Last post, I went over Coach Nick Saban’s 3 deep pattern match zone concepts: rip/liz and 3 mable. I thought it would be a good post because those coverages have made their way into the NFL and are used a lot today. So, I thought I’d continue this series by going into Saban’s cover 1 defense, because he uses some very unique rules and leverages in his cover 1 pass coverage that are also utilized a lot in the NFL today.
The Patriots under head coach and former Saban boss Bill Belichick, for example, run a lot of cover 1 that is similar to Saban’s cover 1.