The cover 1 defense explained by Rob Ryan | The Film Room 

Agree. If even just one of your secondary players are trash, WR and TE are going to have a field day. Nevermind the occasional brainfart.

That’s why you need a good pass rush if you’re going to play cover 1 a lot. Your secondary is only as good as your pass rush.

you're not going to play a lot of cover 1 against a great passing team tho. the majority of the time you want to use this for a team an average air attack (inaccurate QB or weak receiving core), or a team with a great run attack. Cover 1 helps a lot to shut down a good rushing team with the extra man in the box. If you are up against a team with both a great rushing and passing offense, you just pray. Example- the pats ran 46 cover 1 all game long against the great rushing attack of the rams in their super bowl game because they knew Goff was trash and they only needed to stop Gurley and that O-line.

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Its cover 1… cover 7 is a form of cover 1

​@@GDaVo. True. But that's like calling a marine a sailor because the Marines are department of the Navy.

Because this is all common football knowledge. If it was so simple then everyone would be a successful head coach

@@anandr1385 With my raiders now

He's a better teacher than a coach/coordinator I think.

Thanks dude

Amen!