A glance at how Kurt Coleman contributes to Carolina's defensive renaissance

[Khaki Lackey]

PhillyB's threads make me wish I could read big werds and stuff.

PhillyB is now the Greg Cosell of the huddle. Everyone who read the OP just got smarter. Boom. That just happened. Now if we could just get PU and Bwood to read it a couple hundred times....

[Mr. Scot]

I love these threads, man. I never played football and I'm not really the most in tune with how plays are designed and what defenses to do disguise coverage so I just eat these breakdowns up. Thanks again!

I've been playing, watching, studying or coaching football for over 40 years.

I appreciate these threads too.

[ACobra289]

My main takeaway from this is how bad it would suck to get attacked by a big cat.

Nice job though. :)

[KSpan]

Great post, and the Jedi mind tricks only compound when teams realize that the FS (Coleman) is near the line while Roman "Lead Feet" Harper is being trusted with the deep coverage.  Carolina looks like the guy who is so out of place that they must know something the rest of the world doesn't.

Edited October 8, 2015 by KSpan

[SCP]

Another bases clearing home run by PhllyB.  

[luke nukem]

lol at the middle finger in the Josh Norman TD GIF.

[PhillyB]

Great post, and the Jedi mind tricks only compound when teams realize that the FS (Coleman) is near the line while Roman "Lead Feet" Harper is being trusted with the deep coverage.  Carolina looks like the guy who is so out of place that they must know something the rest of the world doesn't.

yep, it's pretty scary. if winston had read it as zone he'd have spotted two guys open in the soft spots, murphy in particular as coleman ended up staying low to help out with evans on that slant.

great scheme and great execution... finally.

[KillerKat]

I just wish we would keep Harper off the field.

[stankowalski]

If Winston thought that was man coverage before the snap he is an idiot especially considering Coleman's drop back.

[PhillyB]

If Winston thought that was man coverage before the snap he is an idiot especially considering Coleman's drop back.

take the diagnosis with a grain of salt - it's almost impossible to know for absolute certainty exactly what the defensive playcall was, and what winston actually read. but if you watch the film he looks to the right the instant the ball is snapped, which leads me to believe his primary receiver was jackson and he was watching to see which of the three receivers clustered on that wing would break open.

if he did see coleman telegraph backwards before the snap (and he may have) he may have recognized it as zone coverage in that instant, but mistakenly assumed the DBs were playing deep quarters and not a cover 3, which looks to be the call based on harper's position.

either way he fuged up and making the quarterback do offensive calculus in split seconds is a great quality for a defense to have.

[L-TownCat]

See what happens when you use that big ol brain for good instead of evil Philly?

 

Great job man.

[CelibatePimp]

I don't know how this play says anything about Coleman. Any safety free or strong can drop and bail anytime out of the box to disguise coverage. Nothing to do with Coleman specifically. You're missing the main crux of this formation, which is the trap coverage set to Norman's side; offer Winston a safe throw to Myers then have Norman drive on the throw at the last minute. Essentially fake like you're rolling to a cover three and then drive on the ball in the flats. 

The key to this play is Norman Norman Norman and not Coleman as you posit. 

 

Not 100% but that looks like a cover three to me and even that is still zone defense. 

Edited October 8, 2015 by CelibatePimp

[PhillyB]

I don't know how this play says anything about Coleman. Any safety free or strong can drop and bail anytime out of the box to disguise coverage. Nothing to do with Coleman specifically. You're missing the main crux of this formation, which is the trap coverage set to Norman's side; offer Winston a safe throw to Myers then have Norman drive on the throw at the last minute. Essentially fake like you're rolling to a cover three and then drive on the ball in the flats. 

The key to this play is Norman Norman Norman and not Coleman as you posit. 

usually free safeties do not cover running backs and leave the strong safety high. a versatile free safety dropping down there signals the strong possibility that he's covering the back, which he's capable of, while also maintaining the ability to drop back. harper might not be as good at this because his recovery speed is a little slower. tre boston isn't good enough against the run to sell it convincingly. coleman is good at both, and that's why he's being put down there.

if you re-read the original post you'll see i already outlined the scheme as a cover three that winston - if he did recognize zone coverage - probably thought was deep quarters. instead norman squatted in the zone and jumped the out route to the TE.

coleman is by no means they key to this play, but how he's utilized in this play is a nice example of how disguising coverage can lead to increased effectiveness of play calls, and kurt coleman's versatility allows him to be utilized effectively in disguises.

[Fright]

Another great write up... almost makes me want to like your book FB page...