How do you stop corner routes playing zone?

I’m not the greatest player.  Getting frustrated. 
 

I play man and lose to crossers. 
 

Play zone and can’t stop corner routes at all. 
 

What’s the secret to zone coverage as man gets trashed by anyone good?

Appreciate any help

jinxpalm said:

I’m not the greatest player.  Getting frustrated. 
 

I play man and lose to crossers. 
 

Play zone and can’t stop corner routes at all. 
 

What’s the secret to zone coverage as man gets trashed by anyone good?

Appreciate any help

Zone knockouts

30 yard flats

As said above 30 yard flats will stop corners more often then not....they can be stopped with man too by shading underneath and outside.  The issue with either of these is they will leave your pants down to just about anything else.  I've personally found best option is to user the deep safety on the side you are worried about the corner

ThorAres said:

As said above 30 yard flats will stop corners more often then not....they can be stopped with man too by shading underneath and outside.  The issue with either of these is they will leave your pants down to just about anything else.  I've personally found best option is to user the deep safety on the side you are worried about the corner

I’ve tried user safety and a lot of people run double corner routes and throw other side

match cover 4/ base align / shade outside

20-30 yard cloud flats, has to be a cloud. Hard flats won't back up fast enough, soft squats will bite on underneath routes. Avoid using curl flats for anything other than 0-5 yard quick routes, or to cover rbs in the flats. other than that curl flats are absolutely worthless

jinxpalm said:

I’m not the greatest player.  Getting frustrated. 
 

I play man and lose to crossers. 
 

Play zone and can’t stop corner routes at all. 
 

What’s the secret to zone coverage as man gets trashed by anyone good?

Appreciate any help

Yup, I have the same problem with the crossers & corners smh.

I’ve found that zone gets massacred by anyone, maybe I just suck but I try outside coverage and user middle and they still find ways to embarrass me. I really play man blitz and user inside routes and try to bait a sus throw over the middle then pick it off, or hope the pressure gets to the QB before he can shred me deep. Works sometimes but defense coverage is so hard this year cuz my cpu defenders are stupid lol

ThorAres said:

As said above 30 yard flats will stop corners more often then not....they can be stopped with man too by shading underneath and outside.  The issue with either of these is they will leave your pants down to just about anything else.  I've personally found best option is to user the deep safety on the side you are worried about the corner

which plays for 30 hard flats

jinxpalm said:

I’m not the greatest player.  Getting frustrated. 
 

I play man and lose to crossers. 
 

Play zone and can’t stop corner routes at all. 
 

What’s the secret to zone coverage as man gets trashed by anyone good?

Appreciate any help

Learn to make defensive adjustments. The most generic way to cover a corner route in zone is adjusting your curl flats(purple ones) to 30 yards and choosing cover 3 or cover 4 so you have an over the top and underneath guy defending corner routes. Man coverage can stop corners, man can be OP but it all comes down to your pre snap adjustment. You need to choose the correct combo between inside/outside shade and overtop/underneath(correct combo as in you predicting the WRs route). If you choose right the coverage will lock down any route, if you choose wrong then your CB is getting cooked. Man is a huge risk/reward.

i usually user a safety with lurk or pick artist and on the closet guy for the closet yards if so js  get your guy zone ko or something

Ifeo5 said:

which plays for 30 hard flats

Tampa 2 in Nickel is pretty nice for those corners and out routes. You have to worry about deep routes in the middle of the field as that is the weakness of the play. Or you can set your sub in the middle to a deep middle 3rd. Which really just turns it into a cover 3. Sometimes it can confuse people though when you look like you're in one coverage and your players start rotating as soon as the ball is snapped.

I think the main problem is that usually a safety or a sub lb is covering the inside guy on 1 of the corner routes…my solution was to put a maxed out eric berry at sub lb 1 Jack Campbell at sub lb 2 the 89 blitz free safety his name escapes me at FS night train lane at SS and my corners are 92 surtain champ Bailey 91 and 91 Riley plus I got the +3 man coverage card and I lockdown basically any receiver any route combination playing just base nickel cover 1 hole i literally run that play 75% of the time cover 2 men the other 25% and In 200 h2h games im 120-80 and my averase ppg against is only 11.2 also I use medium man ko as my ability on my top 3 corners mentioned above hope this helps u

Pressed outside quarters with deep out zone ko.