Coaching Football – Trips and Safeties Drill

While coaching football I like staying in the coverage that we called if the offense lines up in some sort of one back formation. Trips especially confuses Safeties for some odd reason. I came up with this half line cover 3 football drill for the safety and the trips side corner.

You align your corner and safety however you want to align them for your cover 3 and then you just rep and rep and rep plays to that side until the safety and corner can successfully jump the correct route.

I number the receivers from the outside in. So in trips the X is 1, the slot is 2, and the trips back is 3. From the corner’s perspective he keys through number 1 to number 2. If number 1 disappears or slants/posts inside then he looks for number 2 coming at him. If 1 and 2 both disappear inside he then looks for number 3 coming at him.

The safety has the same progression except he starts with number 3 and works his way out. After my safeties and corners have repped this football drill enough, they do not get beat on wheels up the sideline and the corner will have success robbing or jumping a route and making a pick for you or a huge hit on number 1 or 2 slanting/posting at him.

These same rules are used if the offense is in a slot with a weak offset I formation.

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