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But it's also possible that you're just remembering more of the 'off coverage' situations because they tend to be the more frustrating plays. It's awful watching us give up several 4 yard plays and experience death by a thousand cuts.
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My friends, that approach worked more often than not.
Last year the Rams defense was ranked 4th in 3rd down conversion percentage allowed.
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But, you will be glad to know, in terms of style, Phillips tends to use a lot of man, when he has the players who can play man. He tends to alternate it with other coverages including a lot of matchup zone. I remember reading him talk about that a couple of times.
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...last week, [Phillips] explained the Broncos’ defense isn’t as simple as some think. They play man-to-man, sure, they play zone, but they also play matchup zone.
“Good thing they’re confused. That’s good,” Phillips told the media of Denver’s opponents at the UC Health Training Center on Thursdsay. “I’m pretty confusing usually. We play a matchup zone and people think it’s man-to-man. Then we play man-to-man and we play some basic zone.”
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matchup zone, which is more complicated....takes pieces of both man-to-man and zone and combines them into a defense which can confuse even the best quarterbacks – like Tom Brady last week – and the best of defenses can play it due to tremendous talent, solid study habits and top-notch communication.
“We say, ‘Hey, you’re playing this zone, but when a guy comes over there, you match with him,’” Phillips explained. “You pass it off, just like in basketball. When another guy comes there, you go there. That’s the simple way to tell you how we played matchup zone. We play a lot of match zone, but people think we’re playing man-to-man. Hopefully that confuses them. It probably confused you already.”
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Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 07/06/2017 12:39PM by zn.
