No Skill, No Scheme – The Plight of New Era Defenses

Nowadays, scheme is everything. We’re in an information era where playbooks, ideologies, and theories can be spread rather quickly. With this overload of information, it is very easy as coaches to get bogged down in schemes, checks, and the like. However, if we aren&rsqu...

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Pattern Matching 101: How to Simplify Rules for Young DBs

One of the biggest barriers to running match coverage effectively at the high school level is overcomplication. Coaches install pattern match principles that sound good in theory but fall apart on Friday nights because the DBs are swimming in rules, unsure of what to do post-s...

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