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Is it the QB's leadership ability? Or the CB's lack of awareness?

QB has 30 Leadership & CB4 has 93 Man Awareness...



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or is it something else?

It’s over powered. SS and LOLB should have been in zone?

I could be wrong, but I think pursuit is what helps with reading play action plays.

Originally posted by Bizzarro24
I could be wrong, but I think pursuit is what helps with reading play action plays.

I think that's correct. There may be multiple factors but pursuit is definitely among the most important attributes.

Originally posted by Bizzarro24
I could be wrong, but I think pursuit is what helps with reading play action plays.

Originally posted by Node
I think that's correct. There may be multiple factors but pursuit is definitely among the most important attributes.


Oops, didnt read Pursuit thoroughly enough. Thanks guys!

Originally posted by Bizzarro24
I could be wrong, but I think pursuit is what helps with reading play action plays.

You're correct.

Originally posted by Bizzarro24
I could be wrong, but I think pursuit is what helps with reading play action plays.

Add it to the laundry list of things CBs need now...

Play action shouldn't affect a corner playing man

Originally posted by rabidlizard24
Play action shouldn't affect a corner playing man

You don't want your corner to play the run?

Originally posted by Bizzarro24
You don't want your corner to play the run?

I'm thinking in real life terms. A corners eyes shouldn't be on play action (the backfield) if they are in man technique. Of course you want them to come up on the run, it's just their eyes should be nowhere near the backfield in a man situation when play action would occur.

Originally posted by rabidlizard24
I'm thinking in real life terms. A corners eyes shouldn't be on play action (the backfield) if they are in man technique. Of course you want them to come up on the run, it's just their eyes should be nowhere near the backfield in a man situation when play action would occur.

Uh, in real life terms, as a HS CB, my eyes were ALWAYS in the backfield after the snap. Actually, I would watch the center and guards, to see if they were backpedaling and setting up pass protection. If so, then I watched the QB's eyes. Most HS QBs were pretty bad at looking off coverages, and I only ever watched my man assignment with peripheral vision. Helps avoid getting faked out and burned by stutter steps, shake 'n bakes, etc. You play the ball, not the man.

That's why I was told to always look straight ahead into to middle of the endzone and read the defense with peripheral vision and presnap.
Dont watch receivers as U should know exacly where they are and focus on interesting part of the field as progression goes on. Also on my level defenses were pretty basic so from watching film and watching them line up vs every down U pretty much always know the play.

I am a high school coach and defensive coordinator, played safety in college...as well as a pro arena DB coach. On none of those levels are DBs taught to look at the backfield in a man situation. If you are playing match man outside leverage maybe, but man coverage no. The quickest way for a DB playing man to get beat is to take their eye off of the lower neck or belly button of the receiver. In zone coverage or match man your head should be on a swivel from receiver to backfield but in man it never should. My team on here literally just got beat by this lol.

Different schemes and coaching methods, apparently, since the early 1980s.

As a Safety I was taught to watch the QB and such, as a CB I was told to watch the WR and keep my peripheral vision on QB. If it was a run, I was to head up and turn blockers in so the LB could clean up...I loved Safety much much more.