During the Washington Redskins vs. New York Giants game on Sunday there were a lot of questions/complaints about the Redskins soft coverage on the Giants receivers. Nobody had a good answer as to why they play so far back.
Nobody, that is, until John Keim, the best X’s and O’s man covering the Redskins, asked some people and wrote up an article about it.
That article, which appears here, breaks it down in easy to understand terms. It should be required reading for anyone who wants to complain about the defensive scheme.
I don’t want to go into too much about it here because you really should read the article, but there are advantages and disadvantages to playing off-man coverage as there are to playing press coverage.
If you’re playing off man, you can read th ...
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Article written by Rich Tandler
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