11-24-2021, 11:19 PM
(11-24-2021, 10:56 PM)NUGDUKWE Wrote: Well in 2019 when we played the Rams Brandin Cooks went out on the 1st series and they had already leaned heavily on Kupp. So anyone who even casually watched football would think to double Kupp but instead we let him go for 220yds and 1 TD. That's an example of general ineptitude. I'd just look at those 1st 2 years and we were just generally terrible. While I know this year we have been good I think the loss to the Jets and the severity of the loss to the Browns are really on Lou. You don't let Mike White throw for 400+yds at 3.7 YPA and not have some personnel/scheme issues. Also on some of the key plays the Browns had we had some wacky formations and players lined up in unusual positions. I'd also like to point out that the Jets and the Browns looked terrible before we played them and have looked terrible since.
The casual fan is generally wrong and doesn’t know much about football. The NFL as a whole is very zone heavy, which makes double coverage difficult since your players are assigned to areas of the field. Overall, you’re going to see a lot of MOF coverage, so cover 1 and cover 3. In cover 3, you aren’t covering anyone but covering an area of the field. In cover 1, you’re running man with a single high safety.
In cover 1, you typically have two free defenders - one high, one low. The defender high will play seam help but could be used to bracket or double whereas the defender low is going to be playing RAT (rob and trade). You have some flexibility here. However, like I mentioned, the NFL is zone heavy and you can’t just double someone in zone because you leave a hole. Generally, to double a WR just means you have a guy manned up with help over the top. You also might have a RAT low for routes over the middle.
Contrary to popular belief, NFL coaches really know their shit and a casual fan can’t tell them anything. The casual fan would struggle to hold a conversation with high school coaches. That doesn’t mean that coaches can’t be critiqued, but to say that they make issues even the casual fan could avoid is silly.
