good fox sports article on cover 2

[carpanfan96]

Panthers MLB Jon Beason wrote in his personal blog today that he had shoulder surgery on Feb. 12 to repair a torn labrum. He said he initially suffered the injury in October against Arizona, and played through the rest of the season.

Makes his Pro Bowl season that much more remarkable, that he did it one-armed for half the year. He wrote that "when I tackled someone it was almost like throwing a pillow at them.

Beason said he'd "absolutely" be ready for training camp and the first exhibition game. He's going to need the mental reps too, because the Panthers are shifting to a variation of the "Tampa 2" defense which will put increased burdens on him.

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[Seamonk]

Players define a scheme. Both the colts and tampa bay ran a tampa 2 style defense but they were both different. Our variation of tampa 2 or cover 2 will be different than the others, so even though there are generalizations about how the weakness and strengths of the tampa 2 and the cover 2, we still have players on the line and linebackers that are capable of stopping the run.

[carpanfan96]

Also we weren't that good against the run last year anyways.

[Cardiac Cats86]

with our LB core I think(hope) we should fare preety well. That being said our run game tore apart possibly one of the best Cover 2 D's in the Game last yr. vs. the Bucs. But we have preety good speed on the D so hopefully itll balance out.

[panthers55]

I would be happy with a cover 2 or Tampa 2 or even a cover 3 if we are aggressive. Zone coverage played like Tampa has over the last several years, would be fine as long as we can pressure the opponent with our front four.

But to play a soft zone like we did too often last year was just dying by degrees. We were so transparent, lining up the same way most of the time allowing the offense to dictate matchups. Playing off the receiver in third and short, failing to respond to zone overloads, cluster sets, hi-lo stretches.

If Meeks is playing to our strengths I hope he allows our guys to play a physical style which should suit our secondary.

[ChucktownK]

'"Good fox sports article"

Not likely, I'm sure they copied and pasted from a RELIABLE source. That or a coach came in and wrote it.

[Snake]

cover 2, tampa 2, 2x2, or whatever 2

it masks a weak pass rush.

with the personnel that the panthers have right now, the line can focus on the run, while the secondary can contain the pass..and even buy time for the line to rush the passer.

hello johnson and taylor. this is just what the doctor ordered.

Not really so. In the cover 2 and Tampa 2 you need a good pass rush from your line. Really it masks a poor CB unit. You can have slower CBs because they dont have to play man to man. Like we had in 03. I really doubt we will run a base cover 2 or Tampa 2 if we dont think we can get a good pass rush.