I'm gonna take a wild guess and say that you don't have a subscription to The Athletic. If that's the case you are judging Jourdan without even seeing the evidence.
Almost none of her stuff gets posted here because it's mostly behind that pay wall.
I lifted this passage, written by Jourdan, from a post leafnose authored here [
ramsrule.com] What do you think of this analysis?
if you play single high against the modern passing offense you’re gonna get eaten alive by the end of Q1…just like McVay’s offenses used to do to cover 3 in 17-18 and essentially killed that scheme. You also can’t play dominantly man without multiple elite CBs because of the amount of 11 personnel out there now + really good 1 and 2 receivers…you could maybe split the field but still you’re giving your opponent a math advantage because they’ll load up the other 2 and the pass catching TE on the non-man side and leave that guy out of the game completely. Most of the league is now playing quarters concepts at their highest ever rate. Now, that said - yeah, 100% the Rams absolutely need to get more aggressive in how they “match” within that zone philosophy as I’ve illustrated quite a lot. You can turn a zone almost into a man post-snap if you have the right players and buy into that type of philosophy and accept that there could be some bumps along the way. So like to paint the picture a little better - if you match route tendencies (studying thru the week) and smother down over the top of them out of a zone pre-snap look, you can be “sticky” while not becoming too vulnerable to the explosive pass that triples scoring probability on a drive. You also need an effective pass rush. Multiple things!
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