Our TE's - Eifert, Kroft, Uzomah

[BFritz21]

(07-21-2015, 01:04 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Teams generally don't play a safety in the box against a one-back set.  And even when a safety plays in the box he would still have coverage priority over a LB.  So he would pick up coverage on a TE before a LB would.

If you have 2 TE and 2 WR they are going to be covered by 2 safeties and 2 CBs.

You claim that a second DB would double on Green, but that is not man-to-man double coverage.  It is deep zone help coverage that only becomes a double team if there are not 3 other receivers running downfield routes.  
 

Except teams have to play a safety in the box against Hill because he's a hell of a back that can easily rattle off 5 yards a pop as a lone back, and, if he gets into the open field, good luck with a safety trying to tackle him.

And, no, a safety can't cover either tight end in the open field (if they even had two to do so, which they don't because of Hill), because then we just do something like this which it's even easier for a tight end to beat a safety in the open field than it is for a receiver to beat anyone on the outside because the tight end has the entire field to work with.  

It won't always be man-to-man like that video, but just because a team runs a zone, doesn't mean that they suddenly have enough players to guard every area.

Even if they're not running man-to-man double coverage on Green, they still have more than one person to account for him. and you say about the other receivers running downfield, which is where the tight ends up the seams come into play.