Good thing I played the Titans DST last night. :shifty:

If SammyG knows so much about football maybe he should help Fallen Angel understand it

SammyG probably couldn't tell you what a cover 2 is.

It is the defense I go in on Madden and get fucking burned all the time somehow cuz the Rams defense is terrible on that game. Bigger Cover 3 fan on that game.

But a cover 2 was really established by Tampa like 10 years ago or so wasn't it? I'm sure it was used before that too, but didn't Tampa have that Tampa 2 cover that they used a lot?

Cover 2 is a shell defense consisting of two safeties back deep each responsible for a half of the field.

Tampa 2 is zone defense, with the safties dropping back, like cover 2, but with the MLB droppin back and covering the middle of the field, with the rest of the coverage dropping back 8-10 yards from scrimmage.

1. Touchdown zone= Endzone. It's where you gotta go to get 6 points. After that you get a chance to kick an 18 yard field goal which is an extra point, you get 1 point for that. For a 2 point conversion, you get the ball at the two yard line and try to score another touchdown basically, you get 2 points if you get that.

2. Line of scrimmage is where the play starts, yes. There needs to be a minimum of 5 men on the line, yes, but you can also include a Tight End or two on the sides too. 5 men in the back does not happen, no. Teams can either have 1,2,3,4,5 receivers, depend on the formation they go in. Teams with potent passing attacks, like GB for example, often go into 5 spread formations (five receivers). Other teams that run, can have 5 men on the line, the QB, a fullback, and a running back lined up in a I formation, with 3 receivers. Remember, 11 on offense, 11 on defense. There is no rule that tells you how many men you should have in the backfield, but you usually won't see more than 3 (shot gun formation with dual running backs in there)

QB-Quarterback (guy the ball is snapped to )
HB/RB- Running Back (guy that gets handoffs from the QB)
WR- Wide Receiver (guys that catch the ball thrown to them from QB, although running backs get thrown to as well.)
TE- Tight End, they receive passes as well as get placed on the offensive line to block for the quarterback/running back to create time for the quarterback and create holes for the running backs to run through.

LG, LT, C, RG,RT= Left Guard, Left Tackle, Center (snaps the ball), Right Guard, Right tackle. All of these guys are on the offensive line and help protect the quarterback, or make holes for the running back.

Defensive tackles, Defensive Ends are on the defensive line, and try to get to the quarterback, or tackle the running backs, basically stop the opposing team's progress.

Linebackers line up behind the defensive line and are there to back up the defensive line. They are usually the hardest hitters in the game. LAURINAITIS BABYYY.

Cornerbacks cover the wide receivers and try to prevent completions from occuring, or they try to intercept the pass, which means they catch the ball from the quarterback and run the other way.

Safeties play deep in the defensive backfield usually, and are safety valves for any deep passes the quarterback might throw. They are there to help the cornerbacks with coverage, or they can blitz the quarterback. I dunno, it's tough to explain everything in football, I just gave you a basic rundown I believe.

Please excuse the roughness of the drawing but here is what I have gathered from your explanation and visualized.

Point out where I am wrong as I am almost certain I have the WR in the wrong spot.


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The typical pro defensive set is a 4-3, or 3-4, with two safeties being on both the strong and weak sides of the offense. Rarely will you see five down defensive linemen unless in a short yardage or goal-line situation.

Or the '85 Bears.

6-2

The receivers are not lined up close to the line, usually, they are on the far ends of the field.

I labeled what I think eahc person is.

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Yeah, sorry, picked an empty backfield lol

love Pat Angerer

Anyone else wanna take me up on my bet that Ray Lewis is the first player suspended under this new "Zero Tolerance" policy for hits?

The Cover 2 really?

What about cover 2?

There needs to be 7 men on the line of scrimmage. The offensive tackles have to be "covered", either by a tight end or wide receiver.

What that means, Fallen Angel, is that you have your five offensive lineman. You have the center (the player who snaps the ball to the quarterback), two guards, one to each side of the center, and two offensive tackles, one to each side of the center. That is 5 men that will always be on the line of scrimmage. However, the two tackles, the outermost offensive line players, must be "covered" by another player to their outside shoulder. This could be a tight end or wide receiver. These players will line up at the line of scrimmage, on the line, to "cover" the tackle. Basically, the offensive tackle cannot be the farthest player to the outside in an offensive formation. There must be a tight end or wide receiver on each side that lines up on the line of scrimmage.

There can't be more than 7 players on the line either. For example, if two wide receivers line up on the right side of a formation, one of those players must be on the line of scrimmage, and the other will generally line up exactly 1 yard behind the line of scrimmage.

Kind of seems like you are trying to hard again to attack, SammyG.

To further illustrate my point in my previous post, look at this picture. You have five offensive lineman. They are on the line of scrimmage. It may appear that the guards and tackles are slightly back from center, but that is allowed because they are going to be pass protecting.

On the left side of the formation, on the bottom of the picture, note how the middle receiver, of the three, is lined up on the 21 yard line, where as the other two receivers to that side are lined up on the 20 yard line. On the right side of the formation, the top side of the photo, the far most outside receiver is lined up on the 21 yard line, while the receiver in the "slot" is lined up on the 20 yard line.

If you look at this, you can see 7 men on the line of scrimmage. 5 offensive lineman, and the two receivers, one to each side of the formation.

I know this seems complicated, but it really isn't.

Also, there are tons of variations for formations. You don't have to have a certain number of tight ends, wide receivers, or running backs on the field.

Great game on Espn2.

Indianapolis must be Drunk Kicker U

Happy Tuesday Party People

Love how much of a whiny bitch James Harrison is being about these illegal hit punishments. Classic Steelers football.

How many times has he threaten to retire or boycott something by now, 3-4 times?

Worst was him boycotting the meeting with the President when the Steelers won the title just because Obama planned to have the Cardinals be there had the Cards won the Superbowl. Somehow he felt disrespected that there was plans for a Cardinals meeting even though Presidents always plan for 2 teams and then invite the winners.

Mr. Harrison doesn't seem particularly smart.

Agreed. Great football player, but a mental midget.

If the Colts beat the Texans as beat up as they are now, then the Texans have no shot in hell of ever winning the AFC South.

The Colts will be without Dallas Clark, Austin Collie and possibly without Joe Addai.


BTW i'll be at this game. Tailgaiting at around 4 or 5 pm. Drunk as shit when i go in. Balls out as the game is played. GO COLTS!

Peyton Manning might seal up another MVP award if he destroys the Texans on MNF without Clark, Collie and Addai. Am i wrong?

5WR, no RB, no TE

4 WR's, RB in motion out to the far left ( #33). No TE. It's classic Patriots football. They motion there RB out as a 5th receiver and spread the field.


too easy.

Not really. I mean he labeled them wrong, but it's obviously a motion of a RB coming out of the backfield and moving to far left as a receiver.

Patriots do that alot when there is 1 safety in coverage. If you show them a single safety look, Brady audibles the RB out to a WR spot and goes empty backfield.

Now you get a LB matched up against Welker, which is just stupid to begin with.

So you're saying it's still 5 WR's?

:lol: I just noticed there's like 10 LB's labeled

Most of the time the motion is to pick up if they are in man or zone coverage.

Ouch. Dallas Clark is out for the season now.

Yet another hit to my damn fantasy team. Who'd be getting Clark's catches RP?

My guess is Collie and Garcon will get a lot more catches now. Who is the Colts backup TE anyway?

Jacob Tamme

<font color=goldenrod>Fucking hate it when the Giants don't play on Sunday. It'll be like that 2 weeks in a row</font> :(

Let's go Steelers and Chargers.

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He's back.....

Also, Chris Ivory is a f'n beast..

Wonder how many knee injuries we'll see this week with everyone going down low to tackle.

I wonder if we will see high fantasy numbers this week.

Brees throws his 7th pick of the season.

So fn glad I took the Browns +19.5 vs the Saints

Missing both our RB's and 3 CB's and Sharper is limited..

Our special teams coach should be fired..

Drew Brees is horrible

I dont know if I can take much more of this Ravens game.

I've seen 4 year olds with ADD who are more disciplined than the Cincinnati Bengals.

Marvin's gotta go. Bratkowski should've been gone 3 years ago. It's not one or two bad eggs messing up the chemistry. It's the entire freaking team that can't get organized. How hard is this?

So a "horrible" QB beat the favored Colts in the Super Bowl??

HAHA Ed Reed int, next play is a flea flicker to Boldin for 44 yards td

Ravens now up! yay

Yeah, it's kinda like how a 25 year old undrafted rookie QB beat the defending champs 2 weeks ago. ;)

Is the RP/Krispy feud starting up again? Gonna have to subsribe to this thread now.

I'm going to eat a bullet..

One good thing, I am going to the Saits/Steelers game next week, so the tix should be cheaper..

ahahahaha

Just like in the Cards game, nothing is falling our way..

PACMANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN

These officials are dookie..

someones feathers are ruffled .

your team is dookie

ROFL THE BIGGEST ROBBERY EVER JUST HAPPEND IN MIAMI

oh lookie. Another Brees pick 6.

I coulda had the Browns -19.5 and theyd still cover..amazing

WOOOOOOO Chiefs! Good win guys. Still first place.

Are you really trying to say that a bad team beat your team in the Super Bowl??

Madden curse..

This weekend sucked.

word

Nah it ruled.

The NFC is very mediocre this year.

and the Broncos are just embarrassing themselves

AFC West Champions: Kansas City Chiefs

Now that's got a great ring to it.

SammyG: lol Rams

God. Fucking Bills come out and play a good game against the Ravens and lose it in OT.

At least it was fun to watch.

And they will still be winless after next week. :wave:

LOL San Diego

The Ravens have a bye and then the Panthers in 2 weeks.

Nice timing for Matt Moore to heat up. Bet he throws for 300 yards too.

:lol: Chargers turnovers.

WR catches the ball but never gets touched so he places ball on the ground and immediately gets swarmed by Pats players for the ball. Chargers end up loosing the ball.

Amazing games so far. Like 15 fumbles in Redskins vs Bears. Fucking retarded game.

Goddamn I love the Niners right now.

Tebow Time IMO

it might just be time to fly to England

Just got home.

Fire McDevil.

this game would be a fun drinking game

everytime a Bronco embarrasses themselves you take a drink

I was kind of jealous my brother is at this game

TEBOW TIME GOD DAMNIT!

Jesus Christ, Skippord. I can't even watch this game.

Just saw the Redskins game on Sportscenter but that was a pretty clutch win.

I am going to look like an idiot here.

But linebackers are only used on defense right?

Yeah

Thanks for playing the 2010 NFL Season Denver Broncos

this game is bumming me out

Traded Darren McFadden in my fantasy league earlier in the year bc this guy wouldn't leave me the fuck alone. Seriously was texting me 55774372728 a day with awful trade offers and he wouldn't stfu. Finally took driver and some other clown for him even though I really did not want to do it. Hate myself so much now. H8 that guy even more

TE-BOW TE-BOW TE-BOW