(Danny Medley-America Today Sports)
We’ve moved on decisively from the Legion of Boom era and single-high safety coverage as the NFL default. In the year In 2016, opposing defenses had 4,445 pass attempts in Cover-2, 2-Man, Cover-4 or Cover-6. In the year In 2022, there were 6,838 such pass attempts. It is 32.9% of pass attempts in 2016 and 36% of pass attempts in 2022. Defenses prefer to let things go underneath instead of forcing a safety to go to a single cap multiple times – and without adding various pressure concepts, blitzes, and all that press coverage, you’re starting to paint the ideal modern defensive design.
Quarterbacks were less effective overall in two-deep coverage in 2022, and no defense put opponents in a vise more often than the San Francisco 49ers, who allowed four touchdown passes and picked off 16 passes in coverage-2. , 2-person, cover-4, or cover-6. Even the great Patrick Mahomes found these covers very unappealing.
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