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Summary: Learn how to drop back in coverage as a linebacker in this free video clip on football. Get football tips from a coach and improve your playing.

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How to Drop Back in Coverage as Linebacker

Hi, this is Sean Hobson, for Expert Village. What we want to talk about now is that sometimes the linebacker's responsibility isn't just to come up and stop the run play. Sometimes your linebackers will have to drop back in coverage. Here's a couple of things to think about when you're a linebacker dropping back into coverage. First of all, he has gap responsibilities. We've mentioned that before. So, as soon as the ball is snapped and the quarterback takes the ball he has to take one step up, look at his gap and make sure nobody is coming through the gap. Once he reads that the quarterback is dropping back, he has to take some steps back into coverage. Now he has to make some decisions. First decision is if the quarterback is staring straight down the middle of the field your outside linebackers and middle linebackers are going to pick up the side with multiple receivers. Right now you have a man in the slot that's eligible and you have a wide receiver that's eligible that you don't have on the other side. We want to automatically shift to the side if the quarterback is looking to the middle or if the quarterback opens himself to this side of the field. The linebacker has to read that and start moving that way in coverage. If the quarterback opens up and is focused to the right then we want our linebackers to try to cheat to that side to try to come in and make a play or help on the play. So, as a linebacker, you want to read the quarterback, look at where he's going and try to adjust yourself to help out on that side of the field.

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