poncho0091
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A lot of people complain about us playing zone over man and others complain about we suck in man. Here is a problem though, you have to play enough man to keep the offense guessing. If I see you play a zone defense 70% of the time, I'm going to run routes where 2 receivers cross into the same zone and make those my primary and secondary reads. Only one player is responsible for a zone and he will have to cover 1 receiver leaving the other guy open. This is one reason we get beat on the same plays over and over. They send receivers in areas for the sole purpose of clearing the area for another receiver to come in and make the play wide open.
For me this is another reason I hate about the way our scheme is run. We play so deep that there is no guy responsible for the short to mid range zone or if there is one, he is drawn to go in the deep part of that zone by the first receiver while receiver 2 is open in the short end of the zone. If they played closer we could have the safety pick up the guys that start going deeper so we can still cover the shallow throws. At that point though, we need better safeties to cover guys going deep.
For me this is another reason I hate about the way our scheme is run. We play so deep that there is no guy responsible for the short to mid range zone or if there is one, he is drawn to go in the deep part of that zone by the first receiver while receiver 2 is open in the short end of the zone. If they played closer we could have the safety pick up the guys that start going deeper so we can still cover the shallow throws. At that point though, we need better safeties to cover guys going deep.
