4-2-5 Defense Coverages

Installing your coverages for the 4-2-5 defense is easy. For our coverages we're going to use Cover 3 and Cover 2. When you go to install your defense and make your playcalls you'll need to figure out what your players are best suited to do.

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Cover 3 and Cover 2 coverages are concepts, and you won't run either one 100% of the time. You'll need a man coverage package as well, at the very least.

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The Cover 3 coverage is a natural fit for the 4-2-5 Defense. You really can't run a very good defense without having some Cover 3 mixed in. The Cover 3 gives you 4 players covering the short zones and 3 players covering the deep thirds of the field.

The hardest part of running Cover 3 is when you get 4 wide receivers threatening you to run vertical. Obviously, if all 4 go deep, you'll be outnumbered. You have to teach your players to split 2 receivers in their zone and break on the ball in the air. But again, you won't be running this 100% of the time.

Cover 3 defense is great for stopping the pass, but it also feeds well into your Zone Blitz package you'll be installing later with the 4-2-5 Defense. The 4-2-5 is a great defense to blitz out of, and you don't always want to have to man-blitz. Install the Cover 3 and you can run a 3 under, 3 deep coverage behind your 5 man blitzes.

In Cover 3, the Corners and Free Safety take the 3 deep zones. The Linebackers and the two Overhang safeties will handle the underneath zones.

The deep zones are from sideline to hash, hash to hash, and the opposite hash to sideline. The Corners have the outside deep thirds, while the Free Safety handles the middle of the field.

The Outside Linebackers or Overhang Safeties will take care of the flats, from outside the hashes to the sideline. The middle linebackers handle the hook-curl zones, working from the middle of the field to their hash.

Another great coverage is Cover 2. Press Cover 2 is a difficult technique for corners to learn, and is really suited to teams that have more physical corners, or run a lot of press man coverage.

Cover 3 is so simple though, you should have time to work on Cover 2 (as well as your man coverages). Your corners will need to split their time drilling deep 1/3 coverage and flat coverage out of the press alignment. The Free Safety and Weak Safety (weak side overhang safety) will drop off to cover the deep halves of the field. You now get 5 players underneath and two deep zone players.

Its important not to show this immediately, because the offense will see a void left by the Weak Safety rolling back. But he needs to do it before the snap. Timing will be huge to be really effective with switching up your coverages and keeping them disguised.

Once you've got the 4-2-5 Defense installed, put in the Cover 3 and work man technique. If your guys have got it, move on to install Cover 2. You can really throw off some passing games by switching up your coverages and keeping the offense on its toes.

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