Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:My brother has many talents. He can do deadly impressions of non-famous people, he can discover music that I enjoy four weeks before it hits any radio station, and he used to play college football. I will now ask him questions about - TOPIC ONE!! - football!
Q: Mike, a Cover-2 defense is one where there are two safeties deep, and they break on the ball once its thrown, correct? What's the best way to defeat this defense? Did you play it in college? What kind of athletes / players do you need to correctly run this defense?
Jesus Christ.
A cover two defense has corners up and safties back
like this
...........FS..............SS
CB.................................CB
The Free Safety (FS) and Strong Safety (SS) are the same thing in this D with "zone" responsabilities. They each must cover the deepest wide receiver (WR) on their half of the field.
The Corner backs play the outside most WR and try to jam for the first five yards of his route. The linebacker, typically 3 in this case cover the middle of the field in between the cornerbacks and in front of the safeties.
How to beat it? You beat it by getting WRs in to soft spots in the zone. When the defense is in cover two you cannot run certain patterns. A five yard out will result in a TD for the defense because the two corners are playing outside and between 0-5 yards of the line of scrimmage. So... quick slants to the inside, inbetween where the CB and LB would be are effective. "fade", seam and slant patterns are the best way to defeat it. X marks the 4 most vulnurable spots in the defense. They can be achieved by sending a WR down the sidline on a fade, or on a slant to the middle. Or by a Tight End who line up near the linemen running straight down the field inbetween the LB's
..............S.................S
x...................................................x
.................. x..........x...........
...........LB.........LB........LB
CB......................................CB
Now... You can also run what is called a "flood" This is where you send multiple WRs in to a zone but they are running differnt patterns. Like running one WR down the sideline, and on a deep slant on the same half of the field, this forces the Safety to have to cover two guys. If he sucks and chooses one you have a TD by throwing to the other WR, the safety has to best split the difference between the guys and be able to break on the ball when the QB decides.
Talent plays a major role here. If you have a good pass rush, nobody has to cover long. Sometimes linebackers are sent in to blitz leaving a gaping hole in the zone. Good QBs see who blitzes and fire to the WR in that vacant zone.
Unfortunatley teams will also show a Cover Two but when the ball is snapped revert to other forms of D. WRs convert their patterns to different zones. The WR and the QB must both recoginze this. The defense in this case is in a "Cloud" defense I belive. I guess cloud means like clouding their intentions.
So next time yyu see a QB throw to 10 yards of empty dirt, somebody usually converted to the wrong pattern. And next time you think TO, Moss or Plaxico are mindless thug idiots, remember they do have the ability to read defenses in seconds and process that to run correct conversion routes on the fly.
[quote="Ice Cream Jonsey"]My brother has many talents. He can do deadly impressions of non-famous people, he can discover music that I enjoy four weeks before it hits any radio station, and he used to play college football. I will now ask him questions about - [i]TOPIC ONE!![/i] - football!
[b]Q: [/b] Mike, a Cover-2 defense is one where there are two safeties deep, and they break on the ball once its thrown, correct? What's the best way to defeat this defense? Did you play it in college? What kind of athletes / players do you need to correctly run this defense?[/quote]
Jesus Christ.
A cover two defense has corners up and safties back
like this
...........FS..............SS
CB.................................CB
The Free Safety (FS) and Strong Safety (SS) are the same thing in this D with "zone" responsabilities. They each must cover the deepest wide receiver (WR) on their half of the field.
The Corner backs play the outside most WR and try to jam for the first five yards of his route. The linebacker, typically 3 in this case cover the middle of the field in between the cornerbacks and in front of the safeties.
How to beat it? You beat it by getting WRs in to soft spots in the zone. When the defense is in cover two you cannot run certain patterns. A five yard out will result in a TD for the defense because the two corners are playing outside and between 0-5 yards of the line of scrimmage. So... quick slants to the inside, inbetween where the CB and LB would be are effective. "fade", seam and slant patterns are the best way to defeat it. X marks the 4 most vulnurable spots in the defense. They can be achieved by sending a WR down the sidline on a fade, or on a slant to the middle. Or by a Tight End who line up near the linemen running straight down the field inbetween the LB's
..............S.................S
x...................................................x
.................. x..........x...........
...........LB.........LB........LB
CB......................................CB
Now... You can also run what is called a "flood" This is where you send multiple WRs in to a zone but they are running differnt patterns. Like running one WR down the sideline, and on a deep slant on the same half of the field, this forces the Safety to have to cover two guys. If he sucks and chooses one you have a TD by throwing to the other WR, the safety has to best split the difference between the guys and be able to break on the ball when the QB decides.
Talent plays a major role here. If you have a good pass rush, nobody has to cover long. Sometimes linebackers are sent in to blitz leaving a gaping hole in the zone. Good QBs see who blitzes and fire to the WR in that vacant zone.
Unfortunatley teams will also show a Cover Two but when the ball is snapped revert to other forms of D. WRs convert their patterns to different zones. The WR and the QB must both recoginze this. The defense in this case is in a "Cloud" defense I belive. I guess cloud means like clouding their intentions.
So next time yyu see a QB throw to 10 yards of empty dirt, somebody usually converted to the wrong pattern. And next time you think TO, Moss or Plaxico are mindless thug idiots, remember they do have the ability to read defenses in seconds and process that to run correct conversion routes on the fly.