Coach 57
10-23-2015, 12:33 PM
I've always taught that football is like a kid who spends his/her allowance. Once it's spent it's SPENT. I remember my grandparents giving me a dollar and sometimes they'd say "don't spend it all in one place!" Only they really weren't kidding. But you may be asking: "What in the world does this have to do with Redmond's injury?" Well let me see if I can help.
No matter offense or defense you have 11 guys (proverbial dollar). How you spend that "dollar" is entirely up to you. But on defense (which I'm more accustomed to dealing with) we have to NOW be more wise in how we spend our dollar more than ever. And by which it WILL effect the offense, I don't care WHAT anybody else says....it will. As some have noticed we have been more in a 4-2-5 set deleting Jackson. There are two ways we can approach this: 1.) We can play off more and more zone and give up more short routes (stops, digs, sticks, outs etc etc). It will prevent more deep plays (which we've been better at all year mostly) and keep everything in our face. This is by far the safest way to go! It allows us when the "window closes" inside the 15/10 yd line to get more aggressive. But since we no longer have a legit shutdown guy in one on one match ups it DOES HURT US BADLY! 2.) We can challenge whomever takes Will's spot to be more aggressive at the LOS and jam the WRs and expect him to create windows of opportunity create more pass rush! But will create a greater percentage of down the field opps for big plays and that (based on our offenses performances) could be catastrophic! I think Manny will mix and sprinkle these in when he sees fit. It does handcuff him though as a DC.
What would I do? I will use rolling coverages and hybrid coverages to confuse the QB for more INTs. Here's how, just as a safety can be "looked off" by the QB he also can roll to fake the QB out as well. Doing these things will place tremendous pressure on our safeties...BOTH OF THEM! But it's (to me worth it). You can play man in one side and zone on the other combo'ing the coverages to make the defense be LESS reactive. But to do this, EVERYONE MUST BE ON THE SAME PAGE! And I don't suggest doing it THAT much, because it's rare to have everyone on defense react the RIGHT WAY on every play. But you can split the field right off of the MLB's inside hip making one side zone & the other man. But it takes an extreme level of fluidity with all the personnel on the field. That's why normally you won't see these coverages until you get to the NFL. But if taught and properly executed it confuses the QB who just sent his slot in motion to see if it's man or zone. And as he assumes one coverage and yet the stops that work in zone pockets NORMALLY work are no longer there or if he thinks it's man and tries the crosser only to see zone...it makes him hang on to the ball far longer than he'd like and BOOM....SACK! Either way, "spend your dollar wisely and don't spend it in one place!"
No matter offense or defense you have 11 guys (proverbial dollar). How you spend that "dollar" is entirely up to you. But on defense (which I'm more accustomed to dealing with) we have to NOW be more wise in how we spend our dollar more than ever. And by which it WILL effect the offense, I don't care WHAT anybody else says....it will. As some have noticed we have been more in a 4-2-5 set deleting Jackson. There are two ways we can approach this: 1.) We can play off more and more zone and give up more short routes (stops, digs, sticks, outs etc etc). It will prevent more deep plays (which we've been better at all year mostly) and keep everything in our face. This is by far the safest way to go! It allows us when the "window closes" inside the 15/10 yd line to get more aggressive. But since we no longer have a legit shutdown guy in one on one match ups it DOES HURT US BADLY! 2.) We can challenge whomever takes Will's spot to be more aggressive at the LOS and jam the WRs and expect him to create windows of opportunity create more pass rush! But will create a greater percentage of down the field opps for big plays and that (based on our offenses performances) could be catastrophic! I think Manny will mix and sprinkle these in when he sees fit. It does handcuff him though as a DC.
What would I do? I will use rolling coverages and hybrid coverages to confuse the QB for more INTs. Here's how, just as a safety can be "looked off" by the QB he also can roll to fake the QB out as well. Doing these things will place tremendous pressure on our safeties...BOTH OF THEM! But it's (to me worth it). You can play man in one side and zone on the other combo'ing the coverages to make the defense be LESS reactive. But to do this, EVERYONE MUST BE ON THE SAME PAGE! And I don't suggest doing it THAT much, because it's rare to have everyone on defense react the RIGHT WAY on every play. But you can split the field right off of the MLB's inside hip making one side zone & the other man. But it takes an extreme level of fluidity with all the personnel on the field. That's why normally you won't see these coverages until you get to the NFL. But if taught and properly executed it confuses the QB who just sent his slot in motion to see if it's man or zone. And as he assumes one coverage and yet the stops that work in zone pockets NORMALLY work are no longer there or if he thinks it's man and tries the crosser only to see zone...it makes him hang on to the ball far longer than he'd like and BOOM....SACK! Either way, "spend your dollar wisely and don't spend it in one place!"