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Killrazor
I'd say that "Maybe" Goff is better these days at reading and adjusting to the 5-1 over front and quarters coverage behind strategy that was used against him in the super bowl and actually conceived of by the Lions that year to shut the Rams offense down.
*6-1 not 5-1 but yes, Lions did come up with blue print...and before that Bears did the quarters thing---
Belichick would run the 6-1 vs 11 personnel when Higbee was the lone TE
and a more usual nickel when Everett was the TE--he had D play pass
but you are right---the zones Pats ran confused Goff - and McVay
they did the quarters as you correctly mention plus a form of 3 buzz
(I showed an example of that recently under the Star post)
but they had one of the underguys---play deeper in a short middle of the field
position . . . kind of a robber
I'd call it 3 Buzz Robber
on the quarters they'd play quarters one side and Cover-2 the other, then throw
in blitzes they didn't use during the season
kind of got the front and 3-buzz robber from Lions and the quarters from
Fangio and the Bears. (and this is what Rams have run since 2020, show
quarters 2/4 shell, then rotate to cover three more often than any coverage,
including quarters--McVay wanted it)
I am sure Goff has to be better at all that now. He has to be. He had no experience
with it, and McVay didn't have answers that day but came back to win SB with
lots of teams trying to copy was Pats did in 2018
