Quote:Ramsey clearly lines up and passes off Benjamin who makes the big play. He passed him off and dropped back up into his zone.

 

Telvin dropped into his zone, Poz dropped into his.

 

Gratz should have never dropped that far back and followed his man into the deep secondary. They're playing a Cover 2 Zone defense on that play imo, which is why that WR ran straight into Cyp and Gipson, while Gratz realized he messed up and tried to spin backwards when he seen Cyp right there.

 

If Gratz stays at home, that wide open area that Benjamin ran into isn't wide open. Gratz is sitting right there within 2-5 yards of the WR.

No one was covering the guy the entire route across the field. The fact that no one picked him up coming from the opposite side of the field  tells you that a breakdown happened long before he got into Gratz's supposed zone.

 

Home for a CB is not a zone 5 yards deep. That is a LB's zone. Poz is the one who had no business dropping back that deep.He is the one responsible for the shallow zone not Gratz. Poz is the one who should have released the deep route to Gratz and stayed at home in the shallow zone.

 

What is more telling than the fact that Gratz is covering a guy who runs into triple coverage is the fact that Poz ends up being in no man's land not covering anyone. Poz is the one who bit deep and got burned underneath. He is the one who had no business dropping back. That is his shallow zone that the receiver ran through uncontested.

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