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we are live welcome back tonight we're
gonna be talking about to reading palms
coverage my name is Chris Haddad steve
McGrath ryan swing go along side with us
as well
and what we're gonna do tonight it's
gonna be a little bit different I'm
gonna first walk through and be sleeping
around gonna walk through what is palms
coverage and the basics of palm coverage
and then after that we're gonna turn to
the offensive side and actually how to
beat palms coverage that way if you're a
defense coordinator or if you work with
the defense you understand where the
holes are and we have clips and cut ups
that a coach Wingull has brought up so
we're gonna take a look at those but
first before we actually get into these
clips and everything I'm gonna pull up a
playbook here and the way we're gonna do
it and you know Ryan's to even jump in
and as well what we're gonna do is we're
gonna go over from a playbook
perspective what it is the reads for
each position and exactly why we run
palms coverage but before we get going
you know Ryan Steve I've heard of it as
palms coverage to read trap robber throw
it any other names you guys know I mean
you guys would know better than I yeah I
know if you heard anything else from it
as far as the different types I see
mouth moving but I can't hear anything
my bad no I think that about covers all
of it when I was at Illyria High School
last year and was working with more the
defensive side of things we would call
it that true to rear clamp coverage I
know a lot of Saban guys are big on the
whole clamp deal especially when you're
running it to that uh run some sort of
pressure scheme to the backside of it um
and you're just basically going either
man without that underneath flat player
but that basically covers it obviously a
bunch of different ways you can call it
but the end of the day palms is palms
whether you call it to read palms trap
coverage it's all the same thing yeah
exactly and I think it's a good point
and especially I teach my players this
way I teach them the wide variety of the
names just because when they go on to
play college football they're not
sitting in a room and a coach is being
like we're gonna run to read coverage
and this is how they do it and in the
back of their head they're like I don't
know what to read is but they do it's
just palms coverage so alright I think
it's always good when you're teaching
that to teach all the names possible
whether it be to read palms
like I said trap robber to trap like I
said there's a million different names
for it but essentially from the core and
fundamental basics of it which we're
gonna be talking about tonight it's all
the same thing so the first thing we're
gonna talk about is just from a two by
two half field set and I drew this up on
the PlayBook from a half-filled set
we're only gonna be talking about the
right half here it's the same thing on
the left side too if you run a four to
five you know it's gonna be a split
field coverage where you have these
three working together right and on the
back side you'll have some man or you
can even pause into the boundary
wherever you decide but anyways we're
gonna be talking about these two
receivers over here with these three
combinations here and again Ryan's do
you feel free to jump in just add any
commentary as I'm going along here but
the premise of poms coverage is and it's
called trap coverage for reason you're
trying to trap number two and trying to
bait the quarterback into throwing a
football that he doesn't necessarily
want to throw and for our read here as a
corner we're gonna be staring directly
at number two okay
and typically the read is if this
receiver goes anywhere
five to seven yards and out he's gonna
jump him okay or rob him or trap him
okay now where this gets Shady and what
Ryan is gonna knock on a little bit when
we get
the offense is where is five yards where
seven yards I know for me I like to
teach seven yards I know some coaches
like to teach five yards so it all
depends where that breakpoint is but
you're in a shuffle a slow backpedal
whatever it is and the minute he breaks
out words okay we're gonna jump on him
right away okay
even if he bubbles out again this is a
way to stop these bubble teams to get
some high pressure on them as well you
can teach your guys to go around you can
teach them go to the inside but
regardless to triggering now okay it's
just a way to try to get a TfL in the
backfield from your corner position to
try to hit Annie on the bubble screen
okay if he goes vertical typically
coaches have him stay vertical okay and
the reason being if we get any corner
route or anything that falls on top of
the corner they can drop and sink into
it okay so so far we have if it goes out
we're gonna jump him if he goes vertical
we're gonna stay vertical okay if he
goes into the inside we're gonna stay
put where we are and get our eyes back
to number one okay because he's our only
threat there so really there's only
three things this receiver can do you
can go in he can go out or he can go
vertical and that's what this corners
reading here and he's triggering as soon
as he gets that out that's coming
directly to him guys you want to add
anything to the corner position before I
move on to the safety and and outside
back just one thing I think that you can
you briefly touched on which is kind of
having that true landmark of whether it
be five seven one and whatever the case
may be I know me and you were talking
about talking about beforehand but
giving good visual cues and giving good
landmarks what would that be what is
that true linebacker depth and if that's
where you're gonna have that breakpoint
be of when if two carries to that
certain point then he's considered
vertical and now the safety would be
taking him but for the when is that
point of that break to where he does
make that out cut now the corners going
to jump him just having those clear
guidelines having that clear
communication of where that point is
where he does truly declare either as a
vertical player or as a player into the
flat absolutely yeah I think that's
that's probably the hardest part of this
coverage is to have that player you know
and to teach that player that hey you
need to build a job
because when it gets to 78 yards it does
you a little shady right as a corner
you're not sure so it's good as to your
point Ryan just to echo it to have those
landmark of I need to trigger and jump
him now that way I don't get caught in
the that okay just moving on to the next
one - and this is I'll go with the
safety last thing very like the I
discipline with the safety is is really
key the outside back here gonna be your
Sam or whoever it may be he's gonna be
stuck on number two as well so this
whole defense is predicated off reading
this number two here if the two goes out
okay and just knowing football and
football combinations if two goals out
you're really getting one back in or
you're gonna get one vertically one of
the two is gonna happen okay so when he
sees that to go out he's gonna look back
to that one to the inside if two goes
vertical and this is the technique I
teach and Ryan I'm not sure how you guys
teach it but if he goes vertical I'm
trying to get hands on him to widen him
and then I'm keeping my eyes on one here
just in case we do get any smash
principles so hands on to the eyes on
one as they're carrying him through if
he wants to go underneath we're trying
to deny the inside and make him run the
hump but if he clears and is out of
there I'm looking left the backside or
I'm looking one back underneath right I
anything to add on or Steve anything
that on the same I know I think just
having that good rear out is the biggest
thing especially when you look at from
an offensive perspective when it come
down and like timing of routes and we're
trying to get to by the time the
quarterback gets to a certain point in
his drop I think it's big looking at now
from a defensive perspective is how can
you disrupt that how can you not give
him a clean release and some of the
stuff that I'll talk about from an
offensive perspective coming up we're
looking for that clean release whenever
we can get it so if the defense isn't
getting hands on to reroute isn't really
walling off the inside if you do want to
come underneath or you want to break it
off over the top just getting some sort
of hands on getting so I'm sort of a
reroute is the biggest thing from that
overhang player yeah and just another
point to dad right away you said if you
do let him street down the field without
getting hands on him he's putting
pressure on that safety fast and then
you can break him in or out it just
makes his day an absolute nightmare so
just being able to get hands on
to disrupt this route it's a big part of
this coverage okay so moving on to the
safety perspective his eyes again are on
- and I have him misaligned slightly
here we want him a little bit to the
inside I usually have them two yards on
the inside shoulder and about eight to
10 yards depth and again what we're
reading here is same thing if he's gonna
go out okay our eyes have to flash back
to one because one thing that does beat
palms is this whole shot on B as this
wide receiver begins the wideness depth
if you want the field okay so if he's
out he's gonna get over to one
especially if he gets vertical there if
we have number one pressing to the
inside he's dry excuse me number two is
dragging now he's gone he eliminates
himself again our eyes are back to one
we're checking for - coming through the
middle and then of course if he's gonna
carry vertical or any forward situations
he's gonna stick with them on the vert
there so again in our vertical
principles that helped form
Tomsk of despair installing this day one
just teaching you guys that in out
vertical principles and just know what
can threaten you and what number two is
doing and be able to react to hit be
able to see you react to him as quick as
possible
receive ain't an add-on number - nope
nope you don't get about that absolutely
yeah so uh coach L some good question
yes so he said what are you used for
alignment for your corner do you have
them a 45 degree outside leverage for
one eyes on two so that's a good
question so in the past and Curtis I'm
actually glad you're here we actually
ran this against you and the clip I'm
going to show here so I'd simply like
him to the outside shoulder facing in at
a 45 in the past and the clip you're
gonna see here I had him about five to
six yards depth moving forward I believe
I'm gonna happen 3 to 4 yards depth I
just think it cleans up the read and it
gives the quarterback if we're trying to
bait him I'll be deeper but if I'm
trying to play just regular base defense
he'll be closer ok and you know
especially for like a team that's a
heavy bubble team or a heavy flat
team that's when we'll have our guys
lamp to about 78 yards and I'm telling
that corner load up on your back foot
for the first three seconds and then
getting your shuffle to get out if you
get that out now let's trigger down and
go hand with that thing so to answer
your question yeah it's it would be head
up to outside is where I want his
leverage okay right you want to add on
to that as far as leverage Wes no I'm
good I I think just like the biggest
question that I've seen come up is like
or cannot really question but like Olli
this just looks like this is this is
basically just cover to but I think the
biggest differentiation between the two
coverages of that corner being the true
flat player and like a hard cover to or
even a cover to sink is he's like really
in cover to is really trying to play
that flat as his first priority and even
if you are playing some sort of like a
to sink where the court where the corner
is gonna try to reroute that outside
receiver inside and then sink with him
until two appears into the flat is in
this quarters palms look as his first
priority is to get depth out of his drop
and then react late whereas in cover two
it's more of that hard flat or that true
cover to look up to where he is having
that first priority and four in first
part of his thought process being into
that true cover to look exactly it's a
great point yep yeah and just to add on
to Coach Olsen's question here about the
leverage and where he is to the outside
again and I played the several ways to
where we'll have our corner actually
punch number one and still have his eyes
on to just to disrupt that fade row if
they are trying to throw that hole shot
you know or he can just bail out of it
I've done that too we're showing
essentially like a press man and then we
bail out of it and then still have the
ice on too so there's a lot of different
shake-up so you can do but you know
palms are still palms you're still
you're just window dressing it just a
little bit okay and then the clip I just
wanted to show here and is just guys I
had to dig back to a few years we had a
clean clip on this and this is just
coach I don't know what you called here
but it looks like this a simple fade out
concept and what I see here is number
two at the bottom of the screen just
gonna work on a simple out route here
and we're playing trap coverage we're
number 23 is gonna gum come in
and make this hit simple CI slant flat a
concept and we're just hopping on him to
hit him again moving forward I would
like probably for him to be a little bit
closer I think that will stir up the
read a little bit more for the
quarterback a big portion of this too
and this is where you know Ryan's gonna
talk about this a little bit too if your
safety is late the slant flat concept
can hurt you because as your corners
clearing out if your safety doesn't
trigger down to one we're gonna leave a
big open window right here and you can
see the safety here I got a little bit
lazy triggering down but soon as that
two leaves that I the eyes of number has
to go back to number one excuse me to
trigger down to be able to hammer that
slant if not there's gonna be a huge
window there for him to hit it but
against a short shuffle out being able
to jump on it and then even get a big
hit there again that's why they call
robber coverage or trap coverage because
you do get that that big hit or you do
get interception if the quarterback
doesn't rifle that ball out there now do
you want that overhang players screaming
so hard into the flat on this or what
are what are your coaching points I know
we kind of talked about briefly as far
as when to goes out we're kind of
looking more for one to either come back
in and kind of condense that until one
hits us in the face but what are your
coaching points that overhang in this
situation yeah it's a great question too
and I primarily pulled this clip up just
for the corner play of this because
these two are not where I want them to
be right now number two should be try
going down to that slant once you see
two's coming out and this overhang
player I don't want him going too far
out because once two is going out
there's no by him vacating like he did
just like a wide open slant bright
window open and this kids a stud right
now UNH right now he's if he catches
that ball of us he's gone right so
that's one kid we don't want to have the
football but you know he knows and we
talked about this when he came back to
the sidelines that he can't believe in
that vacated zone I want him right there
stay where he is once two is going out I
wear his eyes back to one and hanging in
that hook the curl area yep
okay switch back to the playbook here
okay so that's just the general basics
of to read and like I said you could
install it with any outside back or
corner safety combination I know a lot
of coaches I'll just draw this up right
now if you are running off for a true 4
to 5 will have some sort of this look
here and let me drag everything he has
to we're into the boundary will see this
look will they'll play some sort of
quarters coverage to this side and then
they have their will cheat the Box just
a little bit and be able to play the
palms coverage to this side so there's
different variations you can do with
this palms coverage but at its core
essentially if you trying to kill any
bubble teams or coach Cowher did someone
say palms for those who run a little bit
more in-depth look we're talking just
pure bunt fundamentals and basics right
now for those who want a more advanced
look at at palms and coach guard as a
fantastic job he comes on our clinic
every year we're gonna link that
coaching hours video at the bottom of
this video you guys can go check that
out so what we're gonna do now is
transition to the offensive part of this
segment and coach well I'm gonna have
you share your screen so you can take
over it this is how to and like I said
we want to show you the basics of it
from a defensive standpoint so if you're
a coach lookin 8 install palms you can
install it but also you need to know how
its beat ok so that way you can protect
against itself and plug all the holes if
you're getting gashed while running this
is one of your main coverage you know
exactly how to plug it up so I'm gonna
pass over now to coach Swingle he's
gonna run through a couple clips and
just a couple different things that you
can do to be poms coverage no doubt so
first thing I kind of want to talk about
obviously a pretty good explanation of
what true palms looking like but I kind
of wanted to touch on just the second
variation that all look for when I'm
scouting a defense and something that we
ran with some success last year that I
think there are obviously we talked
about what are the weaknesses do it is
when they do want to bring so we talked
about when they want to put that will
into the boundary and still run so if we
got a 2 by 2 look here putting this
tight under our Y flexed out
if we were to move this over into the
boundary like this bring in some sort of
either in a four-man front a single back
side will pressure or if you were to
have an odd front bring in this buck
backer off the edge as well or the jack
whatever you want to call them and then
in this case it's more of a man through
man coverage principle to where we're
basically just playing to read on these
two guys
so if number two wants to go out into
the flat we'll still have the same to
read rules leave some more underneath
stuff especially depending on what depth
the safety is playing at if he is
playing at a true 8 to 10 yards depth of
as a lot of Palms teams will play a
better look for us on offense in my
opinion as far as space to operate with
when we're losing this backside flat
player in the late force player so I
think some different things you can do
off of that we're looking at from a game
plan perspective are the main true split
field versions that you can look at as
well as some different answers to three
by one as well whether you're reading 2
to 3 and Manning up number one with some
mag looks or some mod looks depending on
what that corner is playing if you want
to poach that backside safety to match 3
coming across and leaving that back side
corner so if we were to go into a true 3
by 1 look with this Y or the tight end
coming back across the formation to make
a true trips look here well essentially
what I'm saying here because if this
safety is gonna look to rob3 coming
across as opposed to leaving this inside
linebacker on an island having to match
three vertical and we'll just man up
play some press coverage with this
backside corner so those are some of the
variations that I look for as far as
we're looking at that true split field
and looking to put together a scouting
report when we're looking to attack it
so first we'll look at some of the stuff
that I like a 2 by 2 to a couple
different variations the first thing is
when we do get this backside pressure if
you're looking to go some sort of a
quick game looking to go maybe like a
stick concept or something like that to
the front side here looking to take
advantage of that double slant on the
backside of some sort of a quick game
when you get some blitz pressure and
they want to play a true clamp coverage
or to read on the back
the reason for that is we get both the
guys on in braking routes they're losing
this hooked a flat player or the curl a
flat player on the backside being this
will so once both of them break in on
the slant routes you should hit number
two for a wide-open window right in here
and then if for some reason they didn't
want to roll down and jump this the
corner with looking to have a slight
bail technique to to in this more this
man look either you should be reading
backside number two to backside number
one versus this more this man variation
of quarters as far as just a half-filled
based thing that you can run at the
entry level of high school I think a lot
of teams run in this true quarters
concept or the palms quarters concept is
a post wheel combination so the post
wheel will do a few things for you we're
gonna get the post here by the outside
receiver obviously if we're going into
the boundary want to kind of widen the
splits out but we'll look at this from a
true know the field look trying to
create as much space as possible in this
spread RPO based world but a lot of
people of are living in nowadays so here
we'll run the outside number one run
post route is looking to really keep
this skinny when we talk about having
that poked coverage potentially having a
backside safety looking to help out if
we could get some man looks on the
backside and with him they're really
trying to take away maybe someone to the
front side of our passing strength here
different looks we want to keep this
front side post skinny to really put
this safety in conflict number two here
will be run a wheel route so get into
the flat and then we're breaking up the
side line on a wheel route more of a
high level deal here that we can do off
of this wheel concept is having it turn
into a reed wheel so what a reed wheel
is for me once he gets as this flexed
out receiver once he gets to about 10 to
12 yards teens to make a decision of
whether the corner or a safe the over
him if he has capped or uncap so if we
have
some soft coverage by the corner or a
safety really playing hard over the top
to where I'm not winning vertical over
the top he can just sit down right here
at about 10 to 12 yards and work back
show a big chest at the quarterback but
if you don't trust your guys your guys
aren't at that level maybe a younger
group of players where you don't want
them to read coverages just this true
post Weil can put this in conflict and
the reason why is we get this breaking
out into the flat so this corner will be
forced to jump number two but now once
we break it up onto the wheel he's
really put in one-on-one coverage now
once number two breaks out to the flat
this corner his immediate thought should
be to get over the top to stop one and
going vertical once he really starts to
get out at that 45 degree angle to try
to cut off one over the top especially
if you can run this to the field and he
has a lot more ground to cover he's
gonna really try to open this hips up
and run we can press a vertical here
about 12 to 15 yards once we get to that
seventh step really picking that timing
step to the inside snapping off of our
outside step here being our left foot on
that seven step and snapping it skinny
on the post trying to win inside of that
safety if for some reason this guy was
really sitting hard on number two we
still want to keep that skinny now we're
trying to get more over the top of him
so as we kind of inside release this
route and we are forcing the inside
release on this post wheel concept by
the post player once we get that good
inside release we should have our eyes
immediately affixed to that safety and
keeping it skinny regardless but just
knowing we might be breaking it more off
on a true skinny skinny post if he
doesn't want to sit hard on that hash
and not really get any depth and I'm
looking at this from a defense
perspective right we're seeing that
pressure really beyond that cornerback
because he's got to decide because the
reads declare himself early right it's
like hey number two is going out okay
one's gonna pick him up but that corner
doesn't know do I sit with one or the
new number one that's coming around the
edge like what do I do right that's what
the conflict we're looking here right
yeah I think for the quarterback the
read here is as few key as if you can ID
this palms coverage number one looking
at the safety
if he doesn't want really try to fight
over the top to take away like the wheel
or something like that we can look to
work the post but if he doesn't want to
sit on that post and sit more on the
hash now we should know if we can get
that pre-snap idea of palms covered
within our scouting report within our
pre-snap checklist know that we have
that one one on the corner really
getting that advantage of him biting
down onto the flat route especially if
we can turn our shoulders so a lot of
people will teach I know as well for
that corner not to trigger until the
quarterback shoulders turn so if we can
even get especially in like a game plan
sense if we do want to get like a
play-action or a pump fake truly get
that corner to bite hard onto the flat I
think that's a big piece to look at as
well as far as an overall concept
perspective yeah for sure coach Dan
Olson the chat says we use our receivers
if we're even relieving and if we have
cushion with pushing so I like that a
lot as that we nice lit up saw an off
we're chopping and dropping and then
even we're leaving that that's our
that's our terminology for it for the
read wheel component yeah um the second
piece of this is a true so we can run
this out three by one or two by two but
really just having this boundary read to
whatever side of the field so that this
would be more of a boundary concept same
read wheel principle for number two so
we'll run the wheel if this corner
really wants to fly out and carry some
depth and we know that we're not going
to beat him deep and he stopped and off
a chop and drop and sit down onto this
read concept or where we are gonna snap
it off onto a stop route if he doesn't
want to jump down here now and really
play the out cut hard we'll continue on
this read we look up the hash on the
wheel now number one will be a little
bit different so he's gonna inside
release underneath this overhang player
so hopefully the thought is is I have
this overhang is gonna declare and push
wide like we saw in your clip yeah yep
or he's gonna sit here and wait and now
we will just continue up the seams this
is kind of like that hunter out though
we'll talk about that post curl read
this is just more of a curl read here so
we're going to so we're gonna break hard
inside go underneath here with the
number two exchanging on this release
here then we're gonna come up the seam
as if we're running a vertical so now if
it's the it's the same thing it's this
read progression if we are uncapped in
this safety and wants to veil off the
hash and really try to get over the top
or they want to rotate down and play
some sort of like a cover three look or
a buzz look to where he's gonna insert
as the hook player or he might rotate
down and as the flat player if he is
uncapped and we have a open release up
the same on this vertical route we will
continue to take it if not we will sit
down so ideally this is a look we're
gonna get verses poems or we could have
a double sit concept and really open up
this window and I do have some film
cut-ups of this that we'll look at here
in a second I think this is a great
quarters leader I think it's something
that can work against a lot of coverages
and I think when you see that cover
three look and you force someone like
some throw of a cover three look where
this flat player is really gonna be
trying to screen that hard
whether it be matched covered whether it
be a true zone drop coverage he is gonna
be matching two into the flat and
pushing to that so if we do get this
coverage three look ideally where
they're gonna rotate to the back side of
this when the safety rotates over the
top
this guy expands out this team shot
should be wide open um working up the
seam here if they were to uncap this
here something this is a really good
concept for a variety of urges not just
a quarters beater and having options
within the route to have answers to a
multitude of coverages that's great
two other things I want to talk about
real quick before got into some film one
was just a double post concept so I like
to do this a lot of times off a play
action to something that will do a lot
at Oberlin College talking about it
actually in our past game review today
so a double post concept off of a boot
deal flip the back to the other side
so we're gonna be booting off of this
just faking like a true inside zone
player wide zone whatever your base run
scheme is we're gonna be faking zone
going here true boot rules the tight end
is gonna be pinning to spinning so he's
gonna be pinning down this backside
defensive end this backside cGAP player
we're going to try to protect this
quarterback as long as possible so that
we're not running it like a true naked
we want to do make this a true boot
concept we can have the option to put a
tag on it to pull this guard as an
escort sick or sicko Pooler
to have that second line of defense
against things sort of overhang trigger
so we don't have immediate pressure into
the quarterbacks face but the base look
that we'll look at tonight he's pinning
the spinning so if we can get this
linebacker sucked inside ideally we want
to pin him down and then late we'll
release out as the late flat player um
so for the double post look to the front
side of it we'll be running a comeback
he'll be released on the comeback
sitting down to occupy this backside
safety and the backside corner hopefully
is the ideal look and then on this
backside here we'll be running an inside
release post really trying to grab the
inside hand of this safety on the
backside here we'll be running the
skinny post not trying to get any
farther inside than that hash so that if
this does get taken away here we can
really hit it over the top of late put
our foot in the ground and get it over
the top for a big gain especially
against this palms look where they're
gonna be looking to play more of a true
man coverage and chase on this post deal
I think that play-action sense of it
allows so when we're talking about how
we look at from a defensive perspective
a lot of times teams will knife this
defensive end inside to try to spill it
to this overhang player with him not
having that immediate past threat
responsibility so if we can play action
fake sell a good fake and get this guy
to bite down and not get that rear out
if we can get him on a clean release
over the top of that safety I think it
does a lot of good stuff for us as far
as inside releasing getting behind this
overhang player not necessary
to the drastic nature that I have drawn
up here but just like inside release
trying to get those a nose with this
corner then stemming upfield and then
really breaking hard to grab as an
inside hand on the post you can do this
I have a true drop back I just really do
like that action that the boot deal puts
off of it and I think a lot of times
Safety's to once they see that boot away
they don't remember to really cover
anything backside because not a lot of
teams will look to hit this backside
post they're more looking to try to cut
this crosser on a backside over out as a
lot of teams will run off the boots like
a true waggle look but here if we can
get that skinny post grab the inside
hand of the safety no matter if they do
want to try to poach this on the
backside especially this 2x2 look with
that tight on staying in a lot of times
this backside safety will be poaching
and one thing I do have some good film
cut ups of this ya and rack can you talk
a little bit about you mentioned a few
times but that inside stem to get
vertical to you use the term grab the
inside hand of that safety can you just
talk a little bit more maybe in
simplistic terms of what you mean by
grabbing the inside hand and why we want
to do that so in this very end this
picture here the inside hand as far as
when we're looking from the offensive
perspective would be the right hand of
the safety so once I do press inside
ideally this guy's going to be getting
some depth maybe a little bit of width
off of his drop off of his initial read
wherever he ends up off of his drop I
want to try to get nose to nose to him
so that way he doesn't have leverage on
me we take away and attack his initial
leverage once we do take away his
initial leverage and don't get and give
us more of a two-way go we can snap off
of his inside hand so if he was a little
bit depth off this hash I'm looking to
match that so whether I have two inside
release all the way to the hash once
this guy kind of declares down into the
run fit a little bit hopefully is the
thought process behind boot is that we
can get more of a clean release under
the safety and a lot of times in this
palms look he will be automatically over
the top of number two anyway Chris
because this guy is the inside leverage
player and he's out of the run fit in
the run fit responsibility so he can be
truly over number two with the ability
to get over the top and number one so a
lot of times he's already starting in
that
in that position so in this case we
wouldn't have to get as far of an inside
release it's getting nose and nose with
them attacking him forcing him to
hopefully open up his hips or if he
doesn't want to try to drive on us at
the early trying to grab that inside
hand so in this case would be the inside
hand would be alright his left hand from
a defensive perspective and just trying
to take him with us and if he doesn't we
should be the person hoping if he does
want to drive on us now it should leave
this window over the top to throw it
into the green grass over there for that
second pose perfect it's good
explanation good alright last thing I
want to talk about before we got into
the film with some of this stuff one way
and this is kind of going into an
overall thought process not just the
concept itself is using stack alignments
and some short motion from an outside
receiver to take advantage of this so
when they are trying to read 2 2 1 1 2 2
having some sort of that read component
I think Chris you can touch on it to
having the stack alignment not only just
from a stagnant pre-snap to where if we
were to just line up in this sort of
like a stack look it's not ideal for a
defensive teaching I feel like
especially at the high school level it's
hard to teach these guys to do some sort
of a to read or a Palms look when they
are in the stack alignment teaching
first-in first-out or what happens if
one and two go but both go in or things
like that especially last year we had
some trouble on when teams would get
into the stack look even in from its
from a stagnant look let alone if we
were to start out here do some pre snap
motion a lot of times you'll see the
Patriots do this into some condensed
formations so motioning a guy like
Edelman to be into the stack alignment I
think is a big winner here in this palms
look when they're trying to read number
one number two I went a little bit
harder to declare who number one and who
number two are so we'll motion use some
short motion from an outside receiver
ideally in this concept more of a
speedier that julienne element type guy
your true hybrid guy that you're looking
to get the ball to out on your bubble
screens the guy that's the best
runner on your team and if you do have
some of those slot option routes some
choice routes as some teams will call I
think this is that guy that you want to
run this side to so will short motion
him in and he'll have that that choice
route I'm here from what was initially
the number one receiver so he'll
continue on that inside release Nam now
he's reading the pre and post snap
leverage of this overhang player so if
this overhang player does have inside
leverage on him so if he wants to really
settle into this buzz technique he's
gonna break undo a speed out so if he's
inside he's going outside now he wants
to drop similar to that play that we saw
of your guy dropping out into the flat
to be that true flat player and expand
for with now we're just gonna have that
option for the choice route to break it
underneath it okay
so he has the two way go that the option
here the number one what ends up being
the number one receiver but initially in
my thought process is gonna be that true
that Y type so that bigger receiver
maybe a X or Z in your offense or Y as
in this case for a tight on alignment
he's gonna be running a bench route so
he's gonna inside release lose some
width
try to create some confusion for the
defense so with this guy inside
releasing as well
it gives that confusion of sort of like
a cross or a rub look he's gonna inside
release him ideally looking to stack the
safety or stem to where he's attacking
the leverage of this safety he's gonna
press up vertical for about 12 to 15
yards once he gets to 12 to 15 he is
gonna really try to sell this inside
stick and now stem back out to the
outside here so we gets from that like
bench concept that a lot of teams will
run to where you either have the speed
out or the corner but here when we have
that option we can sort of option off of
leverage of number two so this will be
the primary read for the quarterback
he's gonna be looking to read this side
first and then come back to the backside
late and this is where it gets
it's a little freaky so we're gonna have
a smash read concept on the back side
wall so this is more of that next level
algebra to stuff where you are putting
in some option routes and some read
routes so we're gonna have the wide
depart hitch as we call it where he's
just running that simple hitch route and
now number two and this is ideally where
if we can get game planet to where they
are gonna run where this guy is
triggering and they ran that to read
look that talked about where it's more
of that true man concept and there's a
good clip that I have coming up of where
they were going to cover 0 look with
some potential to read rules and do it
for this play the routes were ran very
well
quarterback read wasn't necessarily the
best but it you can see how it works out
here so number two against two high
coverage so against in this palms look
here he'll be attacking the leverage of
the safety here versus too high he has
the option based on where that safeties
leverages so if he's inside he's gonna
be breaking out onto the corner like a
true smash concept if he is playing
outside so if he starts to get some
width off of it or obviously we're
talking about palms here but if they're
on some for like a true split field
coverage where maybe they're wrong and
covered too and he's looking to haul ass
out of there and get some depth and gets
him with if he does get out of there and
we do have winning leverage at the
inside we'll just change our route here
and break it down to the post now if
they're in a 1 hi look he's always in
forever under this corner route as we
want to kind of put this corner and a
bind here versus one high safety so we
are looking to leverage to option the
leverage of the near safety whether that
be in one high we're always going to be
option to the outside into high this is
where that true read component comes off
of the corner read action here so the
quarterbacks read initially is gonna be
Honda the safety so he wants to take
this initially once again looking at big
picture looking at matchups if this is
your guy and you got this linebacker
pushed out you should be looking to get
to that option guy also knowing the
situation is at third and 12 maybe I
should look to really press this corner
if this safety has outside leverage and
takes the corner
this is the scenario that we'd want to
work more back to this corner read book
so if this safety does want to fly out
this middle of the field is wide ass
open yeah yeah so he's gonna fly out
onto this corner out from the backside
once the quarterback kind of gets almost
to the top of his drop he should snap
his eyes back around and get his eyes
back to this backside number-two route
especially in this too high look if he
can see that no safety rotation we get
it true both sides are on split field
palms coverage if this safety wants to
work and we don't win on this corner out
or we're not looking to get to the
option route now we can work to the back
side of this corner read if you want to
play outside the middle the field wide
open if he wants to hang on this hash
obviously looking to make sure that that
corner does settle on the wide apart
hitch and as long as he does we should
have the access to the corner room as
well it's good it's good stuff no I know
you got films let you know while you're
pulling that up I just want to make a
few comments I love that short motion
right because I think that really does
put that read from that corner it
muddles it up a little bit right because
now you don't know if he's gonna go past
number two so it does my read change to
the new number two becomes new number
one and it just screws everything up for
the cornice I really like that
combination of that show emotion no
doubt it's it's some good stuff I think
just having those options and having
answers like and there's a couple
different concepts that will run to the
front side of that as well
whether that be putting like a mesh
concept into it to where we'll run a
couple Drive routes or a mesh route
doing some stuff where we can have
answers that whatever coverage you might
see I think keeping it like that same as
teaching I think in marrying those
concepts together to make it an easy
read for the quarterback is something
that we're looking to do here and
something we've had success with in the
past
yeah and just before you gets these cut
ups here just I guess the bigger point
is when you're trying to beat palms
coverage you're trying to manipulate it
right and I think that's why and I know
for a fact that's why that's why we
started this whole presentation with
here's what palms is that way you can
learn the basics and the fundamentals of
it because you have to manipulate it by
manipulate in the corner or the safety
or like you mentioned there the inside
linebacker - by having that stack look
so everything you do especially when
you're beaten palms is how can we put
them in a position where they're gonna
be wrong
right so here on this first cut up we're
looking at that that read wheel the read
vertical so here number one's gonna
inside release kind of wrap this this
overhang defender here so he's looking
to get inside to get over the top of him
and now if he's capped by the safety
he'll sit down the hole and same thing
for number two he's on this read wheel
look he's going into the boundary and
this corner wants to slough off or he
sees this safety really flying hard over
the top he's gonna sit down and convert
it on to a stop row
so ideally we're gonna have this guy fly
out with the wheel route the quarterback
Simon being initially looking having
this triangle read that a lot of people
will talk about is we're going to be
reading this coverage triangle right
here so reading through the ala defender
to the safety and peek into the corner
late so look at this play here they are
both going to chop and drop versus soft
coverage so we do get some late
expansion here I would like to see the
number one receiver kind of push more
inside and really sit into this window
doesn't do a great job of it here but
kind of gets back to it late and the
Corvette is a good job of recognizing
the coverage seeing that flat defender
fly out now you can even see these
safeties eyes once he sees going how he
kind of snaps out now he's screwed a
little bit too late working back down to
the stopper out from number what was
initially number one who turned in the
number two spear son
here's this cover zero looks their own
and cover zero and they'll keep this
middle player is more that wrap defender
but they do have the option to either to
do some to read stuff to the back side
so this corner is looking in and they do
have there is some game playing that you
can look at to where teams might run
these man concepts where they give them
the freedom to do some sort of trap
coverage if they are into the boundary
or they feel like the split is shallow
enough to get there so here we're going
to be looking at this wide apart hitch
from number one back side number two
we're gonna be getting this corner read
look here so we can be option the
leverage off the safety here the safety
kind gets and opens his hips towards
trying to cover the vertical and he'll
snap back underneath and one on the
inside so the quarterback just sees the
off coverage takes the hitch route but
we're looking for its third and nine and
we don't need the hitch we need the
corner read or we need to be looking to
some sort of underneath route they be
clearing across but if I'm looking at
what the quarterback should be doing
here you should know the situation a
little better its third and nine we
don't need six yards on a hitch we need
nine yards
over zero you can match up on the safety
see him turn his hips out here a little
bit seller political attack his leverage
he's opening up here especially against
a dude in the slot who's one of your
better players one of your more athletic
players would like him to throw across
the corner a little bit more but knowing
that it is covered here we have to kind
of warm our routes up a little bit make
it a little more sense of urgency
knowing that the quarterback might be
speeding up his drop and get to our
landmarks a little bit quicker than if
it was a palms look or true drop seven
type of look yes that's tough for safety
a flat footed read without any catch
press or any contact trying to cover a
slot receiver running as fast as he can
out of his stuff yeah and that was the
big thing that we saw as like some some
issues as far as when we would we
you like the I call it quarters lock to
where you're bringing that backside
pressure so we were in hod front last
year and we would bring the boundary
overhang as well as the boundary inside
linebacker so our our will and our Rover
is what we would call it so the two
boundary linebackers would both come on
the Blitz out of that three-man front
making it a five-man pressure and we
would give that backside safety in the
backside corner the option if they felt
comfortable with running to read the
safety would treat up to about six or
seven yards and they'd play that true to
read concept within a true man principle
to the backside while we're running
matched quarters to the play side really
putting the emphasis on knowing that we
can't get beat across our face as that
high hole player from our mic knowing
that he doesn't really have any help on
the backside as far his own players say
we take the hitch don't love it but
here's some motion and I do like motion
as well especially when we're looking at
teams that might run some sort of a that
pressure so in this case what we would
have done last year is we would have
brought this guy maybe this guy I mean
they've lined up a little bit
differently then we might have we would
bring two guys off the back end and lock
up this number one receiver we play some
quarters or the front side just some
different options and if they're gonna
do that motioning from three by one to a
two by two alignment really kind of
dicks with the defense just saying that
what is their check to that and I know
for us it's hard to communicate
especially when you're doing this split
field coverage deal when they have a
check two trips and then getting back to
whatever their base call was especially
when you're running man principles maybe
bringing some pressure to the back side
so if I can ID that in a game plan
scenario getting them into a situation
where we do know that they might run
this quarters lock in bang and bring
some pressure to the boundary motioning
from three by one to the field to two by
two comb across into the boundary I
think is something good to look at here
so they do carry that guy to give a man
look but it is more of like
variation of quarters here and see true
quarters look where they're gonna carry
with number two into the flat and this
is that that bench corner read this will
be the bench side so we'll run the speed
out here with the corner on the backside
just a little bit different version of
it here so we'll run the drive route
from the outside receiver and hope
you're on the corner read doesn't do a
very good job of running the quarter of
the corner read here he kind of gets
pushed for whist that's thing that you
talked about in your presentation is as
this overhang player I don't want to
give this guy a clean release up to the
safety so if he gets that clean release
that's when he forces that safety to
open up his hips forces him to break
down that cushion and now he has a two
way go off and if we can get this rear
out and expand them to the outside like
that one it's messing up the timing of
the quarterback so if the quarterback
was to come off of his initial read like
he kind of does here and doesn't hit the
drive so if they want to match that
drive coming across like if they don't
bring this this bit of this like same
pressure look here whatever yeah if they
were to truly drop eight and match this
driver out coming across or if this
linebacker was to jump this and he were
to have to come back to this corner each
side he's kind of screwed just because
this guy is now running throwing it from
and this is Division three football
doesn't Division one dude who has the
arm talent of some of these high level
guys to throw from the opposite hash
throwing a corner out to the field is
one of the hardest throws if not the
hardest throw in all football so pushing
him to truly get him outside of the
numbers is not what we want offensively
and that's not a very good job by our
slot receiver there doesn't do a very
good job of being the press coverage so
a good defensive teach tape here as well
yeah but why would make adjustments
while we create the different tags for
it get that dry out coming across clear
him on the high-low some good stuff
there
and here's that the boot off the double
post look here so we did take this from
some Oklahoma stuff we're gonna fake a
run action going this way and this why
or an h-back whatever you want to call
it in your offense it's gonna be that
pin to spend players if he's gonna try
to his immediate thought is I need to
block the ste gap player that C gap
player maybe whether it's the stand-up
linebacker a defensive end whoever that
contain player is within the defense
he's gonna pin him down initially and
then if he is not an immediate threat or
we can pin him inside he's not trying to
take away the boot action we can spin to
the flat lake will run the come back
here from number one try to hold down
this corner and now off of the backside
action will run the skinny post for
number one will run the grab post number
two trying to attack this inside
leverage to either force this safety to
come across on the first post and now
this whole area of green grass should be
open for the skinny post which will see
Baker here take advantage of so that guy
wants to commit as this outside threat
will say screw spin into the flat we
need to protect the quarterback and give
some time to step on throw so some
people there's room for debate of what
coverage this is I'm thinking this is
more of a true quarters look saying that
this is the best they're playing more of
that that robber coverage like to call
where this safety is the extra fitter
into the box with this overhang playing
outside leverage so with this safety on
the backside hanging on that hash and
not spinning to know the field coverage
I'm thinking of this from a scouting
report and looking at what they're doing
schematically is more of a true quarters
look maybe not not necessarily the palms
variation that we were looking at but
still a good quarters or a good trap
trap beater
if this corner was the post number two
now they're just putting this overhang
as more of an outside leverage player
trying to funnel him into the safety so
just different some different
modifications and different variations
you can do but still a good look at a
quarters and trap beat
so we inside release we get this good
inside release he's trying to attack the
leverage and grab the inside hand so I
can see this guy already before even
makes his break he's starting to want to
rob and cut this crosser coming across I
want a lot of boot stuff they'll bring
this guy on a come back into the flat
but not a lot of people will do a whole
lot or they don't teach and put an
emphasis on this backside guy being a
true person in the rap progression our
head coaching our offensive coordinator
talks all the time about there's no just
go go after yourself routes pretty much
like where you're not in the progression
so we need to know as receivers at all
times that we are an option within the
route concept and we are available to be
thrown to so it's important for us to
keep this post skinny we try to climb
over the top of the safety he wants to
dive down onto this first post and now
our quarterback needs to reset his feet
his foot in the ground and be able to
swing this thing down the field
obviously some quarterbacks
might not be able to make a 50-yard
throw at the high school level so you
might want to make some modifications
there obviously maybe do some different
things to fit your guys not saying this
is exactly what you have to do but if
you do have a quarterback who can put
the ball for 250 yards downfield not
saying has to be prettier they have to
be able for the ball 70 or 80 no need to
be Pat mahomes or anything out there but
I think having understanding what your
guys have and if you do have a guy
that's more of that dual threat you
running some RPO so if you're on some
quick game stuff I'm not really looking
the stretch that field vertically don't
do this yeah but if you do have the
personnel and a guy that might have the
potential to play at the Division three
Division two FCS level that can sling
the ball a little bit this is something
you can put into your boot game to
attack some quarters coverage stuff that
is all I got okay perfect perfect I'm
ready to go
let's go season can't come soon enough
so thanks
no that's great so that's uh let me just
adjust this yes you guys aren't zoomed
in on my mug no it's great so that's the
basics and fundamentals of palms
coverage to re trap whatever you may
call it if you have any questions please
feel free to reach out to me coach Swain
and we're gonna get to next is the
podcast we Steve I Boston earlier we
usually do at the very beginning we're
doing at the very end now talk about the
podcast what we got going on beyond the
helmet well we knew that swings is on
fire before we started this in this poms
breakdown just reaffirmed everything I
thought that it meant when swings was on
fire that being said so this week we
released Grail and Arnold one of the
Grail and Arnold one of the things that
took out of that conversation which is
so prevalent with what we just did now
is he talking about how coach rule and
coach snow his defensive coordinator at
Baylor what they did to lay the
foundation to take a team that went from
1 in 11 to be on the verge of going 10
enou and have an 11-1 season in two
years you know but by year three they're
you know literally ranked number seven
in the country and he talked about how
coach know the defensive coordinator
taught them defense by teaching the
defensive players but the office was
trying to do literally what we just did
here is what Coach snow and coach rule
did at Baylor to get the defense right
they didn't know what the office was
trying to do so by laying this
understanding from you know a schematic
level so that a defense understands that
and vice versa right if the often sunder
stands really what the defense is trying
to do that is how you move to playing
chess not checkers on the football field
so I just think that you know with
Grayling's podcast being released this
week in having him talk extensively
about then oh by the way coach rule will
be the head coach of the Carolina
Panthers and oh who's his defensive
coordinator coach snow yeah but we'll
see you know how well that works at the
NFL level but I just thought that that
was really fitting larell murchison
defensive tackle drafted to the
Tennessee Titans in the fifth round that
was out today and next week there's some
big things coming so that the pipeline
is full with some good podcast I'm
really looking forward to it yeah
definitely maybe all right perfect
coach Swingle and Stevie J Ethan hey
last the parting words for we set off
excited to get back to some sense of
normalcy here hopefully soon
I would say with our situation we don't
get to have our guys back for the summer
but I'm looking forward to the potential
of solidifying some dates coming up
hopefully sooner I know Ohio just kind
of made some big announcements as far as
reopening of stuff throughout May so I'm
hopeful that we will have football this
year but obviously everyone stay safe
and yeah be well sure it's at the time
this recording it's May 7th we are three
months away is that crazy I feel like we
just ended the season I'm crazy like I
feel like ever since the convention
it's just flown by above this point so
I'm excited I'm ready to get rolling I'm
ready for the season to be here yeah Val
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