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Zone coverage (also referred to as a zone defense) is a defensive scheme in gridiron football used to protect against the pass. Zone coverage schemes require the linebackers and defensive backs to work together to cover certain areas of the field, making it difficult for the opposing quarterback to complete passes.
Zone defense is a type of defensive system, used in team sports, which is the alternative to man-to-man defense; instead of each player guarding a corresponding player on the other team, each defensive player is given an area (a zone) to cover. A zone defense can be used in many sports where defensive players guard players on the other team.
2–4–5 defense A type of nickel formation with two linemen (two defensive ends, DEs, or one DE and one defensive tackle, DT), four linebackers (two interior linebackers, ILBs, and two outer linebackers, OLBs), and five defensive backs (three cornerbacks, CBs, one free safety, FS, and one strong safety, SS).
The Cover 1 defense is an aggressive formation employed against offenses trying to gain short yardage. In the Cover 1 defense, one defender—normally a safety—plays deep zone downfield, providing security over the top and freeing the other safety to rush the line of scrimmage or drop back into coverage.
The seam route [22] [23] [24] is a route, usually played against a zone defense in American football, in which the receiver runs at the edges of a defender's coverage (for example, between the linebacker and safety), thus, on the "Seam" between two or more coverages.
The switch to a zone defense completely shut down the Freddies who scored 19 points in the first quarter, 18 in the second and 17 in the third. It wasn't until the mass substitution with the game ...
The concept of zone blocking in both the run and pass game was created by Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz. [dubious – discuss] However, this blocking scheme came to prominence in the modern game when used by the Denver Broncos, under offensive line coach Alex Gibbs (formerly the offensive line coach for the Seattle Seahawks), and head coach Mike Shanahan.
The Knights held Georgia Tech scoreless on five trips inside the 20, and improved to 3-1 ahead of next week's conference opener with SMU.