Would you have Drafted differently?

[ChiefsCountry]

I think you are getting some things mixed up BigChieffan. 4-3 just means 4 down lineman and 3 backers. Cover 2 is a coverage term. For a middle linebacker, you have to have the ability to drop deep into coverage. While at the same time have the speed to reconize the run. Ideally you want a Derrick Brooks, Jonathan Vilma, EJ Henderson type.

[BigChiefFan]

Originally Posted by ChiefsCountry

I think you are getting some things mixed up BigChieffan. 4-3 just means 4 down lineman and 3 backers. Cover 2 is a coverage term. For a middle linebacker, you have to have the ability to drop deep into coverage. While at the same time have the speed to reconize the run. Ideally you want a Derrick Brooks, Jonathan Vilma, EJ Henderson type.

This is what I said...Sorry, but the cover two is part of a 4-3 base defense.

I don't know how you get that I'm confused on the matter, I'm not. Connor played in the 4-3, will play in the 4-3 for Carolina and all Mecca told us was he wouldn't work in that scheme-he obviously WILL, so I pointed it out.

[veist]

Originally Posted by BigChiefFan

This is what I said...Sorry, but the cover two is part of a 4-3 base defense.

I don't know how you get that I'm confused on the matter, I'm not. Connor played in the 4-3, will play in the 4-3 for Carolina and all Mecca told us was he wouldn't work in that scheme-he obviously WILL, so I pointed it out.

Just because a 4-3 and the Tampa two both employ 4 down linemen and 3 backers doesn't mean they have the same responsibilities in both looks. What Mecca and others have tried to tell you and you have ignored is that in the Tampa two the mike backer is responsible for a lot more ground in coverage than in a 4-3 so that the safeties can more effectively cover the soft spots behind the CBs zones. So he needs to be able to turn and run in coverage because the safeties are going to be split out from the middle. And that is exactly the weak part in his game, in a normal 4-3 the safeties are going to be for that middle ground in coverage.