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Originally Posted by YDFL Commish
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Originally Posted by Dam8610
The defense the Colts run now is modeled much more after Seattle's "Legion of Boom" defense than it is after Dungy's Tampa 2 scheme. It's cover 3 and cover 1 heavy, which is why they want corners who are better at man and a rangy, athletic, playmaking FS.
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On the back end that may be true. But the front 7 assignments remain largely the same.
I think that Eberflus would like to play a variety of looks on the back end, and you really have to do that in today's NFL. |
I don't think a Front 7 is going to be common in the NFL much longer. Nickel is becoming the base set in the NFL. That said, the scheme does seem to look for its DL to be 1 gap penetrators and generate the bulk of the pass rush, with the LBs relied on to clean up anything that gets through as well as being asked to cover well. In those respects, it's similar, but so are some 3-4 schemes, such as Wade Phillips's scheme.