 What's up y'all is Debbie and I'm back with a video that I've been thinking about doing for a long time It's really a passion of mine, and that's helping y'all become better defensive players I see a lot of tips on YouTube that are just garbage send five people get one free 30% of the time or send six get one free against five wide and to me personally that stuff That's not gonna help you become a better defensive player You know just cuz you have a blitz that might work from time to time or you know They don't block anybody somebody will come free all the way around the edge That's not gonna get you better what's going to get you better is understanding how to play defense Understanding what the offensive player wants to do and trying your best to take that away What I'm gonna do in this series is break down what I think defensively against every formation and every game situation Help y'all get a better mind of what makes me an effective defensive player I've always been a decent defensive player and I've never really relied on a blitz that was unblockable or unslideable Or it can't ID the mic. I've never relied on anything like that I've always used you know my smarts and anticipation and you know reaction to become you know a great defensive player So what I'm gonna do in this is go ahead and break down What you need to be looking for verse every formation and the first one Go ahead and start with is split close split close has been good and mad and it's been a real basic offense For a couple years now you'll see anybody try to run it You know from the bazooka Joes of the world to even the elite players will mix it into their scheme Because it is effective. It is compressed and it does have a good run package So I mean it's an offense that a lot of people use and obviously when people come out of the huddle in the split close Defensively you see here. I'm just any play I'm not gonna necessarily show y'all a play or show y'all, you know do this through this exactly will lock up everything But what I want to show you guys is what exactly I want to do and what the offense player wants to do So when I see split close if someone comes out in this say, it's the first play of the game All the time when someone runs split close what they want to do is hit this post route to X That's what they want to do They want to hit X on a post route for a big play X has always been the player you have to watch You know that obviously there's flat routes to both sides There's a corner route there could be a little short drag routes and routes But X is the person that's gonna one get 10 plus yards or to make a touchdown out of nowhere If you don't pay attention to X and you have to think as often as a player He wants to do that. He wants a big play It takes an elite elite elite man player to be satisfied getting three or four, you know five yards of play Most kids that pick up man, they want the touchdown They want to hit the two routes that are 10 yards plus as a defensive player I've always had a rule do not give up a 10-yard play anything under 10 yards You can live with because one it's not gonna kill you to you can hit them fumble three They can door in completion. They could back up, you know, they could have a negative play But if you allow your opponent to get 10 plus yards, that's not good And it's gonna make their life real easy and they can score in five six plays and not necessarily give you an opportunity From fumble a sack a fluky black shed a fluky tip pick and that's what you want as defender The more you make someone work the more likely you are to make mistakes and by giving up the big plays You will not make them work. So essentially that's what I do. So we'll see I'm in just a cover three right here So ideally what I want to do is take away X. That's what I want to do If I come out of the huddle, I want to take away X I can move my safety down here to try to take away the post and help out I Can always do something like this cross man X over there But more often than not if I'm in a cover three or a cover two I'm going to tend to lurk From the middle you're gonna have one guy coming over here short most people slant They'll do a little slant over the middle and I'll probably lurk, you know from B to X That's ideally what I want to do I want to stop this X route and obviously I want to stop the corner out I rarely ever on this right side against split close rarely ever go Just hard flat if I put a hard flat on the right It's normally accompanied with a curl flat or something to stop the corner out Because other than the deep post with the other play that's gonna hurt you in this main play Which is had back wheel is the deep corner out So ideally you want to make sure you account for a post either with your user moving the safety down or manning up the post And also account for the corner out You know with a cloud flat or a purple zone or something like that A lot of people do like to go to short running back route if they start killing you with that I'll man him up or something like that. So that's the main play you have to worry about in split close Obviously, there's other plays I'm on with it. We'll take a look at a couple other plays that people like to run in In split close, so we'll go home run covered to this time Obviously half back will is probably the main play that you know most regular players are gonna run But this is the other one it was good last year and once again, it's good this year and that's that's PA slot It's good because it attacks both flats You have it out most people will streak X like this once again X is always a guy's home get a big play But when they run slide what they're looking for is the a post route once again a post route over the middle of the field Because that if you look at this play art like this a Is the only route on the field that's once again is one get you over 10 yards and giving up 10 yards plays are not What we want to do so between these two plays you got to worry about if they run the PA slide You got to worry about a so once again, we can go ahead and bring these safeties down a little bit to try to stop the post Or you can man up a but most of the time with this I'll go ahead and just lurk the a route if I see PA slide So between half back will post and the PA slide post Those are the two plays that are gonna kill you in this formation if you can limit those plays Limit those two big play opportunities You're gonna make your opponent check down a lot throw to the running backs And that's gonna give you an opportunity to get a turnover or most of the time they're gonna make a mistake They're gonna force these big plays because that's what they want to do You know by taking away the big play You're gonna make most these kids make mistakes because they're not used to consistently hitting drags hitting flats and Taking what the defense gives them, you know You have to make your opponent make a mistake and that's the best way to do it This is how most of time what I think about when I defense split close Tell me what you guys think if this is a series y'all want me to continue on different formations and You know what I do defensively to slow them down I'm never been a person has been you know, you're never getting a first down on me But my goal is to slow people down essentially been but don't break, you know And by taking away the big plays you will not break So I'm gonna show you, you know multiple formations that people use a lot early man 18 Like once tight end any type of trips tight end with three wide receivers to the left ace twins doose close Whatever you guys are having trouble defending I'll give you an idea what I do defensively against them and what my main goal is Against these formations. So hit the like button. Please if I get a hundred likes I'll go ahead and do another formation what I do defensively versus and Hit the sub make sure I'm almost over 2,000 subs and mean the world to me to get over that I appreciate it y'all go ahead. Let me know what formations y'all want help defending and I'll tell you what goes through my mind All right y'all need