Importance of QB Pressure in the Nickel Defense

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Billy Kidd, here at Expert Village and we're going to talk about the nickel defense. The other thing that it does to it or one possibility is that you've put an extra defensive back in here to cover these receivers but if you can't get presser on your quarter back when he drops back to pass with these guys or a combination of these guys then what you've got is four receivers at least possibly five if this back sneaks out, out here running routes. If you can't get presser on this quarter back because you don't have a good enough defensive front or line backers that have a designed blitz that can get in the back field then you're going to get one of these guys come free eventually because there is no way that you're defensive backs can cover four wide receivers or five wide receivers in more than about two or three seconds without one of them coming free and if your quarter back has time to find them he going to get him the ball."