Dante Bartee: Split Field Coverage

Coach Dante Bartee explains split field defense from the 4-2-5 foundation.

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This is gonna, here we go through an attack, we're going to go to split field defense now. And we're going to talk about playing man match quarters. This goes by a lot of different names. Some people say this is lock quarters, some people say it's cover seven, there's a lot of different names for it. But we're going to talk about playing man match quarters the principles of man match quarters

okay, it's match which you already know what that means. I'm going to teach you the version of man match quarters I used in high school okay, that I used in high school because I think that is what is probably easiest to run. It's a lot of work

still. If we want to talk about it later, we can talk about the other versions later but we're going to stick to this for now.

Okay. What I did is we played we called it cover six but we play quarter quarter half and it was man match that's all match. So here's how we set it up to the passing strength I was gonna play my cover for cover seven my quarters variations okay, it was flank dependent. This is flank dependent so it split field coverage now my side of the fields running one thing based on the number of receivers the other side of the field is running another thing to this side of the field if we got a twins which is to open we played bracket we played bracket in bracket corner was in mag mag stands for we always played inside on top with our position maintenance. We always played inside on top of our position man and we can talk about other ways to do it but right now we're playing inside on top the strong safety had a man unless rule so he was man unless he's man to man. Unless the back is fast he gets a fast three. If he gets a fast three is gonna push it and take the back to the flat man a man Are we going to stack him Are we going to be in his hip? Because we're playing a man match concept. So unless he went fast, we were playing man to man. The free safety he would align. So and by the way, I'm sorry. He is aligning five yards off. One yard outside the number two, five by one outside the two five by one outside the two. Got a little ahead of myself. Questions so far? We're good. Okay, free safety container second. Free safeties in line 10 by two, inside the number two, he's using a rubber technique, what I call a Robert principle, a Robert principle. Okay? To answer your question, it's the exact same I control. When you play match coverage. I'm seeing three and two. Just like in match. I got to see three in twos I dropped to the scene because if I get faster, I'm gonna flood it. Like he thinks the same thing in his mind. I'm playing outside trail on number two. Unless I get a fast three, then I take the three. That's what he's gonna do. The only difference between that match is that if to go shall I'm gonna run with it. Because I'm man unless that makes sense. So you seen three into his eyes are inside like this. He's getting ready to scoot exactly like match in terms of eye control. And in terms of technique, and in terms of position maintenance. There's carryover like I did it on purpose. It's like wizardry. Robert principle, how do we play the robin principle. We're reading today line two to one. So we're going to read one pass. If it's pass, we're going to snap our eyes to number two. We're going to start to scooch back in the scene using our footwork like we talked about earlier. If to his vertical, I'm going to play inside and on top of him. So some people will shuffle into a Smooth pedal. I like to shuffle into a catch. That's just my preference. We can talk about technique later. But I'm gonna play inside on top of the guy. If twos in or out. I'm going to snap my eyes, snap my hips. Fail. I gotta snap my snap my hips. I'm going to start to build the fence on the number one receiver. What Coach, can you stand up one of you, please, for a second so you can see what it means to build the fence. He's the number one receiver out there. I snapped my snap my hips. He's running vertical, build a fence. I'm going to try to stay about five yards, eight yards of separation and I'm running down the field with him back up, just back up. So we're running down the field together. Does that make sense? They they're we're robbing him. So we're looking at his inside hip. If he breaks in on the dig on the post on the curl break on the curl honeys Hip

Hip it in Pickett. Makes sense. Robert principles. So whenever you hear me say Robert principle, like that's what we're doing. Again, it's like carryover. So like, I can play different types of cover seven and say we're playing Bob principle and a kid knows what he's doing already. I'm reading 221

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