Bunch Defense - Pentagon - Also, Sort and Steal Coverage. The whys.

Time Stamps Below.

My earlier video about a month ago went into playing SORT vs the Bunch. To into that check, theoretically, you could call cover 2 zone or cover 9. I use cover 9. But in both instances, you have to user the middle player and match the final number 3 from the bunch.

This video gets into Cover 9 against bunch and how it plays a 5 over 3 concept . . . hence pentagon. But I wanted to get into STEAL coverage to showcase how we can utilize a different alignment when playing these backside steal type coverages and even when we are playing Sort.

Reason why I play cover 9 as opposed to cover 2 when I'm going to sort the bunch, is because I can jump between playing Sort/Pentagon depending on game situation while on the field, and of course while in Sort, we keep a true 3 over 2 numerical advantage on the backside. Same thing havens in cover 2 if you sort the bunch, but I like the matching principles on the backside in cover 9 which allows us to do cool things with the safety and corner.

0:00 - 5:40 = Quick Review of how box plays the bunch. Drawing up stuff to attack it.
5:41 - 8:30 = Bingo. Cluster. Madden issues. Quick review of the Bunch defense pallete.
8:31 - 14:30 = Creating Coverages to SOLVE PROBLEMS. STEAL coverage to deal with Air Raid. Using the theory of this will translate into Pentagon and Sort for this video. The Bubble. 3 over 2 and 4 over 3 . . . . Stealing backside concept. Deception.
14:31 - 20:00 = Taking it a step further. Building a defensive concept that solves MULTIPLE PROBLEMS. Alignment changes things. Blending.
20:01 - 23:00 = Pentagon and Sort.
23:01 - 26:20 = In game examples of Pentagon and Sort. 1st Play.
26:21 - 29:16 = In game examples of Pentagon and Sort. 2nd Play. Different things you can do on backside in Sort. Weaknesses of c1, traffic321 . . . etc.
29:17 - 31:47 = In game examples of Pentagon and Sort. 3rd Play. Finally getting into Pentagon. But using the same idea from STEAL coverage against AIR RAID.
31:48 - 35:00 = In game examples of Pentagon and Sort. 4th Play. Pentagon.
35:01 - 36:17 = In game examples of Pentagon and Sort. 5th Play. Sort Check. Double x.
36:18 - 38:10 = In game examples of Pentagon and Sort. 6th and 7th Play. Pentagon.
38:18 - 38:42 = Outro.