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I know it's 11 not 5 but when you have a player like PP, and the opponent has a guy like Thomas who's the target of so many plays, how come you never see NFL teams play a version of the box and 1 like basketball? NFL teams do zone blitzes, they do all sorts of combination coverages but I can't recall ever seeing or hearing an announcer say that a team was playing 1 player man to man and the rest of the defense is in zone?
I can see it might be somewhat confusing but teams so play 5 or more DB's regularly now anyways so you can still have 2 CB's and 2 safeties or 1 and 3, and just have PP shadowing Thomas all over the field.
Probably not something you do the whole game but break out in certain situations to surprise the QB?
I can see it might be somewhat confusing but teams so play 5 or more DB's regularly now anyways so you can still have 2 CB's and 2 safeties or 1 and 3, and just have PP shadowing Thomas all over the field.
Probably not something you do the whole game but break out in certain situations to surprise the QB?