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(03-21-2023, 08:37 PM)Au165 Wrote: This is literally the exact opposite of how this works. People stay in cover two to keep you out of creating chunk plays, this is why teams went to it two years ago against the chiefs. You beat cover two by being patient and taking the underneath routes. Let me repeat that again, a team with the most dynamic TE and WR in the league were relegated to taking the underneath routes and checking to runs to get teams out of cover 2.

If they give it to you all day then you take it all day, that is how you beat cover 2. It works because teams get impatient and want the big play and that is what they are banking on. The best way to get a team out of it is to efficiently run on a lite box but we have not done that well. That said Burrow after the first game was one of the best QBs in the league against it so it’s all a moot point.

The TE is not the answer, but the real point here is there isn’t really a problem to be the answer for.

Let me repeat this again for the people hard of hearing in the back. You attack cover two with TE, RB and Slot WR. The cover two is designed to double team your outside WR's. Tyler Boyd was averaging 15 yards per catch at the start of the season the highest he ever had. You can get chunk plays by sending your outside WR deep drawing coverage downfield and attacking underneath but still 15 yards downfield which is a chunk play. Your Slot TE and RB can all get 10-to-20-yard chunk plays while attacking cover two. You seem to be under the impression chunk plays are 40 yards downfield which is untrue. We was using our RB and TE mostly as 5-yard checkdowns and not pushing the ball downfield against cover two. We also threw a ton of behind the line of scrimmage throws and screens which got blew up 80% of the time and put us in 2nd and 12 or 3rd and 10. Bad scheme attacking too short and making us have 10, 12, 15 play drives. Joe Burrow is one of the most accurate QB in the NFL and you want him to throw checkdowns all year negating his strength. 20 yard throws are perfect for Joe to tear up cover two the intermediate routes playing to his strengths and attacking {again for those in the cheap seats} with TE, RB and the slot WR getting 15-to-20-yard chunk plays.

You would like to get the other team out of cover two so we can go downfield to Chase and Higgins more right? Since we plan on paying these guys a ton of cash well get chunk plays underneath to do it.