Match Quarters: A Modern Guidebook to Split-Field Coverages
If you want to know what the future of football is going to look like, talk to a high school coach. The schemes we are seeing in the NFL now are designs that high school coaches were running years ago. The football world – and in particular #FootballTwitter – is filled with brilliant schematic minds who are more than willing to outline what they run at the high school level. Talk to people like @CoachVass (who has a tremendous podcast and website coachvass.com), @CoachCogan (who is fluent in “Sabanese”) and others and you will learn a ton in no time.
One of the other brilliant minds on the defensive side of the ball is Cody Alexander. His website, MatchQuarters.com, takes you through a ton of defensive concepts, and his book “Match Quarters: A Modern Guidebook to Split-Field Coverages” is a tremendous deep dive into the many variations and nuances of split-field and quarters coverages. You can find this book and his other work at MatchQuarters.com, and you can follow Cody on Twitter @The_Coach_A.