re: WaPo: How the Saints salvaged their secondary and became a legitimate NFC threat

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So our turn around has acctually coincided with us playing more zone? Seems like a lot of armchair quarterbacks were swearing our early season ills were caused by us playing too much zone. Interesting tidbit.

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Vaccaro was awful as the deep safety playing zone in the first 2 weeks. Moving him closer to the LoS and letting actual safeties play over the top helped a ton.

We played a ton of man coverage in week 2. But most snaps are going to have a combo of man underneath with zone over the top.


I can think of 3 blown zone coverages that led to TDs in the first 2 weeks. And wide open TDs at that. You're also naturally going to play more zone coverages with leads