Just how much easier is it for a DC to have half the field locked up to the point no one will even test it? It opens everything up. Your safety can sell out on the run like Green did against Wofford for one. It lets you turn that safety into a de'facto LB without hurting you in the passing game.
If they had to play over the top coverage to protect him, that is one less man in the box. That would mean that our LB would have to range the width of the field water as now, that strong safety can contain those plays. Our LB do not have that range and would get eaten alive on sweeps.
Look at it this way, down the road playing in Columbia, MA shuts down Cooper alone while other have to have safety help to do it.
If they had to play over the top coverage to protect him, that is one less man in the box. That would mean that our LB would have to range the width of the field water as now, that strong safety can contain those plays. Our LB do not have that range and would get eaten alive on sweeps.
Look at it this way, down the road playing in Columbia, MA shuts down Cooper alone while other have to have safety help to do it.
