(08-01-2017, 11:52 PM)Tuxedo Wrote:

(08-01-2017, 09:51 PM)NYC4jags Wrote: Link doesn't work, but whatever.

He sucked really bad his second year in Jax. Especially when asked to play zone.  If he's the packers best CB right now, then their defense is in trouble and they better make him play man coverage all the damn time.

House essentially says that he was playing too much zone coverage here when his strength was man coverage.

Thanks. Yeah. I found the article and now the OP has a good link as well. 

House was indeed better in press/man than in zone, but he struggled playing both in 2016.   I don't doubt for an instant that Bradley's insistence on so much soft zone lessened House's effectiveness as it likely did much of the secondary. 

I do vividly remember several instances in which they clearly tasked House with a zone and he would give the receiver so much cushion that anything within 12-15 yards of the L.O.S. was essentially given away. It was tough to watch. So yeah -- zone coverage was definitely not his strength.

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