How To Play Cornerback

what's up, y'all.

So today I'm gonna teach you how to play the

corner position in football.

So most of y'all might not know, but cornerback is

a position you playing football.

Um There's many positions that go into playing the sport,

this quarterback that most people know.

Um wide receiver that's with the quarterback does to the

online blocks with QB.

But on the defensive side there's a cornerback.

Cornerback basically guards the wide receivers and make sure they

just, they don't catch the ball or they don't block

them successfully for making it for making a tackle basically.

So it's one of the hardest positions to play behind

QB. And you have to be very disciplined and like

you have to practice your technique like a lot.

So the first thing is how you should line up

whenever you're lining up at cornerback, you should uh you

should you should always line on the line up on

the inside of the wide receiver.

So you should put your outside foot on his inside

foot, lined up with his inside foot.

So you can always keep that inside leverage.

Because cornerbacks, they basically guard the outside receivers and they

don't have much space to work with on the outside.

So if you have inside leverage on them, then if

they come inside, you can get hands on them and

force them to the outside.

So make sure they don't have much space or work

with to catch the ball.

And then this is basically how it's gonna look like

his, I can't really get the angle.

So if you're offering me covers, there's a wide receiver

in front of you, you got to put your output

uh your outside foot in front of your inside foot

just a little bit and then I can't really get

because it might be but put your outside foot in

front back foot back here and have this foot lined

up with his inside foot so you keep inside the

so you get a low a little bit, sit down.

Most people act like they're squatting have dropped their hands,

that's the proper stance, I can't really do it right

because my knee, so you're just gonna bear with me.

So that's how you should line up and if they

get inside of you, you just have to get hands

on them and follow them throughout the route.

And then if they get outside of you then keep

them outside, keep pushing towards the sidelines.

So the quarterback has to make a harder throw, has

to make it on the money.

Uh huh pre snap reads.

So after you line up, you know how to line

up now now and if you're making your reads, sometimes

your receiver sometimes the most outside receiver might not be

towards closer to the sideline, might be closer to the

QB. So if he learns up closer to the QB

or closer to the Cuban than usual then you should

be thinking, oh it might be outside breaking route, right?

So while you're keeping your inside leverage as you're backpedaling

or before he had snapped the ball, you should be

thinking the possible roxy might run, so you might run

a fade which is where he just runs straight and

runs to the outside, closer to the sideline and looks

back and then he might be running a corner out

where he runs straight and it kind of cuts up

at an angle and goes towards the bottom corner of

the end zone and then he might have a comeback

when he runs straight and then comes back down and

turns completely around.

So if he's if he's closer to the quarterback than

usual, then you should already be thinking, oh he might

have an outside breaking route.

So even even if you even if you have inside

leverage, just always have that in the back of your

mind after the play is going as he's running towards

you, he might go outside, he might go outside, so

bam if he goes outside, you ready for that, just

take off the following.

So that's basically what it is for the pre snap

reads. Uh So your first nets?

No, now you're not a line up, you know what

your reeds are.

Now after the ball is snapped you basically I told

you how your feet should be.

So your feet should be, your outside foot should be

up in your inside foot should be back, so should

be lined up like this, inside inside of them, back

up like this, you don't want to move your arms

like this because then your feet, you're gonna kick that,

that's gonna make you slow.

So you gotta calm hands quick backpedals and you should

be back pedaling as fast as the receiver is running

towards you.

So if he's sprinting, you gotta if you if you're

coming off the line soft, you got to be slow

because if he stops and goes back to towards the

QB, you've got to run and get you to me.

So yeah, those are your first steps and then if

he breaks your cushion, meaning if he gets within four

yards of you, then you need to be starting to

turn a little bit.

So you need to be getting out of your back

pedal into phase with the wide receiver.

So when you're turning, you're on his hip and he's

not breaking your cushion and not getting ahead of you

because the main thing about being a quarterback, you have

to be on top of receiver at all times.

So you can always make a play on the ball.

All right.

So you backpedal, you did everything right?

You're turning got hands on them.

But now the main thing is staying phase and be

disciplined. You cannot take your eyes off of the water

receivers hips because his hips tells you where he's going,

he can the receiver can be doing all this stuff

for this feed all this fancy stuff.

He could be trying to joke you all that.

But if you look at his hips, that always tells

you where he's going.

So he he should never get like you should never

get from like on top of them.

Like you should always be on top of the receiver

if you're watching his hips and he does this little

juke move, you know, he's going that way so just

follow him that way.

So that's just what staying disciplined is like don't take

your eyes off of the receiver, keep your eyes on

the receiver, keep keep your eyes on his hips.

And then as you're coming out of your back and

turning once, once the receiver pictures direction that he's going,

you wanna turn staying phase alright, still in the hips

and then turn like this, you want to push off

your uh you're gonna push off the inside foot.

So if he breaks outside then you want to push

off this foot right here and turn like that.

If he breaks inside you wanna well if you if

you have inside leverage you should be getting hands on

that so you should already be on top of it.

So you're already in face.

And basically what being in phase means while he was

running your your out and he already gets you out

of your back pedal and you turn being invaded basically

means you have you're able to touch his hip and

you're able to keep your hand on his hip.

So if you're in phase and you see his eyes

looking back, that's how you know he's getting for the

ball, his eyes might get wide all of that because

you don't want to look back because if you look

back you're gonna lose him.

You always gonna keep your eyes on the receiver.

So once you're in phase you're out of your back

pedal, you have your hand on your hip, you see

him, you see him running, he's looking back now, you

know the balls come.

So if you are in phase you want to play

late cause receivers are taught to put their hands up

like so if you are in phase after, after a

little bit, after a few seconds now you're able to

look back to see where the ball is.

That so you can make a play on the ball

because you're feeling face and you might be able to

get interception Now now uh whenever whenever it comes to

man defense there's man defensive zone defense, just like basketball,

this man defenses on defense.

So if you're in phase and the ball and you

know that the receivers looking back for the ball and

you're in man defense if if I'm backpedaling and he

breaks outside of me like this way and I'm turning

like this to him now I'm in face, hands on

him now I'm looking at him, he looks back football,

I'm running and I'm and I'm looking like this, I'm

not looking at this, yes, since this man coverage, I

have to keep my eyes on on the man.

So I'm turning towards him looking for the ball.

Now if I'm zone then I can look back this

way. It doesn't really matter because I just don't.

So that's basically what it is.

You got to stay disciplined at those uh tactics and

all that.

You can't you can't look off of his hips, you

can't look anywhere else.

You gotta you gotta stay on top of you feel

so uh oh wait actually, and then if your auto

phase then you can't look back at all.

If you can't touch his hips and you can't like

if you're not on top of them close to them

like this and you can't touch his hips and like

grab onto his jersey a little bit, then you have

to just chase him, can't look back and once he

puts his hands up, don't look back at all.

If you can't touch him, don't look back at all.

And once he goes up to catch the ball, just

play his hands as quick as possible, just break up

the past because pass breakups are worth a lot because

interceptions are hard to get because again D.

B. Is one of the hardest positions to playing football

because it's a guessing game and then give effort and

make a place.

So no matter how it is, if you're on top

of them, not on top of them, if you're in

face, not in phase and uh just just give effort

and make a play on the ball.

Either way, you gotta make an interception, you gotta make

a tackle, you gotta gotta do something, break, break up

the past, so, so that's pretty much all it is.

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