re: A&M - Bama 2012 and JFF vs. the Zone Defense

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The cover 2 look we gave him pre-snap turned into a cover 3 because that's the way Snyder (A&M's defensive coordinator) designed the play. AJ's pass was directed to a receiver that would have been in the weak spot of the cover 2 look he thought he was getting.

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actually it's not really cover-3. It was a transition to cover-1 robber out of our base cover-2. This was the first play we had employed it all year but it became a standard part of our defensive package from that point going forward. The essential difference is there is one high safety and one shallow one filling the hole between the linebackers and where you expect the safeties. It was pretty effective against Bama because they like to work the middle and rarely send more than one guy deep. The best way to attack it is deep outs and corner routes but Bama honestly doesn't run a lot of that.

McCarron struggled reading it all game but you could tell he was very flustered immediately after as he never saw it coming on that play. It's fairly likely he had never seen it on tape because I doubt they looked at old Ohio State film on Snyder's defenses there (he used it a lot at OSU).