Shanahan: "the most underrated player in the history of the game"

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Originally Posted by The Goat

Like to pose this question to the "brains" around here: do we ask a lot of our corners? Schematically wise I think we do. Aside from the Steelers few teams (successfully) use the corner blitz. Our late season success saw a lot of that kind of scheming btw. Sure, Orakpo will be back. Is he gonna change everything? I hope not if you get my drift.

Hall knows the scheme and plays it well when he's serious out there. Whatever he's lost in talent is off-set by experience and knowledge. I highly, highly doubt there's a CB in draft/FA who would overall outperform Hall next season as a Redskin.

At this point, pretty much every team in the nfl is forced to play predominantly man coverage with its corners simply because offensive coaches and receivers are too good at breaking down zone. So we ask of our corners what every other team does.

The game was a bit different two years ago. I think defenses were more schematically diverse. Now with all the changes on the offensive side, the Tampa 2 and other base zone variations are dying out and defenses are saving creativity for third down situations.