The Last Rep

Offensive schemes are becoming more intricate with every season that passes, so American Football Monthly recently sat down with six of the top defensive back coaches from around the country to get their thoughts on some of the major issues concerning their positions. When facing a balanced offense, what can you do to help give your secondary/team the edge? “You have to be unpredictable with your calls week to week. You have to be able to line up and give them a look and be able to play different coverages and different fronts. For teams that are multiple, you have to at least give two or three different fronts by either movement pre-snap or movement post-snap. Movement pre-snap is our stem package, we’ll stem two different fronts ... movement post-snap, we’ll do that with zone blitz or defensive line movement. Everything is based on our ability to disguise coverages by taxiing