WIll start with Cov-2

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RamsFanSince69
some of what a couple of your posted defenses intend to take away?

Cover-2 is meant to take away short stuff...it is 5 underneath zones...so 5 guys across 55 yards and 2 deep---2 guys across 55 yards---the 2 deep ar what are vulnerable. To play it you need 2 safeties with range...when Seattle was great they didn't play it. Kam Chancellor was not able to do it.

Tampa-2 is in between Cov-2 and Cov-2 ... it has 4 short and 2 deep but has a middle runner who kind of takes both a short middle and short deep zone (called the hole) so he can allow both safeties to go outside and help

so the areas that are not pink are areas the offense wants to hit...there is more room deeper....but the defensive theory is you have to have a good 4-man rush because if you don't your 2 deep guys are vulnerable. But they are they to "put a cap" on any vertical routes... so those short zones are covered by the CBs and LBers, but if a WR goes deep a CB stays with him and


Here is if an outside WR goes vertical...the CB will stay with him, trail, and the safety will cap the route---Jon Gruden talks abut
where there is an opening the "Turkey hole" the place where a QB can throw before even a good 1/2-field safety can get there.


So, in short, Cover-2 is is better for stop short stuff and more vulnerable deep. It compensates by building with a good pass rush.
so when teams do take a "shot" the QB won't have time to make good throw.---

It would and was used against teams like West coast offenses--short routes, offense that stretched the field horizontally, had a lot
of picks in their routes...when receives cross it's a pick play...and in zone you don't get picked off like in man to man



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/04/2023 10:02AM by JimYoungblood53.