Split Safety Coverage

[ghost]

In the 1990s, Bill Belichick and Nick Saban snuck away together and holed up in a motel room and each brought a box of film and a projector, and they watched coverages: specifically, the topic of this summit, was man coverage versus zone coverage.

Saban is teaching a master class, on split safety coverage.

[Topcat]

In the 1990s, Bill Belichick and Nick Saban snuck away together and holed up in a motel room and each brought a box of film and a projector, and they watched coverages: specifically, the topic of this summit, was man coverage versus zone coverage.

Saban is teaching a master class, on split safety coverage.

Great video! I found an article that refers to Saban's Split Safety D as "Cover 7". I would say this D requires Will and Mike LB's who both have solid coverage skills. Also need two solid cover corners. If we can get the personnel to run this, it would do a lot towards neutralizing someone like Mahomes, AND do a much better job of stopping those gut-wrenching last minute winning drives that Gus tried so poorly to defend against...

saban cover 7.JPG

https://brophyfootball.blogspot.com/2010/10/nick-saban-split-safety-coverage-cover-7.html

[Steve]

Everyone playing so many 3 and 4 WR-ish formations, that ALL NFL teams are playing a lot of cover 3 these days. It is by far the most common coverage across the NFL. It is very, very tough to cover 3 or 4 players running deep with 2 S. Even if all the players can't run that well, the 3 WR are getting deep pretty quick to challenge the S.