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Best Defensive Playbooks

Updated Sep 07, 20264 min readplaybooksdefense4-3nickel-load-mugcover-2-mannickel-overcover-6match-coverage

Three playbooks worth building a whole scheme around, from BLT's post-Roster -Update breakdown. This is the defensive companion to Best Offensive Playbooks: pick one book, learn its handful of setups, stop calling random plays.

Read this first — Title Update 4 (Sep 3) landed the day after this video. TU4 nerfed man coverage, and specifically increased the penalty for shading the wrong way of the release in man press. That hits Pick 1's headline setup — the Cover 2 Man press-shade-underneath funnel — hardest: shading everyone inside is now a bigger gamble than it was on Sep 2. It still works when you read the release right, but it is no longer free. The match coverage (Cover 6) and the zone-behind-the -blitz setups below are unaffected and are the safer post-patch picks. Full notes: Patch Tracker, Beating Man Coverage.

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01Pick 1 — the 4-3 (best coverage book)02Pick 2 — the Dime 3-2 (off-meta third-and-long)03Pick 3 — the 4-2-5 Man Pressure (the do-everything book)04Which one
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