4-3 cover 2

[JerseyCanes]

Richt just said in an interview with the beat reporters that "when we were dominant we had guys like Wilfork - sapp - Jerome ... They were Dudes... We need to Recruit Dudes".

Yes yes yes

JC

 

[PSU Cane]

4-3 Cover 2 doesn't always translate well against the spread teams we have nowadays....too many holes.

Base Cover 2 leaves two WR uncovered in a traditional 4 wide set (1 WR in a 3 wide set). With the safety so far off the ball, it leaves bubble screens wide open for easy 5 yards, or much more. It also opens up the field if you run smash routes with 3 deep routes. It stretches the safeties hoizontally with 3 WR on 2 deep S, but also stretches the CB vertically if they run with the deep WR, opening up a huge gap for a simple curl or out. If you run cover 2, you need to rotate into a robber coverage at the snap with single high S in the middle and another safety over the slot with outside technique and inside help with the LB.

In base 4-3, cover 3 and cover 4 usually work a little better againt spread. You can run cover 2, but you need to disguise and rotate based on WR sets.

 

[FullyERicht]

4-3 Cover 2 doesn't always translate well against the spread teams we have nowadays....too many holes.

Base Cover 2 leaves two WR uncovered in a traditional 4 wide set (1 WR in a 3 wide set). With the safety so far off the ball, it leaves bubble screens wide open for easy 5 yards, or much more. It also opens up the field if you run smash routes with 3 deep routes. It stretches the safeties hoizontally with 3 WR on 2 deep S, but also stretches the CB vertically if they run with the deep WR, opening up a huge gap for a simple curl or out. If you run cover 2, you need to rotate into a robber coverage at the snap with single high S in the middle and another safety over the slot with outside technique and inside help with the LB.

In base 4-3, cover 3 and cover 4 usually work a little better againt spread. You can run cover 2, but you need to disguise and rotate based on WR sets.

Quarters is great for it, but the pseudo cover 2 "2-read/Blue/Sink/Palms" whatever you want to name it is awesome too. Spread teams want to spread you out and throw underneath.

 

[gfer1988]

4-3 Cover 2 doesn't always translate well against the spread teams we have nowadays....too many holes.

Base Cover 2 leaves two WR uncovered in a traditional 4 wide set (1 WR in a 3 wide set). With the safety so far off the ball, it leaves bubble screens wide open for easy 5 yards, or much more. It also opens up the field if you run smash routes with 3 deep routes. It stretches the safeties hoizontally with 3 WR on 2 deep S, but also stretches the CB vertically if they run with the deep WR, opening up a huge gap for a simple curl or out. If you run cover 2, you need to rotate into a robber coverage at the snap with single high S in the middle and another safety over the slot with outside technique and inside help with the LB.

In base 4-3, cover 3 and cover 4 usually work a little better againt spread. You can run cover 2, but you need to disguise and rotate based on WR sets.

just bc it's base 4-3 cover 2 doesn't mean you stay in that regardless of match up. that's what game planning is for.

 

[Cityboy4life]

I can only get so hard.

YES! Oh man, dunno if I can rub another one out here or not, might have to wait an hour.. gettin old here...

 

[OldhamA]

Richt just said on 560 that he likes the old Miami defenses 4-3 2 shell...

HE SAID THAT?
ARE YOU SURE?

Yup I heard him said he needs too see if we have beast to run it

Yea he mentioned not knowing whether or not we had the personnel for it but he would look and figure everything out..

Also mentioned he got tape from every recruit and the last 2 years of all of our games he has to go over.

He's going to puke.

 

[FullyERicht]

Hopefully he takes note of how out of shape and poorly conditioned we are.

 

[bxcanesbomber]

Richt just said on 560 that he likes the old Miami defenses 4-3 2 shell...

HE SAID THAT?
ARE YOU SURE?

Yup I heard him said he needs too see if we have beast to run it

Yea he mentioned not knowing whether or not we had the personnel for it but he would look and figure everything out..

Also mentioned he got tape from every recruit and the last 2 years of all of our games he has to go over.

He's going to puke.

I imagine him with the only puzzled face while viewing that **** tape

 

[JayyJr]

4-3 Cover 2 doesn't always translate well against the spread teams we have nowadays....too many holes.

Base Cover 2 leaves two WR uncovered in a traditional 4 wide set (1 WR in a 3 wide set). With the safety so far off the ball, it leaves bubble screens wide open for easy 5 yards, or much more. It also opens up the field if you run smash routes with 3 deep routes. It stretches the safeties hoizontally with 3 WR on 2 deep S, but also stretches the CB vertically if they run with the deep WR, opening up a huge gap for a simple curl or out. If you run cover 2, you need to rotate into a robber coverage at the snap with single high S in the middle and another safety over the slot with outside technique and inside help with the LB.

In base 4-3, cover 3 and cover 4 usually work a little better againt spread. You can run cover 2, but you need to disguise and rotate based on WR sets.

just bc it's base 4-3 cover 2 doesn't mean you stay in that regardless of match up. that's what game planning is for.

exactly, wouldn't be much of a defensive coordinator if you cant call defensive plays to rotate coverages out of your base D depending on the way the offense lines up..Main Problem D'noreo and Folden had

 

[deerob305]

If he has his defense already, he must have his coordinator picked..hmmmmmm

 

[Gatorhater]

Richt just said on 560 that he likes the old Miami defenses 4-3 2 shell...

HE SAID THAT?
ARE YOU SURE?

Yup I heard him said he needs too see if we have beast to run it

Yea he mentioned not knowing whether or not we had the personnel for it but he would look and figure everything out..

Also mentioned he got tape from every recruit and the last 2 years of all of our games he has to go over.

He's going to puke.

I think he is going to agree that the banners were right -- Al needed to go. I'm guessing the first 2 and goal from the 1 with lbs 5 yards deep in the end zone will make the decision on No D easy.

 

[Gransapo]

How much do we have to donate to be in the room when Richt tells Doritos to go **** himself?

 

[PSU Cane]

4-3 Cover 2 doesn't always translate well against the spread teams we have nowadays....too many holes.

Base Cover 2 leaves two WR uncovered in a traditional 4 wide set (1 WR in a 3 wide set). With the safety so far off the ball, it leaves bubble screens wide open for easy 5 yards, or much more. It also opens up the field if you run smash routes with 3 deep routes. It stretches the safeties hoizontally with 3 WR on 2 deep S, but also stretches the CB vertically if they run with the deep WR, opening up a huge gap for a simple curl or out. If you run cover 2, you need to rotate into a robber coverage at the snap with single high S in the middle and another safety over the slot with outside technique and inside help with the LB.

In base 4-3, cover 3 and cover 4 usually work a little better againt spread. You can run cover 2, but you need to disguise and rotate based on WR sets.

just bc it's base 4-3 cover 2 doesn't mean you stay in that regardless of match up. that's what game planning is for.

Exactly. But that's what many of the old school Canes defenses did. It worked then against pro-style but would need major tweaking to work now against spread and mutliples. It wouldn't look like a 4-3 Cover 2 shell many are picturing. Well, i guess it could but then we will all be screaming about safeties playing 12 yards off the ball against bubble screens and asking wtf?!

 

[RiDLer80]

4-3 Cover 2 doesn't always translate well against the spread teams we have nowadays....too many holes.

Base Cover 2 leaves two WR uncovered in a traditional 4 wide set (1 WR in a 3 wide set). With the safety so far off the ball, it leaves bubble screens wide open for easy 5 yards, or much more. It also opens up the field if you run smash routes with 3 deep routes. It stretches the safeties hoizontally with 3 WR on 2 deep S, but also stretches the CB vertically if they run with the deep WR, opening up a huge gap for a simple curl or out. If you run cover 2, you need to rotate into a robber coverage at the snap with single high S in the middle and another safety over the slot with outside technique and inside help with the LB.

In base 4-3, cover 3 and cover 4 usually work a little better againt spread. You can run cover 2, but you need to disguise and rotate based on WR sets.

just bc it's base 4-3 cover 2 doesn't mean you stay in that regardless of match up. that's what game planning is for.

Exactly. There's this thing called sub packages. And Golden didn't exactly use them well. A lot of times we'd stay in our base 3-4 against 3 and 4 WR sets and would have our OLBs dropping into coverage trying to cover slot receivers. It's not all about alignment, but how you scheme and adjust in game.

 

[JayyJr]

John Chavis runs a base 4-3 over, works pretty good.. uses a lotta of disguised looks to confuse spread offenses... Heres an article I read a while back.. good read How LSU builds defenses that shut down spread offenses - SBNation.com

 

[Dynasty]

4-3 Cover 2 doesn't always translate well against the spread teams we have nowadays....too many holes.

Base Cover 2 leaves two WR uncovered in a traditional 4 wide set (1 WR in a 3 wide set). With the safety so far off the ball, it leaves bubble screens wide open for easy 5 yards, or much more. It also opens up the field if you run smash routes with 3 deep routes. It stretches the safeties hoizontally with 3 WR on 2 deep S, but also stretches the CB vertically if they run with the deep WR, opening up a huge gap for a simple curl or out. If you run cover 2, you need to rotate into a robber coverage at the snap with single high S in the middle and another safety over the slot with outside technique and inside help with the LB.

In base 4-3, cover 3 and cover 4 usually work a little better againt spread. You can run cover 2, but you need to disguise and rotate based on WR sets.

Quarters is great for it, but the pseudo cover 2 "2-read/Blue/Sink/Palms" whatever you want to name it is awesome too. Spread teams want to spread you out and throw underneath.

This. Read-2, with cover-2 being the "trap" coverage. Regardless of which zone coverage one chooses, at the end of the day, you gotta be able to play man coverage. For my money, and I'm not a big single high person, but, there's nothing better than aligning in quarters and rotating to man-1 variations. Absolutely love the leverage it provides.