As fans get ready to watch the Eagles and the Chiefs in the Super Bowl on Feb. 9, let's break down the differences between Cover 1 and Cover 3.

Simply, a zone defense has a defender guarding an area instead of a specific player. The Cavs play a 2-3 zone that adapts to ...

This is what New York Jets fans should expect from defensive coordinator Steve Wilks in terms of personnel, coverages, and ...

If the secondary played Cover 3, three deep defenders would divide ... The base Cover 2 is a zone defense where every defender is responsible for an area of the field and not a specific man.

Martindale’s defense was blitz-heavy and preferred man-to-man schemes to zone schemes. Therefore, in Bowen’s Cover 3 system, the defenders must read and react much more often than in press-man ...

Cover 3 was his most common zone coverage call but ... but it’s about the least safe way someone could play a zone defense. Another example and the goal here is to get the ball out quick ...