About this episode

Chad Broadrick discusses his approach to Cover 7 defense and strategies for effectively double teaming key offensive players.

Most coaches treat quarters as a set of rules that react to what the offense does after the snap. Chad Broadrick treats it as a way to decide, before the ball is ever snapped, which two players he is going to take away. In this episode, the Head Football Coach and Athletic Director at Centennial High School in Tennessee walks through his Cover 7 film and the single question that drives every call in it: how do we double the two guys we are worried about on Friday night? Everything else is built backward from that answer. Broadrick lays out the four buckets he lives in out of Cover 7, which are cones, brackets, triangle concepts, and box concepts, and shows how each one is really just a different tool for getting a double team on the right player. The star and the money carry outside leverage, the safety plays the aggressor on any in-breaking route, and the Mac takes the back. From there it becomes a language: ink and orc to set the corners’ press, Seahawk to wall and midpoint a vertical, Connie to keep from getting picked on the rail route, stump and smash rules to the field, cut and buster to trips. For coaches who want a cleaner way to organize their quarters answers instead of…

People in this episode

Hosts: Kyle Bradburn, Matt Dixon

Guest: Chad Broadrick

Topics covered

• Cover 7
• football coaching
• defensive strategies
• double teams
• quarterback pressure

Keywords

• Cover 7
• defensive coverage
• football strategy
• double team
• coaching techniques

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Centennial High School

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