Today on the Coach and Coordinator podcast, host Keith Grabowski is joined by Lexington High School Head Coach, Kyle Cogan. Prior to serving as the HC at Lexington, Cogan was the defensive coordinator. Lexington has been on the forefront of defensive schemes since Cogan took over and he joined today to talk about his 1 High Zone Match Coverage.

Show Notes:

1:51 What problems he was seeing that led him to his current system

4:48 Finding better answers and building on Zone Match

7:23 How Cogan put his own fingerprints on the scheme

9:08 Differences between Zone Match, Spot Drop and Man Match coverage

14:12 Advantages to playing Zone Match vs Man Match

16:06 The “dividers” in his scheme

21:38 Does Coach feel as if the teams in his conference are scheming vs his defense differently

24:16 Rules of the droppers

29:56 Teaching vs 2-back and how that hits together

32:30 How his defense plays vs some more traditional schemes and plays

35:06 What concepts has he seen offensively in 2020 that would cause him to readjust and adjusting to his new personnel

38:03 Concerns vs shallow screens like mesh

39:58 Wha he has found he needs to improve going forward

43:00 Drill ideas

44:06 Coach’s courses on Coach Tube

Coach Tube Courses:

https://coachtube.com/course/football/foundations-of-zone-match-1-high-coverage/13058034?ambassador=325306f59bb543b6883ff4baa

https://coachtube.com/course/football/3-4-down-even-space-zone-1-high-run-fits/11312303?ambassador=325306f59bb543b6883ff4baa

https://coachtube.com/course/football/zone-match-1-high-vs-spread/11821474?ambassador=325306f59bb543b6883ff4baa

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