Sentence examples for a man coverage from inspiring English sources

"If I'm dropping back in what we call controlled seven," Testaverde said, "and I see the receiver in a man coverage, I'm going to put my seventh step in the ground and throw him the ball now.

A lot of Arizona's best defensive plays were just a matter of a man-coverage defense outperforming an offense and its quarterback.

It's rare that a defense would allow a cornerback to sit over top of the tight end and let the receiver move across the field to be covered by a safety in a true man coverage.

The only coverages that would typically call for both the Sam linebacker and a safety to be in the flat would be Cover 3, Cover 1 and Cover 0. Cover 3 is the only true zone coverage of the bunch; Cover 1 is man underneath with a single-high safety and Cover 0 is a pure man coverage across the board.

In watching the Patriots' last two losses, Maybin said he noticed that Pittsburgh and the Giants had played a lot of man coverage in an effort to bump New England's receivers off their short and intermediate routes, then kept a safety back to discourage Tom Brady from throwing deep.

Though he's lost a step in man coverage, Barber is too valuable as an X-factor in the slot to play in center field.

A lot of their blitzes are green dogs, which is when a defender in man coverage rushes the quarterback after he sees that his man is staying in to block.

The Dolphins' secondary did a good job in man coverage after a slow start.

Nickelback Orlando Scandrick is a liability in man coverage.

"They went to a little more man coverage in the second half to stop our running game.

"They gave us a lot of man coverage, and our receivers worked hard to get open," he said.