🏈🌴 Coach Explains What The PALMS Defense Is And When To Play It

Tre Stewart, a defensive backs coach at Illinois College in Jacksonville, IL. The strength call of the linebacker determines what side of the field the cornerbacks and safeties are supposed to play the coverage. PALMS coverage is basically a cover 2 read coverage to play against more complex offensive schemes.

The cornerback is supposed to engage a read step and gather step before committing to his assignment. The field cornerback and the boundary cornerback will have the same technique. In the video Coach Tre shows us the coverage in film study.

This defense requires the corners and safeties to play against key reads, with communication extremely tight. This also requires extremely athletic DBs to be able to recover from any key read mistakes.

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