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Borrowing some from this superb breakdown of some Viking coverage breakdowns.
http://vikingsterritory.com/2017/analysi...-secondary
Rhodes was in excellent coverage, just lost out to an amazing catch. Alexander was fooled badly by the underrated Baldwin, who is similar to our Adam Theilen, a master of route running.
So Alexander has work to do and this was a good baptism by fire for the youngster. hopefully he can learn, forget and carry on growing into the position. I expect that will be our weakness on D this year and may be a bit frustrating at times.
But what I really want to highlight, and I have touched on it in other threads, some of the issues were due to us having a great coach. Instead of resting on his laurels and waiting for offenses to catch up to him, he forges ahead. 2 years ago it was the double A gap pressure. Last year that faded away and BRob was the joker, learning offensive protection calls and then exploiting them on the field.
This year, he is changing up some coverages.
Quote: the Vikings were toying with new coverages during the game, which may have led to the blown assignments.
“We were working on some different coverages in that game,” Zimmer said. “I think we need to continue to get that,” he added.
He has used pattern matching concepts already, but it sounds like he is testing new ideas. Maybe they weren't quite right, maybe the guys didn't fully trust them yet, but that is part of being on the cutting edge. And it was only preseason. So instead of playing vanilla, Zimmer is mixing up some crazy flavors to see what works. At first I was thinking, why tell people that? But then I wonder, well it puts doubt in the offensive minds as they attempt to figure out how to attack the Vikings. You know Green Bay is working to solve the riddle that has really slowed their offense down. So now they have a bit more to work on without knowing exactly what they are looking for. That is why I love our coach.
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