The technique there running is called bailing out. The corners comes down as if they are going to press then at the last second they bail out. What they are trying to do is disguise the coverage. Also bailing out its to show man then switch to zone which 9-10 times with No D is going to be quarters coverage and if you lbs are not showing blitz when the corners are up then it's not gone be effective and with the LBs covering the slots the middle will be wide open for slants and seem routes. What can be done is bringing in a nickel back and bringing the free safety down over the other slot, keep two lbs in the box, and have a safety over the top if your worrying about the run.
Again problem is team aren't going for the deep ball on us, they are throwing short intermediate routes. If that the case you need to press man and make the receivers earn those catches, but when your playing 10 yards off and the receivers are only running 5-10 yard routes your going to get torched. And if you DB's can't tackle, oh my your in for a long night. Take the VT vs OSU game last night, Bud Foster gave no ****s about OSU going deep. Freshmen Qb!? Oh we're not about to sit back and let him complete easy throws to build his confidence. His plan was your not going to nickel and dime us to death with short routes we going to get in those receivers face and get after them and it worked. Granted OSU completed some long td passes for tds, so what, VT had like 4 picks in the game. You play to win the game... That's a coach that does not coach passive and restrict his athletes. All he cares about is winning and if he gives us a td **** it, next play. Same thing when they played Bama, he didn't care about Mccarron and Cooper, he went toe to toe with Bama and gave them all they could handle.
