How to Steal interceptions in Cover 4 | How to play defensive back 

Thank uuu we did quarters today at practice

Corner eyes should be peeking cross field. It's tough tho as in college you can slow this route with collisions but in the NFL you have to play softer. Miami take advantage of this with outside breaking routes and with two WRs that can get behind your coverage makes it nearly coverable

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Good Video. To me its just just like cover 2 zone it all depends on your pass-rush able to get pressure in 2-4 seconds with a 4 line rush or everything starts to fall apart. Even more important your Nickelback/corner safety or weak side Middle linebacker not getting to much focus on the backfield or the first route that starts to pull him short/under Its vital until the Qb turns his hips and stops his initial drop(very important) and getting the proper drop depth off that drop read. We had a call on our defense called 4 seam wide = each outside corners would be right between at snap the x and z reciever and whatever slot or y (tight-end) he would start 5-7 yards off unless we were in cover 4 disguise press and chase technique. At the snap the corners would drop straight back in a slow zig zag back pedal between his 2 recievers to his side equally watching them with 10% side angle focus on the QB. Now whichever reciever to his side continues vertical he takes and it becomes his man meanwhile the safety or robber nickel immediately once the routes to start break from not a 4 vertical threat route concept jump into the inside these safeties or nickel are about 3-4 yards pre snap just reading in a slow back pedal until they feel the corner starting to get within 1-2 yards of the (break and fly space) behind the corners this is where the Interceptions from our defense came usually not the corner but the safety who jumps the inside route which is now breaking off of vertical usually a post or double type move by this time the Qb has either committed to a read or the pass rush has flushed or got to the Qb. The problem is always the talent of that under defender if he let's his guy get away from his zone and not chase with a strafe type 1 yard over his assignment to the boundary that's when the corner and safety to that side can get caught looking at the trap and try to start moving in that direction if the Qb has time can pump fake or come off that reciever and like you said its that backside reciever who usually is now wide open or with a safety or corner trying to recover. We only ran this defense when we had the lead by 10 points or it was 3rd and 20 yards so that everyone under knew we don't care about any 5 to 10 yard junk routes doing a curl or check down we are focused only on pass and deep intermediate to deep route concepts. When the score is tied or your losing that's when players try to do too much in this defense and the big play happens out of urgency.

Crazy thing is that Marshon Lattimore got a pick off of this concept a couple of years ago cs the packers doing the same exact thing you’re talking about. Only difference is that they were playing cover 3

It seems like common sense