Since we’ve established the fronts with the 3-5-3 Defense and included one or two good stunts as well, I want to talk a little bit on the coverage in this defense. Because of the nature of the 3-man front, and the ability to bring anyone from anywhere, the coverage zones in the 3-5-3 have a slight different from the traditional Cover 3 pass defense.The main difference is that there are 8 players who, in a base defensive call, would drop into coverage. Now you may not use this very much, but you probably will want to at some point – so the players better know how it works. And honestly, its a lot easier to start off teaching Base 3-5-3, Cover 3, than almost anything else (even Man Coverage, in my opinion). Once the players understand the 5 underneath cover zones in the Cover 3 deep, 5 under, they just need to learn a simple little rule and we can run a 3 deep, 4 under or even the Fire Zone concept with 3 deep and 3 underneath coverage players.
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