I think some of the cover 3 single high safety stuff could make a surge in defensive playbooks. They really have come up with a solid system for funneling teams insde where they let their monsters lay down the law on the quick hit underneath stuff lots of teams are using.

 

You are forced by the outside CBs and single high safety to either risk short plays to the inside or attempt deeps passes to the sidelines underneath the deep coverage and over the short coverage nearly every play. You will not be attempting deep passes down the middle if you value the life of your TEs/WRs , wont be throwing short passes to the sidelines without eventually seeing a pic-6 in the game , and you wont be using read option unless you want a dead QB.

 

Its either deep sideline or short in the middle and to offset that they got 6'3 CBs to guard the edges and a beast SS to take away the inside stuff. Teams will definitely try to follow this model in the coming years especially if Seattle continues to find success.

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