Defensive Coverages | Football 101

An intro to the defensive side of the ball! This details covers basic assignments and plays used. Specifically, zone types, mana coverage, and coverages 1-5.

This is a high level overview of these topics and does not teach any variation or details, just an intro into the world of defensive football!

0:00 - Intro
0:24 - Man vs Zone
0:55 - Types of Zones
2:59 - Cover 0
4:06 - Cover 1
4:44 - Cover 2
5:33 - Cover 5
6:15 - Cover 3
7:20 - Cover 4
8:18 - Conclusion
8:43 - Film Examples

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[airlinehum]

I wish I knew about these videos before. Absolutely superb. Clear, concise, and easy to understand. Thank you!

[weakgrand]

Absolutely love your 101 videos. You don't just explain what the concepts are, but also the reasoning and intuition behind them. Would love to see a follow up one on d-line fronts and run fit. Keep killin' it man!

[mjciavola]

I'd be interested in the rest of the coverages.

[originalmorton]

You have been definitely helping me break down football more for I can see the real inner workings, like something's I've alwyas known but you're allowing me to see the game at a different level, big appreciation

[gezaradimeczky]

Hey! I am relatively new to football (grew up on the other side of the Atlantic playing the ball shaped football) but your videos are really fun and they are super useful for me. I would love to see some content about WR alignments, different receiver roles and route concepts. Keep up the good work!

[sandyscheeks]

Thank you for this🔥🔥 I am a new Football fan and compared to basketball, football is soo hard for me to understand maaan.
All those different kind of covers and plays messes up my head🤣🤣 I never had any football experience and never played it before, but Madden really got me into it, and when I try to play QB in madden i cannot read the defense at all and I just say f it, throw 5 picks and delete the build. So this video helped me understand a bit

[howardroy.williamsjr.]

I greatly appreciate your breakdown of the areas of the football field around 1 minute 10 seconds into the video. It infuriates me that most announcers today have no concept of the areas of the field. I'm seeing passes completed/attempted at the numbers, and the announcers are stating that the pass is over the middle. That's crazy!! I'm thinking isn't there a school that's supposed to train announcers?
Anything thrown at the numbers are deep outs or just outs generally speaking. You've got it covered brilliantly. I think there was one game where Trent Green was the commentator, and he mentioned the the pass being completed to the curl zone. Too many current announcers have no clue to the degree that it makes you want to mute the TV on listen to the radio broadcast. Keep doing what you do. P.S. Your video on routes was also A+.

[classvitreehouse]

Watched all ur guide videos and they helped me start watching football.

A fun name for ur series can be football 102 as its more in depth than all the other videos but are still watchable by absolute beginners like me

[TheBestHitman]

Phew, scared me there for a second. glad to have you back

[coleb]

You’re doing a great job with these man.

I DO NOT WANT TO CRITIQUE YOUR WORK AT ALL but if you really focus on cleaning up the audio and slow the delivery just a bit and add a little more emphasis and tone you could really take off as far as an educational channel.

Excellent work though and thank you.

[Cartern]

Make another video about more of these coverages and some defensive stunts that you can do in these coverages

[karolrosen]

Thanks!!
In another video talk about the other defensive coverages.

[unnes]

Hey I hope you take this suggestion the right way: Your video has great content and excellent visuals, but the audio of your voice is noticeably muddy and would be hard to hear clearly in a loud environment. This is already a great video but could be even better if you got a new mic or recorded in a more quiet area with less echo.

[Yfst]

For cover 3 and 4 you only showed 2 deep players. Why is that? Do the corners drop back to cover those zones?

[splattical]

FYI the Out zones are most commonly called cloud zone to my knowledge. I have never heard of out Zone

[Eidenhoek]

I'm amused by the fact that quarters coverage (Cover-4) and the "Quarter" formation, which is one with 7 defensive backs, are not the same *at all*

[Boy-ym]

Isn't the out zone also known as no man's land

[andremarcy]

So corner routes are your worst enemy in cover 2s?

[tactful_colt]

Use a different color background, anything other than white😂. I’m being absolutely blinded at 3am rn