Irish
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Play man coverage and knock the QB on his ass. QBs like Cassel can read zones because they have been doing it since high school and especially college, but man to man is more difficult to read because you can't really make pre snap reads other than personnel.
Cassel was so poised yesterday because he could break the zone down before getting under center. They weren't doing any crazy Mad Mike/Air Coryell passing routes, just simple patterns that take advantage of basic zones.
If we line up man to man and Jenkins, Joyner, and Gaines get beat by better players, well, they were better players. But don't allow marginal back up quality QBs to beat you simply because you play to the only strength they have, which more often than not is zone recognition.
Cassel was so poised yesterday because he could break the zone down before getting under center. They weren't doing any crazy Mad Mike/Air Coryell passing routes, just simple patterns that take advantage of basic zones.
If we line up man to man and Jenkins, Joyner, and Gaines get beat by better players, well, they were better players. But don't allow marginal back up quality QBs to beat you simply because you play to the only strength they have, which more often than not is zone recognition.