http://espn.go.com/nfl/clubhouse?team=mia Click on the newest video. Green suggests that cover 2, with a strong MLB or a SS who can play pass or run might be the key to stopping the dirty cat.
I would think the defenses response will be more Ss that can play run or pass. I see it as less likely that you'll find many MLBs who can consistently cover WRS.
I dont think there is much here. Cover-2 isnt a defense, its a coverage. Two deep safeties playing halves of the field. I dont think that coverage is specifically advantageous because it makes it more difficult for a safety to come forward in run support, a common tactic vs the Wildcat. It aint any secret weapon either, I would wager most defensive snaps in the NFL had cover-2 assignments. The Tampa-2 is a total defensive scheme, but I dont see how it is any more effective given how much an unbalanced line like in the wildcat messes with their gap alignments.
That and most QBs know how to read a Cover 2. Pat White definitely should be able to if he doesn't already (he does and will) before he takes the field on any given game day. I don't really see what the big deal about cover 2 is either. Or any coverage really. You just take advantage of that coverages weakness. The wildcat has weaknesses.. Cover 2 has weaknesses.. Everything does.
Isn't that exactly what we wanted? Take one of those guys out of the box and our blocking advantage is even more increased.
The interesting thing this season is going to be exactly this; watching to see how opposing defenses try to counter the WC, and how we counter them with the WildPat.
