Originally posted by ellix
OK, but what is your solution? As long as CBs are worse at playing Zone than LBs, people are going to continue to use 4 LB sets every chance they get. CBs have the worst tackling on the field, and also tend to get put in undesirable Zones a lot of times where they can't have impact. Why would I choose to use more of them?
You can't be mad at Zone coaches for doing what they have to do to give themselves the best chance to win. Should we complain about Man coaches who call Dime sets against I formation? No one seems to care when that happens.
lmao I don't have that problem, if a team runs dime formation against my primary run offense set, my team will average 6+ yards per play and win every time. I am saying the same thing Xars has been saying, zone defense needs more plays in other formations. Like he said in a real situation a team would put more CB on the field against 3wr trips formation. They would still be zone defenders just closer aligned with the WR. This is the same thing I am saying, I get your defense for zone uses more high LB sets because it is working for them. But, it should not work for them and that's the problem with a zone. You should be better against the pass with CB on the field, but there is a key reason you do not. Builds, most zone CB are slow as fuck, ergo they react fast but never get there. While zone LB most still has more speed to counteract the HB. Now does that make sense why LB are better at zone than CB? they react the same since they have similar awareness checks, but they usually have much higher physicals than CB so they get there faster.
Zone cant beat everything like you guys want when you say balance. Man does not beat everything either unless we use plays that work best against the other team's offense. Which is the same thing that should be going on with the zone. They should be playing matchup games instead of zone defense runs the same few plays against all formations hoping to get the most INT. That is not even game logical, You change up what you do compared to all formations to work the best.
OK, but what is your solution? As long as CBs are worse at playing Zone than LBs, people are going to continue to use 4 LB sets every chance they get. CBs have the worst tackling on the field, and also tend to get put in undesirable Zones a lot of times where they can't have impact. Why would I choose to use more of them?
You can't be mad at Zone coaches for doing what they have to do to give themselves the best chance to win. Should we complain about Man coaches who call Dime sets against I formation? No one seems to care when that happens.
lmao I don't have that problem, if a team runs dime formation against my primary run offense set, my team will average 6+ yards per play and win every time. I am saying the same thing Xars has been saying, zone defense needs more plays in other formations. Like he said in a real situation a team would put more CB on the field against 3wr trips formation. They would still be zone defenders just closer aligned with the WR. This is the same thing I am saying, I get your defense for zone uses more high LB sets because it is working for them. But, it should not work for them and that's the problem with a zone. You should be better against the pass with CB on the field, but there is a key reason you do not. Builds, most zone CB are slow as fuck, ergo they react fast but never get there. While zone LB most still has more speed to counteract the HB. Now does that make sense why LB are better at zone than CB? they react the same since they have similar awareness checks, but they usually have much higher physicals than CB so they get there faster.
Zone cant beat everything like you guys want when you say balance. Man does not beat everything either unless we use plays that work best against the other team's offense. Which is the same thing that should be going on with the zone. They should be playing matchup games instead of zone defense runs the same few plays against all formations hoping to get the most INT. That is not even game logical, You change up what you do compared to all formations to work the best.
