I like how Pleasant has returned the zone match concept to the defense, which Staley used mixing it with man coverages, though it has led to some breakdowns ... It allows them to use Lake instead of SCB. Zone match is a way of playing a zone scheme aggressively. This was the element missing from Morris' scheme and IMO why the secondary is playing better overall.
Nonsense.
Staley's coverages didn't disappear and now reappear with Pleasant. And the use of Lake is to match personnel, not scheme.
I am sorry but this explanation is worse than your understanding of the 2-gap 0-tech.
Morris didn't change the scheme after Staley left and using Lake has nothing to do with some change in coverages.
And as an aside---this deification of Staley and Pleasant and the demagoguing of Morris is very odd. Staley proved that he's no god, the tarnish of off. Pleasant got canned last year and the Lions got better in coverage -- defensive passer rating fell from 109 to 84 after he left.
That isn't to say they don't know their stuff or are bad coaches, but blindly trying to overrate them to dump on someone you don't like does not make any sense.
It is your right to not engage on the scheme, you can ignore me, but the things you've posted here and other posts on coverage are just not true and that can be shown with photo and video evidence.
examples:
1. Rams do not 2-gap their 0-tech.
2. Morris didn't change the coverage scheme away from the Fangio scheme. (100% the same? No. Vastly different? No. )
It would be a lot simpler to just say you think the Rams defense is less successful in 2021-23 than it was in 2020 (true) and you blame Morris. Any fan can say that and it's just an opinion. Another fan can feel different.
But when you dig into scheme and present things that are errant and use that errant information to blame Morris you open yourself up to being challenged.
That is only fair, wouldn't you say?
