle. Run play, they're walking out there. Pass play, they're skipping up to the line. And then, you know, they get... But you'll see no huddle teams do it too, right? Everybody lines up and they... Or check with me teams, and everybody lines up, and the coach holds up a bear and a dog and a moose, and the kid looks up at the cards, and he's just, [01:02:00] his head drops.

Or he looks at his wristband and just closes it It's like, all right, not a pass. At that point, you- that's where you train your corners to start screaming, "Run." Yeah. I don't have run responsibility, but I can tell everybody else. Like, don't just stand out there and stare at that kid. Just as soon as that kid walks off the line, you're screaming, "Run."

It's a run play. Yeah. Like, but, but the biggest thing is preparing them for the routes that they run. Pattern match, I think if you spend the whole... If you're a pattern match team, I'm spending the whole week pattern matching their three best concepts, and I'm, I'm gonna have to pattern match. And again, I always, there's things that I wanna work on, there's things that I wanna see.

Like, for me, I always wanna... You know, not for pattern match purposes, but I'm always gonna be scripting a screen in there. I'm always gonna be scripting a four verts out of three by one, because that's, we gotta work the hang technique for the backside weak safety and our cover three stuff and our, and our check roll.

So, you know, I'm always scripting those [01:03:00] things in. If you're pattern match, you probably always wanna run a couple of things that just, you know, maybe are a little weird that you wanna make sure that they see, but they're, they've given you problems and you wanna make sure that they're, they're in their mind.

But you know, if all their route concepts are curl flat and post out and, you know, four verts, it's like that's all that I'm working on. It's all that we're doing. So build your... And then you build your drills around that, okay? So if they're gonna run nothing but fade balls, I'm working a lot of pedal open and I'm working on that big toe into the ground and not letting my feet cross over, and I'm working on that zone turn and I'm working on squeezing, looking, looking and leaning and all that kind of stuff.

If I'm gonna be in press man and, and they're gonna run nothing but slants, I'm working on squeezing down that slant route from an inside leverage position. I'm gonna take away the thing they d- that they do best or if it's a thing we need to work on. So you just build your... And, and build your, build your corner drills the same way, because we don't have to spend as much time, you know, yeah, we're working on run blocking and that kind of stuff.

We might [01:04:00] be working on some of our, our, you know, obviously we're catching balls and doing all that kind of stuff, but I can build and I can ask the, the offense coordinator if I'm the receiver coach to like build, or the, the corners coach, ask the defense coordinator to build the script, the team script a little bit more around one or the other if, you know, so that I can go into my indie drills and I can spend all my time today working on, you know, sometimes we split it by I'm working man or zone, man today, zone tomorrow, but I can also go in there and say we're gonna spend all of our time today working on three step and all of our time tomorrow working on five step, and then the next day we can, we can mix it up or I'm gonna spend all of my time.

So try not to just work everything, even if most teams have a pretty diverse passing attack. Almost everybody runs three step and five step. They run hitch and fade. They run slant, you know. So you gotta work all these different things. But it's like, hey, if I can just spend an entire day working on braking, driving on hitch routes- And, you know, not be too concerned with, you know, as [01:05:00] far as my indie drills.

Yeah. And then just be hitch route heavy in seven-on-seven and hitch route heavy when we do pass in team, then that'll help me focus that kid in on pedal drive today as my focus, to whereas if I go pedal drive as the focus and then we go to seven-on-seven and they're running nothing but curl concepts or they're running nothing but go routes, then it's like, what do you...

Or they're double m- they're running double moves. Like, I just worked on hitch, you know, if, if I w- if I work on hitch routes all day and you run nothing but hitch and go, it's like, I want you to work a hitch and go and, and, and get him on it, you know. That's great, because that'll show me that there's a problem, but if that's like all you do, it's like he's never gonna drive on a hitch route again.

That's right. That's right. All right, man, I think we I think we checked all the boxes. Tonight we talked through corner drills, drills to match your coverage, teaching your critical skills and responsibilities, and preparing your corners for this week's opponent. Last week we talked about [01:06:00] leveling up your scout team defense, and next week we're on to how to defend the single wing.

It is now time for the ever popular Level Up. What do you got, Joe? I, I don't think I talked about this last time. I know I talked about the... I've talked about the, my level up with Grok and GrokBot and Muse. Yeah. And, and I mean, I really... I mean, for... I use ChatGPT a ton. Yep. I never got into Claude, but I use ChatGPT a ton for planning, for ideas you know, that kind of stuff.

I use, I use it a lot. But... And guys tell me, you know, people will say, like, "Well, ChatGPT can do that." It's not nearly as easy on the agentic side, on, on the agent, you know. But, but having these agents in the, in, in GrokBot. Muse is like... Muse is different but here's... You know, I love the agents in GrokBot, and I have my, you know, I have my different agents.

I have one agent who's just in charge of customer, like client care, basically. They, [01:07:00] they... You know, he's looking at huddle exchanges. He's looking at, you know, who needs to get their roadmap to victories this week. He's looking at... You know, that's the kind of stuff he's looking at. Are we taking care of everybody?

He's checking the chalkboard to see if we got anything to look at there, right? That's the kind of stuff that he's doing. Yeah. I got, you know, and then I got my, my personal ones. I got the one who's looking at my NFL bets, you know. He's, he's to keep track of that stuff. I got the one who's, But, you know, I've got the executive assistant who sets my calendar every morning.

I send him a picture of my, my bullet journal, and he puts it in the put- sets up the calendar, and then I tell him what to adjust. Takes care of it, looks at all my meetings, checks my email, all that kind of stuff. Muse is a little bit different in that Muse is basically one person, you know, one agent that you communicate with.

And m- my agent is a she, a muse, Calliope. Calli- Calli- Calliope. It's the, the head muse, [01:08:00] Greek. Callie. I just call her Callie. And Callie for me is, like, kind of a... Like, there's certain things that I use muse for and a- they're almost all personal. But what I'm using muse for that I really like right now, I'm a big fan of blogs, but blogs have either...

The ones that still exist don't exist in the way that they did in the past. And I liked the old And even if they're still there, they're very difficult to find because the internet has gotten so big. Yeah. What I used to like was the one guy writing his thoughts, and I like the personal development type stuff and the thought, thought-provoking things.

And so I basically just said, "Muse, every day I want you to go find me, and I'll kind of guide you on what I'm [01:09:00] interested in right now. But every day I just want you to go find me a kind of personal..." The old school... There's a guy named Steve Pavlina. I don't know if he still publishes anything or not. I used to love he wr- he had a blog.

I don't know if he... I c- I could look it up. I haven't even looked at it. I've read multiple articles now that have been sent to me from, from my Muse. But he had a, a very popular blog in, like, the, the 2000s called Personal Development For Smart People, and it was really good, like, thought-provoking stuff until he got...

He went on a tangent about polyphasic sleep. Not a pan... Not a tangent. I mean, he would get into something, and it would just be, like, gone off to the races for a while. And one was polyphasic sleeping, where you basically sleep, like, two hours and then you're up for, like, eight hours and then you would... It was, it's, it was an experiment.

He does, he did a lot of thought ex- thought experiments and stuff and things. For sure. But then he got super, he, the poly got really into be his thing and he got into whatever, basically [01:10:00] open relationships and he, you know, and that was, like, his thing for a while. And I was like, "This has lost me." Yeah.

"This has just lost me." And that's when I was like, "I'm out." Can't keep one woman happy. But there's a lot- I got to... Multiple? What are we doing here? Yeah. The, the, the one that I still read and I've talked before about is Leo Babauta. He's kind of like the Zen Habits guy. So Zen Habits, and I get those emails and I like his.

But, you know, the internet, nothing disappears from the internet, and I'm like, there are probably thousands of these blogs, many of which are still getting published but they're not easy to find. But more so ones that were being published in the heyday that you didn't have time to read back in 2008 'cause there were so many of them where they were harder to find then 'cause Google wasn't as good at figuring that stuff out.

And so every day I get an article, and sometimes they're from 10 years ago, sometimes they're from five years ago, sometimes they're from a year ago, sometimes they're from 20 years ago. In fact, the one that I was reading today is from 2005. And [01:11:00] I have just really stumbled onto some, every morning a great thought-provoking thing.

And then the next step was, "Okay, I get it and I cannot sit down at my computer or on my phone and read this thing," so the next step was read it to me. And so now, you know, it's basically like a podcast coming from And I have the hardest time finding the podcast that I want. Yeah. So every day I'm getting these, these things read to me, and it's just, it's, it's opened up a really cool opportunity to dive into some older stuff get some, you know, ideas from the past.

And you could do this with anything, guys. Like, you can do this with football, too. Like, you can... You know, there's football blogs out there. I had one. There's lots- There's actually lots of football blogs that are out there. It's not just, You know, mine used to have thousands of posts on it, and I took a lot, took most of them down, 'cause there's, like, the quality of the stuff that I wrote 20 years ago, which, [01:12:00] whether that was the right thing to do or not, it just, too mu- too much of it conflicted with what I was doing now and I was constantly having people be like- "You said this back then"

"You said this back in 2011." Yeah. And I'm like, "Yeah, I just didn't know what I was doing." You know, I was just trying to figure things out. Like, it's been 15 years, I'm sorry. Football changes. Yeah, things change. And you see the updated 4-2. If you, if, if all you have is the old 4-2-5 manual, you really need to get the second edition, badly.

So I really like it. It's free. Muse is completely free, and it has, like... I have not run into any usage limits. Grok Bot, I've run into usage limits, I had to pay for it, but I've never run into a usage limit with Muse. My w- I've got my wife on it now. She was just sitting on the couch before we started the podcast, finished dinner, and she's like, "Wonder if Muse can do this?"

Oh, yeah. I didn't even know what it was. And she was like, "Yep, can." Like, mm, yeah. It's, it's cool. Muse is a fun one to play around with. The the... ChatGPT started the business side or work or [01:13:00] whatever, and I think that's supposed to be its- So it has deep work that does more of a in-depth, but no, its agent is Dots, and right now Dots is only available at the $100 tier.

Yeah. I imagine it will come down. Yeah. But right now it is only at the $100 tier, so I have not used Dots. But yeah, I mean, Grok Bot at the $20 level can, can do everything, and Muse is free and can... It's just a different organization. It's Meta, right? Yeah. Yeah, that's what I meant. Yeah, and I mean, that's, that's the biggest thing is you've got to decide.

Like, you're, you're, you are giving a lot of information to Meta and X and, I mean, those are the companies that own those comp- own those, so- Yeah ... if you're not comfortable with that, that's, you know, that's the downside of it. For sure. For sure. I don't, I mean, obviously we u- I use ChatGPT a lot and, and for, have made business plans and all, like, all sorts of stuff.

Like, it, it just- ... I was, in fact, I was sitting in the deer stand this morning [01:14:00] and it started to rain, and I was like, "Man, how's it gonna rain?" And I got feed, goat feed and deer corn and chicken feed in, in the back of my truck I was like, "How can I..." ChatGPT, and I was like, "Listen, you're gonna... Every morning now at 6:30, you're gonna go off and give me a weather forecast, illumination, sun up, sun down BMNT, and EENT.

You're gonna give me seven-day forecast, next expected precipitation date, and then financial news." I basically, I made it a newspaper or a, a, I'm sure there's a better word for it, but yeah, every morning at 6:30 that's what it's gonna produce for me so that I don't mess that up again. But- Yeah. I've got a, I've got one that's just giving me football news because- Yeah, all my favorite teams, Red Sox, Sooners, all things Sooners.

I'm trying to start a little side project with just Sooner sports and, and work into the media there, and so it's, like, allowing it to to give me all their news in one place is gonna be great, 'cause then I can go write articles [01:15:00] on it or whatever after I do some research. Yeah. So anyway my level up is my kids have started sports a lot more this year, and for guys that are following along, my oldest has never been a...

He, matter of fact, he's told me multiple times he's never gonna play football. And and I'm, I'm okay with it. I'm not gonna force him to play anything. He's tried to get into soccer for a couple years. This year he did a complete season and had a huge maturity growth this year with actually going to practice, and I think once or twice he kinda threw a fit.

But even compared to T-ball in the spring, that was a huge difference. He's, he's really into like, okay, the team is important. So I drug him to one of my practices the other night, and we were doing tackling drills on a... It's kinda like buzz your feet. We run the bag this way or that way, and you gotta chase the bag down.

We're teaching run flat down the line of scrimmage, not arcing with the running back. And he got out there and did it. He got out there and did the tackle and, and the tackling drill a couple times. [01:16:00] And he said, you know, "That first one, man, that hitting the ground really hurt," 'cause he landed on top of a pretty dense brand-new tackling dummy.

And then he's like, "But the second time wasn't as bad 'cause I was ready for it." And I was like, "Yeah, dude, that's, that's football practice is, like, getting ready for that impact," right? But he's never done it. I'm a little worried, About putting him on a team now 'cause he's gotten so old. At the youth level, I'm afraid, just 'cause of what I've seen, guys.

I've, I've been a youth coach now for this whole season and I've seen a bunch of them that don't know what the hell they're doing. Yeah. When you get a team down 14 and they go unhinged and are cussing out first graders because their playbook design is terrible and they have no i- w- idea what they're doing as a coach.

Right. And the kids are just executing what they're given. Like, I'm really afraid to hand him off with no skills, no prior experience to a, what would then have to be a fourth grade youth coach. That worries me. So I don't know. That's the next thing is like how do I get him into a team? Do I gotta coach two [01:17:00] teams?

I don't know. Yeah. But seeing him get into sports has been really, really cool, and then Liam just finished up his flag football season yesterday. They lost in the semifinals in the playoffs, and man, his heart just bleeds football. He is just about sports, and that's been so cool for me because obviously I have you know, Becket's that's not, not been that, and that's my, that's my thing, man.

That's my niche is football. So- ... having Liam there is super cool and he's like, he's gonna start n- I did realize that at the first gr- or the pre-K level, which it's pre- it's, it's fourth or four, five, and six-year-old, so I guess 6U flag football. It's completely useless. Whether the coach was just terrible or there's just no skill there that's ever gonna translate to anything else in life.

Nothing. The guy was not prepared. It was just rotating, you know, pass the baton of who carries the ball. Doesn't matter who's good or bad. There's no block. There's no real tackle or, or [01:18:00] run fits, if you will. Every play is outside zone. Every play is just the quarterback takes the snap, turns around, gives it to the guy, and he runs where he can because none of them can throw.

So- Right ... there's no skills being taught whatsoever. And so I don't think we're gonna do that a- I think I'm gonna put him in tackle next year as a kindergartner, 'cause that's what we have here, and just get him a really, really nice helmet that'll protect his dome. Because we're obviously big brain boov around here.

We want to wanna protect that, so. But just so he gets skills that actually translate, whether it is fighting through an injury, or how to fit run, or how to tackle, or you know, what does a pass look like? Although there's not a lot of passing, but- Sure ... how are you blocking how to cut off people.

Just there's a lot of skills at first grade that we taught this year that are gonna be great when these kids grow up and go play varsity ball, and that flag crap's not doing it, so. Yeah. Anyway, yeah. So there's my level up, just my kids' sports. Their seasons are over. They both, I believe were both, well, Beckett made it to the championship [01:19:00] game and got second. Liam, like I said, lost in the semis. My youth team lost in the semis, so we're all done about the same time, and, and it's been a super cool... Once again, I wanna tell you guys, if you are really good at varsity football, but you might be feeling that burnout's just right around the corner, which we all are right now, so m- maybe in the spring decide.

But go jump into youth ball and teach fundamentals to kids who think you're a god. They think you know everything. There's no, "Oh, yeah, well, I watched this on Twitter last night," or, "That's not how Quentin Nelson blocks," which I just saw he got traded. Oh. Lots of th- they, they just are absorbing every- they're little sponges, and it, man, it was super refreshing as a coach to get back down there.

So there you go. All right, let's pay the bills and get out of here, Joe. Not sure that my son is gonna play a lot of youth football unless I'm coaching. Unless he really, really wants to, we'll figure it out, but- It's, it, it's so worth... Like you said, you have to coach it. I think that's the key, which is where I'm gonna be in a pickle, 'cause now I've got, gonna be a [01:20:00] fourth grader and a will be a kindergartner/first grade team.

So I gotta figure out how the hell I'm on two teams at once. 'Cause I'm just not, I don't trust Yeah. We haven't, I've had some contact with the, one of the local youth organizations and, like, it's been very receptive to, like, you know, th- those listen to the podcast and some of the guys in there listen to the podcast and been very receptive.

So maybe that's a potential. Like, if somebody I know is already, like, they're, they're doing my stuff, they're then at least I feel like we're on the right track, and that's a possibility- Yeah ... too, but, you know, we'll see. Yeah, so, we talked about it before, the November special offer is available right now.

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