Find out the nuts and bolts of two of the NFL's more intricate coverage schemes.
Thus far in our discussion of the defensive secondary, we've kept things fairly up-front. The coverage shells we've talked about so far, Cover 0, Cover 1, Cover 2, and Cover 3, are all basically "What you see is what you get," with only the Tampa 2 really offering deceptiveness.
That isn't the case today. Today we look at a pair of coverage schemes that can flip from passive to aggressive in the blink of an eye, without giving anything away before the snap.