What is Liz and rip in football?

Rip/Liz is the Saban jargon for a pattern-matching, single high safety coverage employed heavily by Alabama in base downs. We will be breaking down this coverage, discussing its purpose, its execution and how Florida State may employ this under new defensive coordinator Adam Fuller.

What does rip mean football?

The dip and rip technique in football is a movement used by linebackers to escape blocking from the offensive line, that way getting into a gap. By doing so, linebackers can break the protection on the ball carrier and either sack the quarterback, or stop a run.

What does RIP Liz mean?

Rip/Liz is a Cover 3 match concept when defending offenses 2x2 formations (11 or 10 Personnel) Divider: Before we start, Players must understand what the Divider is, and how they relate to it and its rules. What is the divider? Cogan described it as an invisible line that goes all the way down the field.

What is cover3 match?

Cover 3 match is a pattern-matching coverage check that defenses can call to slow down a vertical passing attack. The concept is pretty simple and has 3 basic rules: The cornerback who is responsible for the outside third of the field will convert to man coverage if the outside receiver runs a vertical route.

What is the apex defender in football?

The Apex defender is the first underneath defender inside of the cornerback. In a two-safety look, that means that there is one apex defender split out to the called strength (usually the passing strength) and one apex defender in the box.

What is a cover 7 defense?

Some teams play a variant of the Cover 1 called Cover 7. In Cover 7, the free safety still plays deep, but the underneath coverage is much more flexible and the defenders switch assignments as the play develops in an attempt to improve defensive positions to make a play on the ball.

What is a cover 6 defense?

Cover 6 is a blend of two separate coverages: Cover 4 and Cover 2. As a result, it looks very similar to Cover 3 with three deep defenders and four underneath. It offers the ability to disguise, protect against the passing strength, and has safeties that are active in the run game.

What is a Cover 3 Defence?

Cover 3 is a zone defense with corners and safeties protecting the deep thirds of the field. Each sideline is covered by the corners and the middle of the field by the safety. That leaves four defenders to cover the underneath zones.

What does Mable mean in football?

Mable means man coverage to the single receiver side and cover 3 to the three-receiver side. As you can see, the weak side linebacker and cornerback take the single receiver and running back man to man, while the rest of the defenders play zone.

What is a Cover 2 defense?

What is Cover 2? The base Cover 2 is a zone defense where every defender is responsible for an area of the field and not a specific man. The field is divided into five underneath zones and two deep zones. The two corners and three linebackers play the underneath fifths, and the two safeties play the deep halves.

What is an overhang defender?

An “overhang” defender is one that aligns outside the formation, typically coming close to splitting the difference between the offensive EMOL and the closest receiver (known as an "Apex" technique). They typically align 4-5 yards off the LOS. In this way they serve several purposes.

What is a rip move?

A rip move in football is a pass-rushing technique that is used to get past the offensive lineman protecting the quarterback. The rip move relies on defensive players targeting one arm of the defender by swinging their arm up underneath it.

How do you stop a swim move?

Blocking the Swim Move

1. Not give him the shoulder, by leading with your inside hand.
2. Time a punch when he exposes the arm up and over.
3. Not allow him to close the distance between the two of you.

What is Pattern Match defense?

Pattern Matching is, at its core, a set of rules for defenders to follow in coverage based on how the offense's eligible receivers distribute. This differs from traditional zone coverage, which is based on defending zones, and from man coverage in which defenders are assigned an eligible receiver to cover.

What is cover3 buzz?

Cover 3 "Buzz" allows the defense to disguise their three-deep zone by dropping the strong safety down inside of the numbers as a middle-hook defender.

What is a 7 route?

Corner (7): The corner route (or old school “flag route”) is a deep, outside breaking cut run up the field at a 45-degree angle toward the sideline. Receivers aligned outside of the numbers will have to take a hard, inside release to run the 7 (create room), and we often see it out of a slot alignment.

What is a cover 5 defense?

Sometimes called “2-Man” or “Cover 5,” this is a defense where the two safeties split the deep part of the field (as in Cover 2), but the linebackers and corners all match up in man coverage.

What is the weakness in Cover 4?

What is the Weakness of Cover 4? The primary weakness of Cover 4 is the underneath zones. Cover 3 puts 4 defenders underneath and Cover 2 puts 5 defenders underneath while Cover 4 only leaves 3 players to cover the short to intermediate portions of the field.

What is a dime linebacker?

What is the dime package? The dime package refers to six defensive backs on the field at the same time. The defense now employs four down linemen, one linebacker and six defensive backs. It is a lot like the nickel package. The only difference is a sixth defensive back for the Sam linebacker.

What is a 50 defense?

One way to tell if a defensive might be an Under front, is that it will look like a 50 (five man) defensive line because the Sam linebacker is up on the line of scrimmage. However, the real for sure way to tell if it's an Under front, is that the 1 technique defensive tackle is to the strong side.

What is a cover 9?

Cover 9 is just the invert of cover 6, basically just flipping which side plays 4 and which side plays 2. It comes from 6 flipped upside down is 9.

What does Meg mean in football?

A nutmeg (or tunnel, nut, megs, megnuts, panna, brooksy, codling) is a skill used mainly in association football, but also in field hockey, ice hockey, and basketball. The aim is to kick, roll, dribble, throw, or push the ball (or puck) between an opponent's legs (feet).

What is a cover 8?

Cover 8 is defined as an eight-man front with a 7, 3, 1 and 5 technique backed by four linebackers, two corners and a safety. The beauty of the Cover 8 is you have eight to nine men in the box, which covers all situations that may be presented.