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Ekern55
There’s not a red card violation where you only jump routes if you’re playing man defense as opposed to zone.
Zone merely leads to man defense. At some point a man enters your zone and if rotations and assignments are locked in and the ball is in the air, it doesn’t matter if you’ve followed the man the whole time during entire snap or whether a receiver entered your zone, you’ve got to cover that man.
Zone leads to a man-on-man situations unless the play is extended and the receiver leaves your zone.
If you don’t cover a guy in your zone, you have a hot potato situation: you cover him! No you!
Sure. Are there times when you have two receivers in your zone at the same time? But do you leave them both unmanned-up? That’s the cushion of death on steroids. No coaches teach that.
So, you can jump routes from zone or from man coverage. I’ve seen it both ways as has everyone on this board.
I want to know what you are calling "jumping routes"
Rams play Match Man---that is the Fangio scheme, read the route concept and match the routes which allows for route jumping.
But you are talking "jumping routes" because it usually is from off (out of phase) coverage or from the next-over zone (looking for work) or from a lurk/rob position. Or can be the backside of Cover-2 (poach) not tight coverage (trail or in phase coverage)
The way it is done is from facing the QB and seeing things develop.
So, what you are seeing is a failure of players to make those plays. That is their intent - see the route, fix on the man and drive to the ball. Players did it better in 2020 than in 2021-22.
When you see picks from a jumped route it's exactly that--see it, react to it and drive to the ball. That is what these DBs need to do and don't get done--but they miss or drop the ball. Kendricks did exactly that but was too slow to get there in 1st 49er game and Samual went for a long one.
Almost all of these DBs don't have the kind of ability to do it well. It's not the philosophy it's the execution
