Meta Zone defense

cursedsoulm81 said:

U went to a old post on instagram by a analytics team cover 2 and cover 1 is what your favorite team runs whether u wanna admit it or not all it takes is a google search and it will tell you most teams use man because it allows more blitzers while also providing coverage also it has proven to be more successful through the years also there is post about how the bills have played man coverage the most this year now Most NFL and college teams today use pattern-match, or match coverages, which attempt to merge or give you the best of both worlds of zone and man coverage. The idea is whether you're playing man or zone, you want to get bodies on every receiver as fast as possible and want no receiver going anywhere without a defender right in their grill. Based off the route distribution after the snap, each defender in coverage will either "match" that receiver, "match" another receiver, or play a zone.

Man-match coverages: All defenders in coverage will end up covering someone man to man.

Zone-match coverages: A defender in coverage may either match a receiver or end up playing a zone.

There is more of a tendency to play man coverage in either blitzing or deep passing situations. When blitzing, man coverage helps to make sure at least everyone is covered. In pass situations, many NFL and college teams will play man, with at least one or two deep safeties playing free to help on deeper passes. Man coverage is also seen more in goal-line situations to minimize immediate windows and because defenses are often sending more rushers.

When you play man coverage, defenders have to take their eyes off the QB/box more quickly and will turn WITH receivers to cover them. In zone coverage, defenders are turning/rotating back to cover that allows them to cover their zone while keeping their eyes on the QB/box. Sometimes those turns can be with the receiver as well. Zone coverage is still very popular, because it doesn't require your coverage defenders to run toe to toe with potentially faster/better athletes, and it's nice for run defense, because your cover defenders are keeping their eyes forward more.

Again, with pattern-match coverages and rules though, everything above may not apply, or apply differently based on all the various ways there are to do pattern-match coverage (there are a lot).

It’s interesting that I can define the exact moment where you copied and pasted because punctuation finally entered the chat. 

What information you shared from another source basically confirmed that the point you are trying to make is not true. And honestly it sounds like you’re mad that the skill gap has finally widened again. Even with the AP increase, all of the 0 AP knockout abilities are gone and it’s really expensive to have zone knockouts where it matters (you can choose basically 3-4 spots), so defenses are still vulnerable if you just do a quick read on what abilities your opponent is running. Regardless, you shouldn’t be able to just constantly run cover 0 man blitzes all day (and pray your AI defenders bail you out) without getting exploited. You might be able to get away with that against less experienced players in MUT, but most games you’re going to get absolutely cooked through the course of the game.

sugarrmilkk said:

It’s interesting that I can define the exact moment where you copied and pasted because punctuation finally entered the chat. 

What information you shared from another source basically confirmed that the point you are trying to make is not true. And honestly it sounds like you’re mad that the skill gap has finally widened again. Even with the AP increase, all of the 0 AP knockout abilities are gone and it’s really expensive to have zone knockouts where it matters (you can choose basically 3-4 spots), so defenses are still vulnerable if you just do a quick read on what abilities your opponent is running. Regardless, you shouldn’t be able to just constantly run cover 0 man blitzes all day (and pray your AI defenders bail you out) without getting exploited. You might be able to get away with that against less experienced players in MUT, but most games you’re going to get absolutely cooked through the course of the game.

Fact of it being you seem to dodge what the factual evidence is man is cover 0 cover 2 and cover 1 which most teams run consistently every now and again you’ll see a zone for a deep pass or run now I’m stating facts there is 10 ap right it’s take 2 ap for deep zone ko so your safety’s are done with 6 ap leftover u can add all three corners with dzko as well u seem to think Everyone likes the state of the game when in reality it’s heavily favored for zone defenses point being I can’t run deep route ko in man with all my corners and still have my safety’s with dzko as well zone kids can and the source confirmed 60-70 percent of coverage is cover 1 argue with a wall because from the way Baltimore plays we run man and we dog y’all’s favorite teams same in madden im top 100 kid ain’t lost to another top 100 player yet

TheNickSix said:

A good zone team runs match, which looks like man coverage. Outside corners when pressed are basically man, so you're partially correct I guess. 

But no, no nfl team runs 90% man coverage. Zone is not exclusively a prevent defense that statement is wild haha

Thank you cover 1 cover 0 cover 2 I see more of that than a cover 3 cover 4 or cover 6