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    Reading defense

    2 wr or less most likely run: 4-3 or 3-4,


    3 wr: Nickel
    4wr: dime
    D line adjustment: left stick
    Lb adjustment: right stick
    Secondary adjuatment: triangle
    Contain button: R1 twice
    Pass committing or run committing: r1 button
    Cover 2
    Pre-Snap Read - 2 High Safeties with corners in the flats (close to line of scrimmage)
    Play development Read - Safeties back upend toward the sideline, corners kinda sit
    Routes - Posts in between the two deep blues, smash concept (usually a corner and a hitch),
    will let you pick if you throw to corner or hitch depending on how CB plays, outside release fade
    routes plus a good ball lead to outside
    Cover 3
    Pre-snap read - one high safety, corners playing a bit off
    Play development read - corners bail and a safety (if there’s two high) will come down and play
    closer to the flats (usually) there’s a ton of different variations so just look for a safety rolling
    over to the deep middle
    Routes - slants open up a bit late, drags, HB flats, and I’ve seen a lot of people run streaks with
    a TE to beat it.
    Intermediate coverage principle - cover 3 match This one will take away the purple zones and
    have what’s called a match zone. A match zone is pretty much a zone that turns into man on
    man once someone enters that zone, attempts to stop corner routes and seam routes.
    Ways to beat match- I can’t think of any route that just smashes that coverage but a good
    receiver and a good corner route will still somehow beat it sometimes. Just take your drags and
    slants here.
    Cover 4
    Pre-snap read - corners deep, two high safeties
    Play development read - corners bail straight back, safeties bail
    Routes - drags, drags, drags and more drags, slants, curls, hitches, flats, outs, anything short
    really. I’ve seen people throw a deep post over the top, but you need a lot of time for that to
    develop.
    Intermediate coverage principle- Cover 4 palms Same as cover 3 match see above
    Other tips: don’t rely on pre snap reads too often and make a blind read, the people I usually
    play do a good job of masking their coverage via man aligning or by running sky coverages
    (meaning two safeties line up high and one rolls down). Focus more on watching the corners
    and safeties first few steps.
    Don’t make blind reads, just because you see one side play what looks like cover 3, doesn’t
    mean the other side is. The opponent could’ve made adjustments or ran a combo coverage
    (cover 6, cover 9, cover 4 palms, etc).
    Go to practice mode and select random (insert coverage) from concepts for defense COU on
    All-pro, to get a feel of play-dev reads.
    And lastly, have fun! Good luck and feel free to post comments on things I missed or got wrong,
    we all make mistakes
    Cover 0/1 or cover 2 man- essentially the same thing. Cover 0 is usually man to man with
    everyone else rushing, so this works with man blitzes too
    Pre-snap read - almost everyone is lined up face to face with your receiver, they don’t have to
    be pressed, but if there’s a guy standing in parallel with your receiver, it might be man
    Play development read - they follow your guys
    Routes - slants burn the with fast guys, double moves (post-corner), In routes, any breaking
    route with fast receivers (any route where someone doesn’t run straight up is called a breaking
    route), any double move route, WHEEL ROUTES FROM LINE OF SCRIMMAGE
    ***what is a double move route? Any route where a receiver fakes one route and does another.
    Some examples include: Post-Corner (fakes a post route then runs a corner route), sluggo
    (fakes a slant the runs a go route), Wheel route (fakes flat runs go route), and others where the
    play art looks funky

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