Cover 5

COVER 5 ZONE IS A GOOD PASS COVERAGE DEFENSE AND ALSO A GOOD CALL AGAINST A TEAM EXPECTED TO RUN WIDE AGAINST THE DEFENSE. BY MOVING THE WLB'ER OUT INTO THE FLAT, WE BASICALLY ARE IN A DOUBLE SS SITUATION WITH A THREE DEEP ZONE BEHIND THEM.

THE SS AND WLB'ER ARE IN POSITION TO TAKE AWAY THE SHORT SEAM PASS ROUTE AND ALSO ABLE TO SUPPORT QUICKLY FOR CONTAIN SHOULD THEIR BASIC KEYS INDICATE A WIDE RUN TO THEIR SIDE IS COMING.

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This is a great all around defense both against the run and the pass. I for the life of me why more coaches do not run a defense like this. One of the things that I have seen more of these days against the pass happy folks is a loss of contain or hard force to keep the outside run contained. This defense would take care of that.

All gaps are covered, there are people responsible to contain the run on both sides of the formation, and there are three deep defenders. All the majro zones have a defender for good all around pass defense.

Coach Lavelle Edwards from BYU told me at a clinic, in fact it was the last clinic of his career, that if you do not want to get beat deep, have a 3 deep secondary.

Of course, when they are in a passing situation, say 3rd and 12, we would call a passing defense like Nickel or 5 under man. And if we expect them to be running, we would be in more of a run defense like 4-3, cover 2.