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Originally Posted by BigRedChief
We ran the ball too much. Getting Pacheco beat up in week 2 regardless of him eventually getting hurt. Luckily he'll be back for the playoffs.
We are not a run the ball team. I don't know what Andy was trying to prove but he's a HOF coach and the best in the NFL so he gets the benefit of doubt but it was a head scratcher.
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That was their gameplan and why not?
Cover 2 literally gets an extra defender deep. It begs offenses to run the ball and that’s why Andy did it. Lou knows that Andy and Patrick don’t want to do that.
Cut off the deep pass and force the offense to have more opportunities for a a mistake via penalty or turnover. And it worked beautifully.
If the defense is dropping 7 players 10-30 yards deep then naturally the running lanes up front and flat will be open.dropping 8 on obvious passing downs makes this even harder bc it’s basically 8 defenders vs 4 receivers.
The question is what do offenses do to beat that defense?