Originally posted by nexill
The problem really lies in the fact that I have found a single, team-wide concept that works well for zone defense, but not much else! And the build doesn't translate well to man defense, so you can't really "try out" zones. A couple of really talented guys have figured out some ways to throw them in from time to time, so I don't want to say it's impossible to find good hybrid builds that could be good at both; and there's a possibility you could do some depth chart shenanigans to have 1 or 2 zone-focus corners that would get played in mostly zone situations or something. But in general, i think it has to be a team-wide concept from the start that everyone very specifically builds to. And even then, i find it to be far less consistent than a man defense. But it's also super fun, and after calling roughly the same man defense for like 40 or 50 seasons, it was nice to find something different.
the player tactics have to change depending on what defense you run, and getting that changed game to game.....yeah
The problem really lies in the fact that I have found a single, team-wide concept that works well for zone defense, but not much else! And the build doesn't translate well to man defense, so you can't really "try out" zones. A couple of really talented guys have figured out some ways to throw them in from time to time, so I don't want to say it's impossible to find good hybrid builds that could be good at both; and there's a possibility you could do some depth chart shenanigans to have 1 or 2 zone-focus corners that would get played in mostly zone situations or something. But in general, i think it has to be a team-wide concept from the start that everyone very specifically builds to. And even then, i find it to be far less consistent than a man defense. But it's also super fun, and after calling roughly the same man defense for like 40 or 50 seasons, it was nice to find something different.
the player tactics have to change depending on what defense you run, and getting that changed game to game.....yeah
