How to Avoid Yellow Flag as Cornerback

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Hi this is Sean Hobson for Expert Village. One thing we want to talk about while being a good cornerback one of the things you cannot do is you cannot hurt your team by trying to make a big play, by trying to be aggressive and trying to stop the receiver and then you draw the yellow flag and you've backed your team up or you've given their team positive yardage and you've cost your team a little bit. So we're going to talk about a few things you cannot do in order to draw a flag. One of the things you can do within a five yard spread is you can make contact with the receiver. If you've big enough and strong enough to stay with this guy to check him, you can stay with him. But once he goes past five yards, you cannot make any type of contact with him. If he tries to go into the slant you can't bump him off the slant route or stay on his hip. If he's going to the outside, you're not allowed to shove him to the outside or push him out of the pattern. Any contact like that prior to the ball getting there is going to be a call, a yellow flag for pass interference. Now there are a couple of other things you can't do. If this guy is going up to make a catch you can't grab his jersey, you can't grab his arm and pull down on it. If you're not looking back and you just go up here, and get involved in the play, that's going to be an interference call. Also, if you're trying to defend this guy and trying to come up and cheat the ball you cannot (face this play like you're going to catch it) you cannot come up and put a hand in his back and reach around to make the play. You can come around the front, but you have to keep this hand off. Basically you want to remember to not make any incidental contact before the ball gets there. You can't hold, you can't hold their arms down. Just try to stay away from them when they're trying to make a play as a cornerback.

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