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Originally Posted by Dam8610
A lot of coverage disguise is to fool QBs as well. For example, showing a 2 deep look and then rolling the safeties to drop into a Cover 3 is designed to get the QB to read Cover 2 and throw to what would be the holes in that type of coverage, where ideally you'll have a defender waiting to pick the pass. If a QB were to throw deep middle in that example, which is a classic hole of a Cover 2, the defense would be hoping that that would place their best ballhawking safety in position to intercept the pass or at least bat it down.
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But QBs are trained to read the safety to determine what they are doing back there. They are already doing that post snap. This takes a fairly reliable pre-snap read and throws it out the window. It also ducks with the Chiefs even more because Mahomes depends on Reid feeding him the read on the defense pre-snap so he doesn’t have to do as much processing. So add the pressure of the divisional round then add that he won’t get as much help from the sideline. I like our chances.