Brian Vaughn: Reading the Turn of the Protection in Pressure Concepts

by Southern California Football Coaches Association

Description

Every protection has weak spots. One way to defeat a protection and get to the quarterback is to find the weakness and exploit it.

“Reading the turn” of the protection allows the defense to have a tool that is built to find the weakness and attack it. This happens at the snap of the ball.

Reading the turn concepts are not a replacement for call it run pressures or other pressure packages, but they provide a tool that allows players who don’t rush all the time like hybrid safety/linebacker types, but their athleticism can maximize their rush.

Offenses have become good in not allowing a defense to lock in on their protection. Reading the protection allows a defense to be right.

Coach Vaughn covers how to teach this with a modular approach which allows the use of a limited set of techniques. The terminology he suggests is easy to understand and implement.

This package allows a defense to build a “utility belt” of concepts that can build from spring ball all the way through the season.

If you want a tool that gives you a better chance of getting to the quarterback against any port action, then you will want to check out what Coach Vaughn has put together with his “Reading the Turn of the Protection” course.

Lessons

READING THE TURN

1 What is Reading the Turn? 2:58 2 Why Read the Turn? - Pros 2:27 3 Building a Teaching Model 2:10

CONCEPTS

4 Heels - Face 2:36 5 Baker 3:25 6 Baker - Practice Clips #1 3:34 7 Baker - Practice Clips #2 4:51 8 Baker - Practice Clips #3 1:55 9 Ninja 1:47 10 Ninja - Game Clips 1:52 11 Whiskey 1:04 12 Whiskey - Game Clips 1:43 13 Blazer 0:54 14 Blazer - Game Clips 0:42 15 Tags 1:54

Q&A

16 Q&A 1:48

The Coach

Southern California Football Coaches Association

Brian Vaughn | the University of Nebraska at Kearney | LB Coach

An Illinois native, Vaughn has had coaching stops at Division II Florida Tech, Division III Rhodes (Tenn.) College, Rose-Hulman (Ind.) Institute of Technology, and WesternNew England (Mass.) University as well as junior college member New Mexico Military Institute. As a player, he was a defensive back at Division III Illinois College.

Vaughn most recently was co-defensive coordinator and defensive backs coach at Florida Tech. The Panthers began playing football in 2013 and competed in the tough Gulf South Conference (GSC). Tech reached the 2018 D2 playoffs but the program was dropped in May 2020 due to financial strains from the ongoing pandemic. Vaughn saw the 2019 Panther defense have 11 interceptions for 125 yards and one score, 21 sacks, and five forced fumbles. Three were named to the GSC all-league team including two defensive backs.

He was defensive coordinator at Rhodes, located in Memphis, during the 2017 season while being the DC at NMMI from 2014-16. There he crossed paths with Lynn and current Loper offensive coordinator Drew Thatcher as well as several future UNK players. Vaughn was DC at Rose-Hulman in Terre Haute, Ind., for six years where he developed 22 all-league players and helped the Fightin’ Engineers win a conference title for the first time in a quarter-century. Finally, he began his coaching career at WNEU in Springfield, Mass., and was the Golden Bears DC for four years.