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How exactly is your defensive scheme going to work?

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I'm more curious about your defense then anything on the team as I'm already sold on your halfbacks and Smith on offense.

Wondering what type of scheme you guys are running on defense this year and what each position on defense is slated to do.

Like I heard it was a Tampa 2 scheme with man to man coverage with your corners?... Not sure exactly how thats going to work out but who is doing what on your defense this year (I don't need the names of the talent as I know most of your defense)... just wondering what the DT, DE, LBs, Secondary do for the most part and how often you guys blitz and what not...

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Well, Meeks has been mum on what he says about it, but we do know that the scheme we're going to run is going to depend on mainly pressure from the front 4, keeping the linebackers in tight zone to recover in case of a run, but I do imagine since we are talking about a Fox team here, you'll still see a lot of 4-3 mixed into it with linebackers still blitzing every now and then. That's pretty much all I can say, if I told you anymore I'd have to kill you.

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lol alright.. just wondered how playing man to man coverage with your corners and playing a zone with the rest of your defense, how it was going to translate. Anymore info would be nice.

I haven't read that anywhere. Link?

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hadn't heard really anything about man coverage but from what i can tell is that it is going to be a hybrid of a few things.

pretty much, though, the bulk of the pressure on the QB is going to come from the front four. the secondary is going to be using a very aggressive zone focused on breaking up routes and attacking where the ball goes either disrupting the passes or aggressively hitting and stripping the ball. they are going to have to be quicker and much more aware of what is going on than before. the LBs will be covering the middle of the field controlling the run and helping out with coverage.

nothing earth shatteringly different in the concept but in the way it is going to be carried out and the attention to detail compared to what we have had before will be very different. the aggressiveness will also be a pretty big difference from what i can tell.

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lol alright.. just wondered how playing man to man coverage with your corners and playing a zone with the rest of your defense, how it was going to translate. Anymore info would be nice.

is cover 2 man really that hard to understand?

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I doubt we play a lot of man coverage this year. We don't really have what you would call shut down corners and in man coverage it is vulnerable to the run. Plus if you put the corners in man coverage on the wideouts, you still have to have the linebackers play a short zone to account for extra receivers going to the hole vacated when the corner is taken deep, halfbacks and fullbacks are coming out of the backfield, etc. I wouldn't be surprised if we put man coverage on the slot receiver when we go to the nickel or if we decide to play man specifically on a player like a Fitzgerald, or Randy Moss, TO, etc.

But overall we have largely run a zone scheme for the time that Fox has been here and that is what Meeks does the best. So I figure we will run a cover 2 zone under with a few wrinkles and changes to mix things up each week.

But then again, what do I know?????

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