Smirt211 wrote:
Blondie1977 wrote:
Bruno77 wrote:
From what I've seen Nickel 335 Cover 2 is godawful against the run and even worse against flares/**** like that.
Smirt and I have mentioned this several times in XFL forums. 3-3-5 Cover 2 was the key to stopped flares in 4.5, but it is horrible in 4.6. You're better off running nickel blitzes against 113 than 3-3-5 Cover 2.
You could probably think of MFN as an adaptable living organism. As another style rose to the surface and became more widespread, the effectiveness of the play in question got shifted to lose its bite. I was fine with it for years and years until recently. There could be that, JDB tweaking behind the scenes or the parachuting in of a multitude of aggressive players like me whom go after a focal point and began running hard at it. All 3 factors could be at play.
Smirt is dead on the and in the nfl when rules are tweaked new approaches arise. The value of recieving and coverage abilitlies began this evolution. As 4.3 til now those ratings have beome much more valueable.
You see it with the wr1 targets falling off the map in 4.3 all the way to the dump off city days of 4.5. Alot of that 4.5 shift was really about looking at those flats. That particular area...especially on medium and long passes.
One could use a bit of speed whether it be raw or made by using a WR slotted at RB and swing it out there 7-11 yards deep for an almost automatic completion, even with little receiving skills.
So, in generalization but more specifically that was cut off per say. Now (4.6) with luck a 70 speed 100 man bump LB can keep up sometimes....well at least enough not to have the QB attempt a target.
Some perhaps unwanted results you'll see are those pitches to the RB (behind the LoS) that throws the screen wildly while your back tracks down that erratic pitch for sometimes a monster loss.
