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excellent article
Greg Cosell's Super Bowl Review: Inside the play that flipped the Patriots' Super Bowl win
reading around this thread some earlier this week it seemed that we got hot in 4th simply because the Falcon's D got tired and returned to their zone concepts which we were able to beat...but that's not quite it according to this
in essence falcons played a robber 1 switch, so they had man coverage w/ one guy roaming the field to stop the crossing routes in the middle of the field usually...and they added a wrinkle where the robber would sometimes switch depending on what route a CB would run (which is what made the pick 6 happen)...and the 2nd half adjustments to beat it was to play outside the hashes and run routes outside, thereby eliminating the need to care about the robber who was inside the hashmarks, and the confusion that could come up from the switch of roles
but he mentions the falcons were playing man late into regulation and OT
Very cool and Greg explains it much better with pics, check it out
Greg Cosell's Super Bowl Review: Inside the play that flipped the Patriots' Super Bowl win
reading around this thread some earlier this week it seemed that we got hot in 4th simply because the Falcon's D got tired and returned to their zone concepts which we were able to beat...but that's not quite it according to this
in essence falcons played a robber 1 switch, so they had man coverage w/ one guy roaming the field to stop the crossing routes in the middle of the field usually...and they added a wrinkle where the robber would sometimes switch depending on what route a CB would run (which is what made the pick 6 happen)...and the 2nd half adjustments to beat it was to play outside the hashes and run routes outside, thereby eliminating the need to care about the robber who was inside the hashmarks, and the confusion that could come up from the switch of roles
but he mentions the falcons were playing man late into regulation and OT
Very cool and Greg explains it much better with pics, check it out