In Week 7 against the Arizona Cardinals, New York Giants quarterback Daniel Jones dropped back to pass on third and 13 from his own 35-yard line. Faced with a four-man rush and seven defenders in ...

The Las Vegas Raiders wide receiver Davante Adams can expose just about any opposing defensive game plan. There's simply no set answer as to how to contain him. Adams adjusts to whatever is thrown at ...

When the Eagles face the Dallas Cowboys for the second time this season on Sunday, they’ll face a team that plays the seventh-highest rate of zone coverage, according to Sharp Football Analysis. The ...

Much was said about the glory of man coverage of defense when Rex Ryan was the head coach of the New York Jets. Years later, Robert Saleh took over as the head coach of the New York Jets and suddenly ...

For all of Jalen Hurts' early NFL success, one issue continues to follow him: his production against zone coverage. ESPN published a scathing article calling out the quarterback for "pushing back on ...

Sure, man-to-man shutdown corners are flashy, but you have to be effective in zone coverage to make it in the modern NFL. After all, most teams play zone more than half the time. The best zone corners ...

Today I want to take a few minutes to look at an example of exactly why my colleagues (Jake, Sobo and Jared have all spoken on this topic) and I disdain spot/landmark drops in a zone defense. Most ...

Detroit Lions wide receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown has rounded into one of the best wide receivers in the NFL after being selected in the fourth round of the NFL Draft four years ago. St. Brown is now a ...

Cooper Kupp has cemented himself as one of the elite wide receivers in the NFL and he was still dominant in 2022 for the Los Angeles Rams. Despite missing eight games due to an ankle injury, Kupp ...

Football pass coverages sometimes are convoluted and other times are misunderstood. And most of the time they’re more nuanced than we need to care about. In our last installment, we looked at the ...