Because the safeties are supposed to keep on top of the receivers, inside their respective zone. The safeties are going to take away outside routes, and the corners are pushing the receivers outside to the safeties. The fade works because not only is the receiver going up over the corner, but they are going out away from the approaching safety as well, depending on where the ball is spot laterally on the field (hashes or in the middle).
It takes away the middle because any vertical/skinny post etc. is taken away by the safeties. I think I've explained this. Our defensive linemen cover when they read screen. Aside from that we might drop a backside end or have him cover a throw back, which incidentally is another play that can get us.
We run a cover 2 designed to take away the middle of the field. All our DB's read #2, if he runs a seam the corner locks on #1 and the Safety takes the seam. If #2 runs an out, corner jumps it and the safety takes deep half vs. #1.
Exactly! The two safeties have deep halves, and the "5 under " are straight man on all possible receivers. The fun starts if a receiver is in the backfield, or at tight end. Then you can get creative with their assignments (blitze, etc.)
Well, that's my point. If the corners jam the outside receivers IN, they won't be able to force the safeties to cover the sidelines as much. In other words, keep all receivers more or less INSIDE, so the safeties don't leave a huge space between their zones.
wr1-fade = corner te-skinny post = strong safety rb-flare = strong side backer, hook curl to flat. The skinny post would not be wide open because both the corner and safety are reading the TE. If he goes deep they both do, unless the wide out runs a hitch, then the corner breaks on it. It would not be impossible because he six yards off and trained to do it. We do it every day, in fact we did it today about 20 times.
I didn't describe two defenses. I just described how we run cover 2. Yep, he reads #2 (the inside reciever). If #2 runs a seam, he goes with the #1(outside guy) if . They can do and have done it, for three years now with great success. I'm sorry if you don't get it, but alot of people run cover two like that.
4 WRs would constitute a personal change on the defense adding more DBs on the field, but they could definitely still run a cover 2 (man or zone). Miami ran a 4-3 cover 2 man 99% of the time during their last run at the beginning of the decade. Not my favorite defense but it has been done with success in the past. Their philosophy was to match up skill players with skill players man-to-man. They were confident that their DBs were going to be better athletes than their opponents WRs.
unmentioned weakness is a wheel route out of the backfield...you have a linebacker on a back in VERY open space so long as you have the receiver vacate that zone....
It's "almost impossible" if you're playing straight man . But here you have help from the Cover 2 safties. I tell the "man under" guys to jam all receivers aggressively, and keep them 6-8 yards from the LOS as long as possible. Every receiver looks "covered " to the QB. When a receiver finally "escapes " deep, the free safties will pick them up.
I think I understand, so in the case you have your whole defense playing Cover 2 man, and tell your corners to bump inwards, you are pushing the receivers into the crossing routes, which is the weakness of Cover 2 man because the safeties play the deep routes not the underneath ones.
I think on that particular play they had him jamming the guy, which is hard to do in highschool, we don't do that. Nevertheless he got back to where he needed to be. Again, the corner reads the number 2 (inside receiver). If both recivers go deep, so does the corner. You think they sound bad because you're behind the times and you guys run an old fashioned cover 2.
The cover 2 man is also vulnerable to a QB that can run. If it's third and six and you are playing against Micheal Vick, and you call Cover 2 man. All Vick needs is an opening on the D- line and he will pick up an easy 15 yards with his feet. You could spy him, though a spy is more effective in a cover one. The good news is this sort of defense is usually called against a pocket passer.
@FantasticF00tballer Correct. The Bears run very little Tampa 2 nowadays. However, that didn't REALLY start until the last few years. During the 05 and 06 run, they still ran a lot of Tampa 2. It was a slow but sure process. Now they run majority cover one. At least that's the way it looks to me.
You have to have a pretty athletic Strong side lb to run this defense, because he has to lock down a tight end and be able to set the edge against the run. Tight ends are getting more and more athletic while also retaining a pretty good size. They're turning into really big wide receivers.
In cover 2 man the two safeties have deep halves while the corners and all the linebackers are playing man to man coverage. Exactly what was explained in the video. In the tampa 2 the safeties still have deep halves. The corners are now responsible for the flats. Your outside linebackers now have hook to curl. And the middle backer is responsible for the middle deep hole. So if you have a stud mike linebacker it is almost(but not quite) a type of cover 3. So no, this is not a tampa 2.
You can sorta make it out here "Giambona's 2008 Goldenwest College Highlight Video" Plenty of four verts in this. Looks a little slow, but I think its just the film.
Our cover 2 takes away the middle of the field, that's just the way it goes.....I never said it didn't have weaknesses, but I didn't mention them. The main weakness is draw and screen and we have to cover that with our d-linemen.
That's what makes the Patriots' duo of Rob Gronkowski and Aaron Hernandez so tough to cover. They'll outrun all but the fastest linebackers, yet they're big enough to fight off corners and safeties for the ball. And if Brady so chooses he's got Wes Welker underneath in a crossing pattern in the area the LB vacated. A defensive coordinator's nightmare!
I think the weakness of a two-deep zone is the fade, or sideline streak routes. The free safeties can't get there. Why not have the corners take away the OUTSIDE routes be taking outside shades?
A nickel defense is the best type of defense to run in 90 percent of the time, a nickel gives you the benefit of having the extra DB on the field for better coverage situations, and every effective against all type outside run plays by bring up the safety to the outside of your defensive ends, and playing a better man situation when you want bring pressure to a quarterback by 5 in coverage and 6 blitzing, or even having a 5 blitzing 5 in coverage and 1 over the top safety, a nickel defensive is the best type of defensive to run if you know to coach it correctly the same can be said for a 3-3-5 stacked defensive if it is coach and taught correctly
You're just trying to find any negative....like I said, it isn't impossible. Many team do it, not just mine. It's the way people are running cover two now. I'm in Orange County Ca. I'd say we have teams that throw the ball around here. In fact we went to the coverage out of neccesity to be able to deal with Sunset league teams that constanlty ran four verts with flares.
Um, I saw them run it in their spring game with my own two eyes. Also, UCLA runs the coverage, in fact, that's who we went to to learn it from after they beat SC with while running it in '06
@MightGiants1 One thing that I don't like about the Cover 2 scheme is that it leaves the middle open. Wouldn't it be more beneficial to have the middle backer drop into the middle and half the outside drop to hook/curl? I understand the man coverage underneath with the running back, but unless he flares out, is that a feasible solution?
gta440 that's a good point. I was thinking more of in a passer happy type offense. Even if you would have the guys drop you would still be able to make a play of the Dline doesn't over pursue and the backers come up. Ultimately guys will have to read the situation What solution would you have to not leaving a hole in the deep middle?
@think4everyone no its not, this is cover 2 man, tampa 2 is a zone coverage very different. In a tampa 2 the CB's play zone on the outside the safety;s play deep halves , the M backer plays middle zone & the outside backers play the seams. tony dungy when he used it had a great d line & only needed 4 to rush the passer making it very difficult. Crossing routes R less effective on a tampa 2 than a cover 2 man defense. the tampa 2 if U have protection can get beat deep it will be 1v1 on a saftey
our cover 2 takes that stuff away...it has to because we always run it against any single back set. Generally we pick or swat 90% of the stuff thrown deep middle. I would say the soft spots are outs by #3 in trips if we have a sklow outside linebacker. Also you can get us with hitches by number 1 if our corners aint good, but usually the corners ar the best players on the team.
our corners, even our JV ones, have been able to make that read for three years. We played it against fucking La Habra and it worked just fine. The flare for a TD? We don't just stand there and watch the guy run. We do actually close on the ball. Besides......our linebacker picks it up.
We run it against single back so people can't run four verticals on us. It takes all of that away. In your scheme you gave Strong safety takes #1 over the top strong side backer and middle handle your hitch. Flare is handled by the corner. Wide reciever would not pull the corner because he is reading #2. If my corner sees a TE do a hitch he forgets about #1 and stays in the flat Where you gonna throw?
If I'm not mistaking, Chicago and Baltimore both run a Tampa 2. Am I right? Chicago's defense, so far, is REALLY impressive! They lead the league in creating turnovers. And of course, Baltimore's defense is always good!
@FantasticF00tballer Which completely explains why Vick is constantly dominated by the Chicago Bears. LOL, sorry I had to. If you have an athletic front seven (like the Bears do), you're going to give problems to a running QB. No matter what defensive scheme you run. The Bears have been doing it for a while now.
Come to think of it, that's my DB coach getting beat and it's because he gets caught flat footed....he recovers very nicely though and besides...like you've never made a mistake playing football?
further, we weren't the only team who ran cover two this way in the CIF finals and state championships. Not to mention all the college and pro teams that run it this way now. Honestly, when was the last time you sat down with some college coaches, ala Pete Carrol or Jim Heackock (ohio state DC) and watched a shitload of film. They'll let you in if you show up in the spring. Just try it. I think you are probably behind the times.
Junior college in New York? That explains alot. New York Football is pretty bad. If you came out to Cali, you'd learn to play cover 2 that way. He can do it because a: He is used to doing it b: He is looking at #2 Deep hook, the LB would sink......if you didn't keep your back in to block, deep curl will get sacked. It all works itself out. Plus yeah, we do give up short shit every now and then, but we rally to the ball and tackle.
Covering crossing routes is a "weakness"? Seems like that'd be a strength! If a WR runs a crossing route over the middle, he's going to have a LB sitting there waiting to blast him! Am I wrong? Maybe I'm thinking of the Tampa 2 defense, which is a little different than a regular cover 2 from what I've heard.
That's why it's all about route-combinations: If they are gonna run crossers they are probably also gonna want to clear the middle by releasing the half-back to the flat or wheel route, and/or send the TE on a deep over route.
The cb can tell if it's a pass when the fucking tight end runs a rout......the corner back has plenty of time, because it's instinctive. he does it abput fifty times a day. Deep curl takes time......good luck blocking our d-line. We're better coached up front than anybody else. I coach high school kids in Orange County Ca. The teams I have coached on have won 6 straight league titles and last year, running this coverage, we won a fucking State Chamopionship.
I was thinking of doing just that, but then I thought shit.....just get yourself Itunes, download some games and watch....most colleges run it that way. I certainly ain't putting film of my team up if that's what you want. That'd just be dumb.
@richig761 I said Cover Two with man underneath. The Bears are known for playing the Tampa-Two, Which is a Zone defense. Surprisingly the Bears play alot of Cover one, especially during their 2005-20006 run. Though an Athletic front 7 does better against a Vick like Quarterback, I will agree on that. In the end every defense has a design weakness, however with the right talent one can compensate.
You've never seen it taught that way because you're behind the times. Whole state of New York probably is as far as football is concerned.....Tejas, Cali, Ohio, Florida...we're on the cutting edge. It might seem dumb and unrealistic to you, but you're young and inesperianced etc. You have no idea how much you can make a person do if you teach it right.
Why is it a unlikely coverage, vs a run formation? whether it´s a 43 or 34 defense it is man, coverage always good against the run and short pass. not wasting safties because the threat of the pass in always there, whether on PA or bootlegs.
You think football is a video game where everything goes perfect. There's a mistake on every play.....if every coach was a great as you, then instead of the other couple of hundred times they ran the defense right and didnt fuck up, you still would have scored on every play.
No, I can't see how you have a great coaching staff. You think the normal way to play cover 2 is unsound. New york football sucks. Play a JC out here that runs the same coverage I'm talking about (most do) and see what happens to you. You'd get annihilated. The corners would be just fine and in fact they are. They just read #2. I don't know why I have to keep explaining this.
not what I said. We run cover two against single backs specifically to stop four verts. You're the one who made the mistakes. Forgive me, but you aren't the best at reading comprehension.
You play college football where? On Xbox. Dude, you have no idea what you are talking about. This is how most people are running cover two these days. I picked out my DB Coach specifically because he played this coverage in college. So they obviously ran it too. If it true, what you said about your coaches, then just ask them how people are running cover two now. USC runs it that way. You can't even number recievers correctly.
This coach is an excellent teacher. All his videos teach - there isn't a lot of fluff and you can learn a lot listening to him teach
Because the safeties are supposed to keep on top of the receivers, inside their respective zone. The safeties are going to take away outside routes, and the corners are pushing the receivers outside to the safeties. The fade works because not only is the receiver going up over the corner, but they are going out away from the approaching safety as well, depending on where the ball is spot laterally on the field (hashes or in the middle).
It takes away the middle because any vertical/skinny post etc. is taken away by the safeties. I think I've explained this.
Our defensive linemen cover when they read screen. Aside from that we might drop a backside end or have him cover a throw back, which incidentally is another play that can get us.
We run a cover 2 designed to take away the middle of the field. All our DB's read #2, if he runs a seam the corner locks on #1 and the Safety takes the seam. If #2 runs an out, corner jumps it and the safety takes deep half vs. #1.
Exactly! The two safeties have deep halves, and the "5 under " are straight man on all possible receivers. The fun starts if a receiver is in the backfield, or at tight end. Then you can get creative with their assignments (blitze, etc.)
Well, that's my point. If the corners jam the outside receivers IN, they won't be able to force the safeties to cover the sidelines as much. In other words, keep all receivers more or less INSIDE, so the safeties don't leave a huge space between their zones.
wr1-fade = corner
te-skinny post = strong safety
rb-flare = strong side backer, hook curl to flat.
The skinny post would not be wide open because both the corner and safety are reading the TE. If he goes deep they both do, unless the wide out runs a hitch, then the corner breaks on it.
It would not be impossible because he six yards off and trained to do it. We do it every day, in fact we did it today about 20 times.
I'm not a coach but I play a lot of Madden and this helps.
Paul Rael lol yup
I didn't describe two defenses. I just described how we run cover 2.
Yep, he reads #2 (the inside reciever). If #2 runs a seam, he goes with the #1(outside guy) if . They can do and have done it, for three years now with great success.
I'm sorry if you don't get it, but alot of people run cover two like that.
4 WRs would constitute a personal change on the defense adding more DBs on the field, but they could definitely still run a cover 2 (man or zone). Miami ran a 4-3 cover 2 man 99% of the time during their last run at the beginning of the decade. Not my favorite defense but it has been done with success in the past. Their philosophy was to match up skill players with skill players man-to-man. They were confident that their DBs were going to be better athletes than their opponents WRs.
unmentioned weakness is a wheel route out of the backfield...you have a linebacker on a back in VERY open space so long as you have the receiver vacate that zone....
And yes, we always put our best athletes at corner.
It's "almost impossible" if you're playing straight man . But here you have help from the Cover 2 safties. I tell the "man under" guys to jam all receivers aggressively, and keep them 6-8 yards from the LOS as long as possible. Every receiver looks "covered " to the QB. When a receiver finally "escapes " deep, the free safties will pick them up.
I think I understand, so in the case you have your whole defense playing Cover 2 man, and tell your corners to bump inwards, you are pushing the receivers into the crossing routes, which is the weakness of Cover 2 man because the safeties play the deep routes not the underneath ones.
I think on that particular play they had him jamming the guy, which is hard to do in highschool, we don't do that. Nevertheless he got back to where he needed to be.
Again, the corner reads the number 2 (inside receiver). If both recivers go deep, so does the corner.
You think they sound bad because you're behind the times and you guys run an old fashioned cover 2.
The cover 2 man is also vulnerable to a QB that can run. If it's third and six and you are playing against Micheal Vick, and you call Cover 2 man. All Vick needs is an opening on the D- line and he will pick up an easy 15 yards with his feet. You could spy him, though a spy is more effective in a cover one. The good news is this sort of defense is usually called against a pocket passer.
@FantasticF00tballer Correct. The Bears run very little Tampa 2 nowadays. However, that didn't REALLY start until the last few years. During the 05 and 06 run, they still ran a lot of Tampa 2. It was a slow but sure process. Now they run majority cover one. At least that's the way it looks to me.
You have to have a pretty athletic Strong side lb to run this defense, because he has to lock down a tight end and be able to set the edge against the run. Tight ends are getting more and more athletic while also retaining a pretty good size. They're turning into really big wide receivers.
In cover 2 man the two safeties have deep halves while the corners and all the linebackers are playing man to man coverage. Exactly what was explained in the video. In the tampa 2 the safeties still have deep halves. The corners are now responsible for the flats. Your outside linebackers now have hook to curl. And the middle backer is responsible for the middle deep hole. So if you have a stud mike linebacker it is almost(but not quite) a type of cover 3. So no, this is not a tampa 2.
You can sorta make it out here
"Giambona's 2008 Goldenwest College Highlight Video"
Plenty of four verts in this.
Looks a little slow, but I think its just the film.
where can i find other videos from this coach?
Our cover 2 takes away the middle of the field, that's just the way it goes.....I never said it didn't have weaknesses, but I didn't mention them. The main weakness is draw and screen and we have to cover that with our d-linemen.
That's what makes the Patriots' duo of Rob Gronkowski and Aaron Hernandez so tough to cover. They'll outrun all but the fastest linebackers, yet they're big enough to fight off corners and safeties for the ball. And if Brady so chooses he's got Wes Welker underneath in a crossing pattern in the area the LB vacated. A defensive coordinator's nightmare!
@think4everyone in a tampa 2 the mlb plays a "tad" bit deeper in the middle of the field but its virtually the same
shit, come to think of it, we've even run it on JV for three years and haven't had any problem's
I think the weakness of a two-deep zone is the fade, or sideline streak routes. The free safeties can't get there. Why not have the corners take away the OUTSIDE routes be taking outside shades?
Because slant routes
A nickel defense is the best type of defense to run in 90 percent of the time, a nickel gives you the benefit of having the extra DB on the field for better coverage situations, and every effective against all type outside run plays by bring up the safety to the outside of your defensive ends, and playing a better man situation when you want bring pressure to a quarterback by 5 in coverage and 6 blitzing, or even having a 5 blitzing 5 in coverage and 1 over the top safety, a nickel defensive is the best type of defensive to run if you know to coach it correctly the same can be said for a 3-3-5 stacked defensive if it is coach and taught correctly
Ali Ali no
When I coached we gave teams that were heavy cover2 man fits...
You're just trying to find any negative....like I said, it isn't impossible. Many team do it, not just mine. It's the way people are running cover two now. I'm in Orange County Ca. I'd say we have teams that throw the ball around here. In fact we went to the coverage out of neccesity to be able to deal with Sunset league teams that constanlty ran four verts with flares.
Last two years vick has put like 600 plus yards and 6 tds vs the Bears
Um, I saw them run it in their spring game with my own two eyes.
Also, UCLA runs the coverage, in fact, that's who we went to to learn it from after they beat SC with while running it in '06
@MightGiants1 One thing that I don't like about the Cover 2 scheme is that it leaves the middle open. Wouldn't it be more beneficial to have the middle backer drop into the middle and half the outside drop to hook/curl? I understand the man coverage underneath with the running back, but unless he flares out, is that a feasible solution?
gta440 that's a good point. I was thinking more of in a passer happy type offense. Even if you would have the guys drop you would still be able to make a play of the Dline doesn't over pursue and the backers come up. Ultimately guys will have to read the situation
What solution would you have to not leaving a hole in the deep middle?
@think4everyone no its not, this is cover 2 man, tampa 2 is a zone coverage very different. In a tampa 2 the CB's play zone on the outside the safety;s play deep halves , the M backer plays middle zone & the outside backers play the seams. tony dungy when he used it had a great d line & only needed 4 to rush the passer making it very difficult. Crossing routes R less effective on a tampa 2 than a cover 2 man defense. the tampa 2 if U have protection can get beat deep it will be 1v1 on a saftey
our cover 2 takes that stuff away...it has to because we always run it against any single back set. Generally we pick or swat 90% of the stuff thrown deep middle.
I would say the soft spots are outs by #3 in trips if we have a sklow outside linebacker. Also you can get us with hitches by number 1 if our corners aint good, but usually the corners ar the best players on the team.
our corners, even our JV ones, have been able to make that read for three years. We played it against fucking La Habra and it worked just fine.
The flare for a TD? We don't just stand there and watch the guy run. We do actually close on the ball. Besides......our linebacker picks it up.
@think4everyone this is not a Tampa 2... is a Cover 2 Man
We run it against single back so people can't run four verticals on us. It takes all of that away.
In your scheme you gave
Strong safety takes #1 over the top
strong side backer and middle handle your hitch.
Flare is handled by the corner. Wide reciever would not pull the corner because he is reading #2. If my corner sees a TE do a hitch he forgets about #1 and stays in the flat
Where you gonna throw?
actually, #30 on this tape is my DB coach.
If I'm not mistaking, Chicago and Baltimore both run a Tampa 2. Am I right? Chicago's defense, so far, is REALLY impressive! They lead the league in creating turnovers. And of course, Baltimore's defense is always good!
@FantasticF00tballer Which completely explains why Vick is constantly dominated by the Chicago Bears. LOL, sorry I had to. If you have an athletic front seven (like the Bears do), you're going to give problems to a running QB. No matter what defensive scheme you run. The Bears have been doing it for a while now.
This sounds like Monte Kiffin lol
Come to think of it, that's my DB coach getting beat and it's because he gets caught flat footed....he recovers very nicely though and besides...like you've never made a mistake playing football?
further, we weren't the only team who ran cover two this way in the CIF finals and state championships. Not to mention all the college and pro teams that run it this way now.
Honestly, when was the last time you sat down with some college coaches, ala Pete Carrol or Jim Heackock (ohio state DC) and watched a shitload of film. They'll let you in if you show up in the spring. Just try it.
I think you are probably behind the times.
4 Wide outs would kill a cover 2.
Junior college in New York? That explains alot. New York Football is pretty bad. If you came out to Cali, you'd learn to play cover 2 that way.
He can do it because
a: He is used to doing it
b: He is looking at #2
Deep hook, the LB would sink......if you didn't keep your back in to block, deep curl will get sacked. It all works itself out.
Plus yeah, we do give up short shit every now and then, but we rally to the ball and tackle.
Um, USC runs the same cover two we run....alot of others do too. I can't believe yours doesn't.
Try four games... 2001, 2005, 2010, 2011.
Covering crossing routes is a "weakness"? Seems like that'd be a strength! If a WR runs a crossing route over the middle, he's going to have a LB sitting there waiting to blast him! Am I wrong? Maybe I'm thinking of the Tampa 2 defense, which is a little different than a regular cover 2 from what I've heard.
That's why it's all about route-combinations: If they are gonna run crossers they are probably also gonna want to clear the middle by releasing the half-back to the flat or wheel route, and/or send the TE on a deep over route.
I don't really care if you think we would get killed running this defense because my shiny State Championship ring tells me I know more than you.
hold on, ill get you a link.
in 2 games
The cb can tell if it's a pass when the fucking tight end runs a rout......the corner back has plenty of time, because it's instinctive. he does it abput fifty times a day.
Deep curl takes time......good luck blocking our d-line. We're better coached up front than anybody else.
I coach high school kids in Orange County Ca. The teams I have coached on have won 6 straight league titles and last year, running this coverage, we won a fucking State Chamopionship.
I was thinking of doing just that, but then I thought shit.....just get yourself Itunes, download some games and watch....most colleges run it that way. I certainly ain't putting film of my team up if that's what you want. That'd just be dumb.
Nice verks
How do you defeat this type of defense? Answer: Run right through it.
Lol
@richig761
I said Cover Two with man underneath. The Bears are known for playing the Tampa-Two, Which is a Zone defense. Surprisingly the Bears play alot of Cover one, especially during their 2005-20006 run. Though an Athletic front 7 does better against a Vick like Quarterback, I will agree on that. In the end every defense has a design weakness, however with the right talent one can compensate.
You've never seen it taught that way because you're behind the times. Whole state of New York probably is as far as football is concerned.....Tejas, Cali, Ohio, Florida...we're on the cutting edge.
It might seem dumb and unrealistic to you, but you're young and inesperianced etc. You have no idea how much you can make a person do if you teach it right.
@popolodude
Says someone with a British flag. rofl
How's that "futbol" working for ya?
Why is it a unlikely coverage, vs a run formation? whether it´s a 43 or 34 defense it is man, coverage always good against the run and short pass. not wasting safties because the threat of the pass in always there, whether on PA or bootlegs.
You think football is a video game where everything goes perfect. There's a mistake on every play.....if every coach was a great as you, then instead of the other couple of hundred times they ran the defense right and didnt fuck up, you still would have scored on every play.
No, I can't see how you have a great coaching staff. You think the normal way to play cover 2 is unsound.
New york football sucks. Play a JC out here that runs the same coverage I'm talking about (most do) and see what happens to you. You'd get annihilated.
The corners would be just fine and in fact they are. They just read #2. I don't know why I have to keep explaining this.
not what I said.
We run cover two against single backs specifically to stop four verts. You're the one who made the mistakes. Forgive me, but you aren't the best at reading comprehension.
It seems like a bad idea, only because you don't know what you are talking about.....either that or you don't know what I'm talking about.
You play college football where? On Xbox. Dude, you have no idea what you are talking about. This is how most people are running cover two these days.
I picked out my DB Coach specifically because he played this coverage in college. So they obviously ran it too.
If it true, what you said about your coaches, then just ask them how people are running cover two now. USC runs it that way. You can't even number recievers correctly.