For the love of God, help me---Screens

[RogueHominid]

Quote: Originally Posted by teambayern

great tips! How do I make sure he is in "even position"?

The guy assigned to man up on the HB can't be lined up across the formation. For example, if the opposition comes out in a single back twin TE formation to the right and you're in man with a Cover 2 shell, your weakside backer will be the guy assigned to the HB. The problem is that he's on the wrong side of the formation, and even if you shift over he'll still be too far away to get there in time.

So you have to manually line the guy up, or switch assignments so your strongside backer takes the back and one of your other guys or a safety takes the TE.

[CreatineKasey]

Quote: Originally Posted by Trojan Man

The guy assigned to man up on the HB can't be lined up across the formation. For example, if the opposition comes out in a single back twin TE formation to the right and you're in man with a Cover 2 shell, your weakside backer will be the guy assigned to the HB. The problem is that he's on the wrong side of the formation, and even if you shift over he'll still be too far away to get there in time. So you have to manually line the guy up, or switch assignments so your strongside backer takes the back and one of your other guys or a safety takes the TE.

Exactly, give your defender who is manned up on the RB a fighting chance to make a play. If you have a good athlete on defense and can sacrifice the coverage somewhere else, this usually does a pretty nice job. Following up with another manually controlled defender of your own should seal the deal most the time and get a tackle for loss on him. Remember, most kids who force screens all game don't have much past that. Once you lock the repetitive things down, usually people are left treading water and guessing. This is where sacks/INT's come

Basically, in general man coverage plays should do well against screens, zones, especially deep zones, should struggle. blitzes with man coverage might struggle, and zone blitzes should get annihilated by screens (that is actually the strongest counter).

If you can get a good athlete manned up evenly on the RB and get a defender in the flat with him, this play is gone. (If you use Linebacker hot routes, select the Outside Linebacker you want to hot route and flick the R stick down, it will put the linebacker in a flat coverage... that coverage can be nice for passes to the flats ex. screens and quick RB passes.

[butterknife26]

1. 2 hard is OK but sometimes the CB gets blocked by the WR

2. Control the DE on the side you think the screen is going to and just try to knock down the RB in the backfield

3. In Nickel 3-3, hot route the extra LB to the flats on the side you expect the screen is going to.

4. Gold and Silver linebackers are pretty effective, make sure they're on the correct side.

5. Hot route a CB to cover the RB on the side you expect the screen to go to. This work very well. Or you can call a CB blitz and just hot route the blitzing CB to cover the RB ,