gitgronked82
2nd Team Getting Their First Start
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No, I’m not thinking of that, and we haven’t primarily done that.Huh? Jones has already been on an island vs Hill and locked him down. Matter of fact, he's probably covered him better than anybody in the league last 2 times they played. You're thinking of previous games before the last 2 when he did have safety help. He doesn't need any help.
I'll add the caveat though that I don't know if he's totally the same guy after the injury. He didn't play much preseason but looked good when he did.I guess we'll find out soon.
I’m aware of the switch between the early game plans vs Hill where we used to essentially double/bracket him vs how we’ve defended him the last times we’ve played him.
In recent matchups, it’s primarily been cover 1-based schemes where the high safety is still available to help on Hill on deep routes and on crossers (and on crossers, we’ve used that cover 1 cross where the safety jumps the crosser and replaces the trailing man corner, while that corner falls back into deep middle).
My point is that if we then straight up doubled/bracketed the TE, we’re leaving Jones on a complete island- no safety to help on the tyreek crosser or deep route. Unless we dedicate one safety to the TE and one to being the single high deep middle, which I was saying might not be preferred as they may want a robber, a 5th rusher, or a spy












