Landmarks: The Foundation of Zone Coverage
by Mark Miller
Zone coverage contains one simple fact that is often over looked.
You are defending zones of the field. As such, you must have a
base knowledge about the depth and width of what you are defending.
I call this the geometry of football.
A football field has specific landmarks. The playing surface is 53 & 1/3
yards wide and 100 yards long with two scoring areas, the end zones, at ei