The QB can't beat Cover 2, a defense that little league and High School teams use as a base because of its simplicity.

Let that sink in.

Cover 2 is literally daring an offense to go deep. As most probably know, it's designed to take away all underneath lanes.

Kelce is indirectly pointing right at the PumpCuck.

Its not all about underneath lanes

Not really. The cover 2 is designed to prevent the deep pass by keeping 2 deep safeties. It’s weakness is the midrange throws Alex has been struggling at.

Guys, cover 2 is meant to stop underneath throws. It leaves the two safeties alone up top to cover halves of the field. Cover 2 means it's a 2-deep shell. Just as cover 3 is 3-deep, leaving one safety and the two corners to cover thirds of the deep field. And cover 4 is 4-deep, leaving two safeties and both corners to cover quarters of the deep field.

I'm not meaning to sound like a smart ass, but it's a lot harder to cover deep parts of the field with 2 high players than it is with 3 or 4.

I'm guessing teams are playing Cover 2 and Cover 4 in equal amounts, and disguising the corners in Cover 2 so it looks like they are playing Cover 4 at the snap.

Smith doesn't know whether to get ready to load up (since he predetermines deep throws so much) or look for the underneath route.

His little robot QB brain is just sparking and misfiring all over the place.

but the Gigabits

LMAO

And cloud storage.

The gigabits that runs in the middle of the field to get tackled with 8 seconds left and only one timeout. Those gigabits?

Holy ****, that's almost as bad as throwing OOB on the last play of the game - or snapping the ball with 10-15 seconds left in a playoff game where you're shitting the bed and keep putting the defense on the field in the 2nd half.

There's more, but **** it.

Alex Smith:

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Cover 2 weakness is the outside "gap" between corner and safety, and the deep middle seams. The first requires a strong arm, the second requires the attitude of "I wanna destroy this defense." Smith has neither. But Mahomes...

Basically this.

Does anyone else remember the play against Seattle during the preseason where Mahomes stuck one on the sideline to Jehu Chesson about 20-25 yards down field? That was cover 2. And that was an arm that can beat it with ease.

To be fair, all the NFL base coverages are used at all levels. Cover 1, Cover 3, quarters, 2 man-under, and Cover 2. The NFL just has a lot more creativity with how they implement it.

Lots of high schools run a 4-3, but they aren't NFL level 4-3 defenses.