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(11-24-2021, 11:19 PM)KillerGoose Wrote: 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.

I know that there's a lot to coverage's and defensive schemes and I'm not pretending to know anywhere near a coach at any level. But coaches can out think themselves or not adjust there scheme to match a certain situation that a casual fan can clearly see is a problem. I can tell watching the game that we can't give Mike White 400yds at 3.7YPA and maybe we should cover the running back. Now I might not be able to call the defensive to use to achieve this but apparently neither can Lou. But I'm not a NFL defensive coordinator.