Decoding two-high defenses with Cody Alexander
The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL
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🗓️ 17 November 2021
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Robert Mays welcomes MatchQuarters’ Cody Alexander to break down the rise of two-high defenses across the NFL. They dive into what we’ve seen on film over the last several years, what teams are implementing it the most, how it’s impacted the run game across the league and much more.
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| 0:57.8 | I'm Robert Mays. |
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| 1:01.3 | I wanted to kind of take a step back and dig into a discussion that has been kind of prevalent around the NFL this year. |
| 1:09.3 | We've heard so much and we've talked so much on this show, |
| 1:12.8 | about the rise of too high defenses in the NFL. |
| 1:17.1 | Think about the ways that people have discussed the chiefs this year, right? |
| 1:20.7 | So many conversations and so many just throwaway lines |
| 1:24.8 | about how teams are playing two high defenses against the |
| 1:28.3 | Chiefs. |
| 1:28.9 | And I wanted to dig a couple layers deeper than that and talk about what we really mean |
| 1:35.0 | when we're discussing the rise of two high defenses. |
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