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Ohio State Football: How Matt Patricia Mixes Looks In Cover 2 · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm very happy to be part of the team.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, if you have been a member with us before,
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  Speaker 1: you probably know Michael's name and know that he does it,
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  Speaker 1: really does know what he's talking about on a lot
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  Speaker 1: of this stuff and has been a very active part
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  Speaker 1: of the board and we're looking forward to having him
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  Speaker 1: on our board at Buckeye Insiders as well. Today's show,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna be talking about diversifying the defense within certain coverage.
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  Speaker 1: So basically, you're tweaking concepts to provide different and ideally
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  Speaker 1: confusing looks for the opposing team with it without really
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  Speaker 1: changing the structure of the back end of your defense.
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  Speaker 1: So today we're we're talking about cover two. This is
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  Speaker 1: something that would work in you know, you want to
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  Speaker 1: runcover one, you want to uncover three, whatever you want
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  Speaker 1: to do, the same basic principle works. We're talking cover
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  Speaker 1: two today. So I guess, Michael, let's start with just
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  Speaker 1: the basics of cover two. What does that look like?
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  Speaker 1: because we'll have some video there to sort of illustrate
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  Speaker 1: what Michael's talking about.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so essentially cover two is just a zone coverage
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  Speaker 2: five underneath defenders with two deep defenders covering the deep
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  Speaker 2: halves of the field. And yeah, what Tom said is
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  Speaker 2: exactly right. If you want to look at things in
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  Speaker 2: a vacuum and just look at how often a team
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  Speaker 2: runs cover three, cover two, cover one, et cetera. That's
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  Speaker 2: one way to do it, But there are also a
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  Speaker 2: lot of different ways to run each of these coverages. So,
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  Speaker 2: for example, a team like Indiana, they ran a ton
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  Speaker 2: of Cover three, but they ran a bunch of different
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  Speaker 2: styles of Cover three. So again, if you want to
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  Speaker 2: look at it in a vacuum, you can say that
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  Speaker 2: Indiana just ran Cover three fifty percent of the time,
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  Speaker 2: which is a lot, But because of all the different
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  Speaker 2: rotations they used to get to Cover three, it was
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  Speaker 2: actually a pretty diverse scheme. And today, you know Matt
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  Speaker 2: Patricia with Ohio State, he runs Cover two quite a bit,
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  Speaker 2: and he runs it in a few different styles. So
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  Speaker 2: I just kind of want to illustrate how I'm using
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  Speaker 2: different rotations of the same coverage can be arguably just
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  Speaker 2: as diverse as running a bunch of different types of coverage.
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  Speaker 1: All right, So just give us a quick illustration of
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  Speaker 1: the basic cover two here.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so basic cover two you're going to have. It's
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  Speaker 2: just a spot drop zone, no fancy rotations or disguises.
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  Speaker 2: The two corners in a basic cover two are generally
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  Speaker 2: responsible for the flats on their respective sides of the field,
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  Speaker 2: and then the two deep safeties going to be responsible
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  Speaker 2: for the two deep halves of the field. And in
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  Speaker 2: this first clip here you'll have the Mike linebacker who
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  Speaker 2: is stunny styles. In this case, he's kind of that
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  Speaker 2: middle hook or high hole player if you want to
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  Speaker 2: turn it into more of a Tampa two style. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: this is just an example of a very elementary basic
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  Speaker 2: Cover two.
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  Speaker 1: All right. And you may have heard Ross at points
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  Speaker 1: talk about middle open, middle closed on these shows. Cover
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  Speaker 1: two would be a middle open defense where you don't
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  Speaker 1: have a safety right in the middle of the field.
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  Speaker 1: You got guys kind of maybe on the hashes, maybe
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  Speaker 1: somewhere else. But that's another term that you've probably heard
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  Speaker 1: at some point. So when we talk about middle open,
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  Speaker 1: middle closed, this would be a middle open defense. Let's
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  Speaker 1: talk about the first variation now, and this is gonna
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  Speaker 1: be a little tricky. We have two different things that
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  Speaker 1: sound very similar. The first one is two whole. How
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  Speaker 1: does this change what you're looking at as the opposing quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So two hole is a style of what's known
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  Speaker 2: as a non traditional Tampa style of Cover two rotation.
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  Speaker 2: So again, with two hole, both of the corners are
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  Speaker 2: responsible for the flats to their sides of the field.
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  Speaker 2: What makes this different though, is that the defense, actually
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  Speaker 2: you'll see starts out in a single high shell, so
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  Speaker 2: you have the free safety Caleb downs kind of in
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  Speaker 2: the middle of the field. The defense based on this
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  Speaker 2: look should really indicate Cover one or Cover three if
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  Speaker 2: you're a quarterback. But when the ball is snapped, you
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  Speaker 2: see the nickel Lorenzo styles quickly bail to the deep
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  Speaker 2: half of the field, with the boundary safety Jalen McClain
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  Speaker 2: bailing to the other deep half of the field. And
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  Speaker 2: once they do that, Caleb downs the deep safety. He
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  Speaker 2: kind of sinks in a little bit and becomes that
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  Speaker 2: high hole pole runner player. So again this is a
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  Speaker 2: little more of an exotic rotation because a typical Cover
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  Speaker 2: two you're not going to have the nickel who's you know,
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  Speaker 2: about six yards off the ball bailing all the way
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  Speaker 2: to the deep half of the field. And again the
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  Speaker 2: pre snap alignment would tend to indicate probably either Cover
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  Speaker 2: wine or Cover three.
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  Speaker 1: And then the next one is too roll. So the
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  Speaker 1: last one was too whole. This is too roll. So
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  Speaker 1: how is this one different from than the last one?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So this last style of Cover two we'll talk
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  Speaker 2: about today. This is probably the most exotic rotation of
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  Speaker 2: them all, I'd say once again, here you can see
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  Speaker 2: you have a single high safety in the deep middle
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  Speaker 2: of the field, single high shell. Again, that should indicate
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  Speaker 2: either Cover wine or Cover three. But what makes this
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  Speaker 2: Cover two rotations so unique is one of the corners
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  Speaker 2: is actually going to roll to the deep half of
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  Speaker 2: the field instead of being responsible for one of the flats.
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  Speaker 2: So here you see the corner to the bottom of
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  Speaker 2: the screen roll back to the deep half of the field,
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  Speaker 2: while the deep safety in the middle of the field
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  Speaker 2: ends up rolling to the other deep half of the
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  Speaker 2: field and replacing the corner in the flat. You're going
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  Speaker 2: to have Lorenzo styles the nickel who's gonna rotate over
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  Speaker 2: the flat here? And yeah, so it's a little bit
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  Speaker 2: more of a unique Cover two style because you're not
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  Speaker 2: just having both of the corners sit into the flats,
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  Speaker 2: you're actually rotating one of them back to the deep
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  Speaker 2: half of the field.
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  Speaker 1: So the last two things where we talked about describe
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  Speaker 1: disguise and coverage as you went from Cover one and
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  Speaker 1: or Cover three kind of looks to a Cover two look.
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  Speaker 1: Now that goes back to what I was saying earlier
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  Speaker 1: about middle, open, middle closed, can you explain why that really?
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  Speaker 2: You know it?
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  Speaker 1: I think it would be easy to say, well, Cover two,
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  Speaker 1: that must be very similar to Cover one or very
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  Speaker 1: similar to Cover three, is right in between those two.
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  Speaker 1: Why does that make a difference to what the quarter
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  Speaker 1: what the picture looks like for the quarterback. That's one
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  Speaker 1: of those phrases we talk about a lot on these shows,
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  Speaker 1: changing the picture for the quarterback after the snap. Why
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  Speaker 1: does going from a Cover one or a middle closed
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  Speaker 1: defense to a Cover two or middle open defense, why
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  Speaker 1: does that really mess with what the opposing quarterback is seeing?
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  Speaker 2: Well in the court, when opposing quarterbacks see a middle
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  Speaker 2: of the field open defense like Cover two, generally that's
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  Speaker 2: going to indicate that you know, a post route splitting
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  Speaker 2: those two safeties might be open. And it also might
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  Speaker 2: indicate that you know, any routes or quick routes out
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  Speaker 2: to the flat are not going to be as effective.
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  Speaker 2: Whereas Cover one, first of all, is generally speaking a
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  Speaker 2: man coverage, so off the bat, that's different because you
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  Speaker 2: have players defenders are actually in man to man coverage
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  Speaker 2: on the receivers. Cover two is a zone, but even
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  Speaker 2: Cover three, which is a single, high, middle of the
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  Speaker 2: field closed version of a zone coverage. If the quarterback
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  Speaker 2: reads that pre snap, he's going to be thinking about,
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  Speaker 2: you know, which receivers are going to be open. But
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  Speaker 2: if all of a sudden the defense rotates and roles
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  Speaker 2: to Cover two post snap, then you know, the what
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  Speaker 2: he was thinking about pre snap might not necessarily be there.
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  Speaker 1: And you mentioned there are other looks here beyond just
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  Speaker 1: these two. These are sort of two examples. I would
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  Speaker 1: imagine you could kind of mix and match what you're
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  Speaker 1: doing with your front to maybe even mix, you know,
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  Speaker 1: change up some of these what the overall defensive look
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  Speaker 1: you know, to change with these same basic secondary looks,
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  Speaker 1: these same same back end looks, and then you know
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  Speaker 1: other there are presumably other coverage schemes, other variations of
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  Speaker 1: Cover two that they could they could roll out as well.
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  Speaker 1: We're just you know, we're just sort of illustrating a
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  Speaker 1: small slice of what is possible here.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, of course, I mean you can run simulated pressures
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  Speaker 2: or creepers with that are paired with Cover two, So
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  Speaker 2: you know, simulated pressure or a creeper. I'm sure people
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  Speaker 2: have heard Ross talk about it. It's essentially when you
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  Speaker 2: are bringing a back back seven defender as an extra rusher,
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  Speaker 2: but in exchange, you're dropping a defensive end into coverage,
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  Speaker 2: so it's still a four man rush. But yeah, you
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  Speaker 2: can run Cover two with that, or you can run
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  Speaker 2: a two steel blitz. Again, that's something that both Jim
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  Speaker 2: Knowles and Matt Patricia ran quite a bit. Yeah, so
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  Speaker 2: there are plenty of different ways you can get to
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  Speaker 2: two beyond just the ones we discussed today.
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  Speaker 1: All Right, there you go, So a quick look at
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  Speaker 1: Cover two and some of the different variations. We'll probably
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  Speaker 1: do another show on this, and we'll probably do another
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