 What's up guys? This is the befriending the bot. This is episode four. Thanks for all the feedback man It's really popping right now And I hope I'll give me getting all you guys better and mad and one thing about man 20 That's so tough is that the run game is strong It is strong and and I won't be the first one to tell you I had the best run defense because I feel like as soon as I feel like I have the best run defense They they kill me the next game I give up 200 yards rushing whether it's Eric Dickerson Chris Johnson that guy Bo Jackson I know there's a new Barry Sanders coming out soon That's probably gonna be the first running back with human joystick So for me having good run defense is Important if you're gonna win games man because there's nothing easier than running the ball So if you allow your opponent to run the ball, you're gonna be in trouble Like I said man get this video to 500 likes and we will drop the new video a set But this is just run defense and these are the super basics of run defense Anything else you want more elaborate things what plays to run what? What person of blitz what gaps to hit and then different things against different defenses man man turf calm that link is below But this is just the basics man It just just pretty much stopping to run one-on-one. It doesn't really matter what player against what offense you're playing against. This is just Simple things that maybe you guys aren't doing maybe you guys don't understand and we're gonna go to practice mode We have the Giants against the Eagles man. This is our matchup right here We're gonna have we're gonna have stretch stretches pretty much the biggest run run play and this is out of eye tight eye tight Is pretty much goal line both with one wide receiver It's been the most popular defense or offense and it's one I want to say it's one every single man tournament this year, you know now Honestly for me, I don't know which defense. I love the most against it Whether it's man coverage cover three cover four cover two right here. I'm just gonna show you guys the cover two Now there's a couple secrets we can do that. I like against the run on one back to shading I love shading underneath so hard flats. I feel like when you shade underneath their first step is to the line Playing aggressive so they'll play to run a little bit better to when I run cover two see gentlemen Mills on this guy right here He's manned up right or he's over top of him if I leave him over top of him He's gonna get blocked But if I sneak him in here like that Maybe he's gonna take that first step and he's gonna be in the backfield Rather than getting blocked So when I run cover two and most of you guys know most of these bums that run the ball They're not gonna have Randy Moss out here They're gonna have you know, Munoz or Lane Johnson or Kittle or just somebody that's not really gonna burn you So it's okay if you put this guy here Because if they want to snap and run a streak out of eye tight then God bless them What we want to do is stop the run now. I'm not telling you to put him all the way over here I'm just talking maybe one or two steps inside the receiver and that's on both sides, you know, and uh The number one rule for stopping to run or having good run defenses, it's numbers It's simply a numbers game this year There's more blockers than there are defenders your people will get blocked in the running back We'll have yards to run and that's pretty much the entire game this year because you guys know I mean once you're blocked in this game, you're pretty much blocked You're pretty much out of the play the sheds are not crazy against the run linebackers DB's they don't shed they get blocked Unless you have some run-stopping abilities, but it's tough to have those on every planet D-line. So For me, it's about numbers now what you have to identify When you're playing a running formation is which side is the short side? Which side is the why so which side is the strong side of the formation when I say strong side It means what side has more blockers now eye tight looks pretty symmetrical It's got two tight ends got two running backs But the strong side is the side with the Y receiver because essentially that's another blocker So that's up as a blocker. He's going to take out a defensive player Every blocker takes out a defensive player and it's your job as a defensive player to add a person to the box add a person to the numbers game because Obviously there's why receiver over here. So you're losing that battle. So I always always always try to use Or somebody on the weak side Whether it's so against this if I was in this 4-3 defense It would either be this linebacker, but more than likely I'd be on Rodney McLeod Because you have such a numbers this is not not a huge numbers disadvantage But one number is all that matters in this game of man 20 So this wide receiver over here is going to hurt hurts you your defense so much stop in the run That you have to add this guy Rodney McLeod to the run defense over here Now you got to let these guys do their thing and we'll see if we can stop this run out of here out of cover two out of 4-3 And we did not do the best job But I will tell you what do we get you got four or five yards Let's take a look at the replay here boys Brandon Graham got asked absolutely moved on the double team there. I Did put the corner to the inside but the corner still got blocked by that wide receiver Full back is out there as you see Malcolm Jenkins out there floating in his deep half Linebacker kind of got caught in the mix Middle linebacker got blocked and I actually made the play With my safe my with that that weak side safety came over made the tackle. So essentially he got what? four yards here That's what I mean about That having that short side safety being the one to make the play because your number advantage is bad over here And without that guy being there if you were on a linebacker and got blocked He's say Juan Barclays one-on-one with Malcolm Jenkins if he misses that tackle is prior to the end zone But let me show you one more thing that people do a lot against the run same thing We can even maybe move this guy in a little bit more What people do and it's and we used to be able to do this man up to safety's but they made that they made For some reason that doesn't work as well anymore people put the safety's in a in a spy But this is like a last Resort because I really never liked doing that But against I tight it can work because I can cover if it is a pass I can actually cover that wide receiver But I'll show you the difference between the deep blue when he's in a spy and when he's in a safety Up there we go my corner made to play that time That's what I mean about I don't know if Jalen Mills just shed him That's why I do like cover two against to run the corners and Jalen Mills just absolutely blurred the wide receiver Jalen Mills Actually, that's why I like cover two your corners are almost blitzers and that's why I like shading down They play the run really aggressive and cover two and when you have your corner setting the edge It makes the job easier for all the linebackers You know and at the end of the day if Because I put Malcolm Jenkins in that spy at the end of the day if the wire receiver see out of wire receiver If the wire receiver got blocked right and say say that's Kittle or Lane Johnson The wire receiver gets or the corner gets blocked and he's held up right there We have Malcolm Jenkins right there to come down and it and if that 74 blocks Malcolm Jenkins Look where my user defender is right there boom So it's all about numbers getting your numbers down there. We'll do the same thing. We'll press Press shade. Let's move this guy in a little bit We're gonna spy Malcolm Jenkins. We're gonna go ahead and we're gonna take the weak side. There's short side safety boom Just different things man and it act cuz essentially when I tell you that this deep blue this cover to the blue He's really not part of the numbers that makes sense, but when I put him in a spy Look how he plays Absolute maniac, but once again Jalen Mills is just this is what he does in real life Jalen Mills is shedding him and there there's Malcolm Jenkins It actually gets blocked by the wire receiver But let's do this because I feel like Jalen Mills is killing this guy so bad. I gotta get a different look out here But that's essentially why I like cover two. We'll keep Jalen Mills there But over here we're gonna put we gotta put somebody out here. You know these Do you know these muck guys are not out here with? They're out here with we'll give me a tight end Kevin Smith. They're out here with this guy Stretch again Same thing got a tight end out there Malcolm Jenkins put him in a spy. Boom. Now, obviously I'm tilting the defense hard to the right because that's the strong side He has an extra blocker there You know Boom Rodney McLeod's right there now all the blockers got taken up right there because Jalen Mills did not shed Jalen Mills did not shed right there He got blocked by that by that kiddo or whatever they'll have out there get blocked But you see how Malcolm Jenkins scrapes in that spy he really takes over and takes out the Or takes the running back or takes the full back and really goes right after the running back And at the end of the day, there's Nigel Bradham as well if I don't clean it up But that's it essentially this video is telling you the importance of being on the back side safety Uh the weak side safety now Obviously, I don't know if I can flip this run without another controller But the whole point of this is you know, just making sure you're on this guy Because if you're say even if I put say I put McLeod in a spy and I use her this side with Jenkins Right, let's see the difference Boom I got blocked Just not not there Rodney McLeod the middle linebacker was there though I like I kind of like how the middle linebacker is playing in the mid read But just a little bit different, you know I don't want to be the first guy and I kind of want to be the cleanup guy I'm liking this mid read, you know, I'm liking how he plays how he scrapes Um, but like I said if if you don't want to be blocked That's the key and because you're on because if you're on a strong side You're definitely going to get blocked You're one of the people that the offense is accounted for but if you're out there on the weak side You will be the free runner And able to go ahead and tackle the running back. So just the basic The first basic principle of stopping the run is being on a weak side player that that's like The biggest thing I can tell you guys uh to help you guys stop the run man If you're not on a weak side person, that's the first adjustment I would make Now if you're still struggling man There's a bunch of other things you can do and the I as far as I'm concerned The befriending the box series is going to have about four or five or six or seven different run defensive Parts because there's so many different things you can do different things You can do out of cover four cover three and man defense I mean ultimately I feel like man plays the best run defense better than zone But it's so many things that people are doing to confuse the man coverage and runs That it's tough to stay in man coverage against the run But being able to mix it up and play different defenses I've started to realize that uh, there is a little bit of knowledge and skill gap and running the football And being able to throw different looks at your opponent when they're running the ball It's kind of like throwing different coverages at a passer It's hard to realize that but it is and I think The people with the best run defense might have different looks for their opponent, you know And uh, maybe that's something that down the rest of the year I'm going to incorporate into my game not only am I going to run man coverage Or zone coverage or cover four whatever maybe I'm going to mix it up effectively And I think that's going to make me a better run defensive player and it's going to help you guys So that's just an example of using cover two I like to shade down using that spy feature to put your safety and just making play super aggressive And make sure you guys are using a weak side player That's the most important thing when it comes down to stopping the run And uh, like I said get this video 500 likes and we will drop the next episode. I appreciate you guys for all the support