Various Methods to Shutting Down the Receiver
I am one of those who believe in the Shutdown Corner. I am one who believes in the cover corner. If those corners are created in the right manner, you definitely would not have a grab session but instead a chuck at the line, release, turn and run with the receiver. The problem is when others copied it, they did not bring the player to the right spot on the base or did not give the hand spacing the right width. Thus, you found yourself with clutching, grabbing, and going around in circles.
However, that does not bother me. In the NFL, NCAA, and any level of football, I see players with their hands out all the time like they are going to hug them. It's unlikely with cover corners but LBs and DLs and OLs have their hands out.
The cover corner and shutdown corners are just players that can be put on an island and they will handle their business. Sometimes they will get beat and other times, they will beat the receiver.
But for me, I can not consistently stop the boat base receiver as I can not stop the leaping receiver as I can not consistently stop the rookie base receiver. The boat base receiver is dependent on the figure used as well. I believe that an athlete=base+player.
It just all depends on the type of coverages you feel comfortable with. For me, when I play an attacking defense, that is when my team is at its best. The covers, defensive tackles, outside linebackers and safeties work hand-in-hand. We play cover 2 defense sometimes. We can disguise the MLB to drop back into coverage because we utilize Munro dials on them and our safeties play zone with certain pre-read schemes. Not many in the league run this scheme, maybe just Michael Robertson and myself. For us, it has been successful.
Andre, you can further stop the boat base by putting maximum pressure on the QB at certain stress points in his scheme. One stress point is to stunt between the guard and center. Run a defensive scheme where you stack 3-4 in a row! That will take the other team out of his comfort zone.
Yeah, zones are great but you've seen some of the passers in the DFW. They are no joke when it comes to accuracy! If you sit back in the zones, they will pick you apart! They will nickel and dime you down the field and all you can hope is that they throw into coverage.
When you come back here to Texas, you will have to sit with Michael and I and we will show you the techniques of our defensive schemes. These are schemes tried and true. You can't stop everything but having the right type of personnel will make life so much easier on you.
Reginald
|