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(09-08-2024, 06:16 PM)Au165 Wrote: Even in cover two, you have to take shots down the field and trust your guys. When we threw it to Iosivas we got the DPi. Looking at other games around the league, you see QBs giving their guys a chance to win contested catches. I’m not saying you make a living of it but we can’t be scared to push vertical even when it’s not ideal.

For instance, let’s say we went trips  and locked Burton to the backside with Chase in the slot and  wide to the trips side. With Chase in the slot in this case you have a stressed to two high because Burton is now iso but has the safety over him. This most likely would create a check to a lock call on that side and the Safety overtop would now rob to take away Chase running the cross/post. Now we can push vertical to Burtonwho has excelled at that one thin this whole preseason.

If you want, swap Burton and Chase. Now they don’t lock Chase and you can use Burton in the slot to split the two high. If they are off Chase you can run the slant to Chase on the iso side as the leverage will be to the strong side. There are answers, it can’t just be run 3 yard drags or panic.

We have to figure out how to schematically deal with cover two or we go nowhere. Running is the easy answer but we suck at doing it so we need other answers with our passing game and they are there but we can’t just do the same crap we have always done.

Yes. Cover 2 is so basic. The Bengals scheme is just weak.