I Believe the Right Athletes Makes it Impossible
On every play, do you really think that the receiver gets a clean release off the line of scrimmage? You show me a team that allows the receiver to run freely and I show you a team that will get carved up 60-0!
Andre, I think this is one of those debates that rings of bringing crutches into the game. I know in the DFW League, the cover corner was invented at my house back in 1996. I was brainstorming ways of stopping one of the great passers in the league, Don Hudson. He had torched me in previous games with receivers running freely down the field.
So I began to watch great corners like Lester Hayes and Deon Sanders and the positioning and arm movement that they had at the line of scrimmage. I developed corners according to this style.
The first corner was called the cover corner. He was created in a way of hitting a wide receiver at the line of scrimmage. Releasing and then turning and running with the receiver. It happens more than 80% of the time. Then like so many things that are taken from my house without permission, corners were created in a grab and clutch technique unlike the ones I created. But the genesis of the cover corner have a specific part of the base it should be placed on and a certain width between the arms which disallow for holding. Therefore, my covers don't hold. They run and release.
Another type of corner I invented 3 years ago is the "shutdown" corner. He is very physical. He does not hold but instead he picks a player up at the line of scrimmage and throws him to the ground. Now that's not my fault if my defensive player is more physical than your WR?
You have to have WR's who bring that physicality to the game. That's where many do not understand the physics of the game, what makes a receiver able to get off the line of scrimmage. If you watch the DFW Super Bowl, under one of the most physical type of rulesets, on every play receivers were open in that game. Both teams had physical corners but holding was never an issue. And they got off more than 90 plays in the game!
I think many times because games are governed by plays instead of time, you just want your man to get open and an easy pass. That's why some leagues will not allow QBs to throw to engaged receivers. But corners jockey with WRs throughout the course of a game.
If you want to blame anyone for that, blame it on the genesis of the cover corner. However, as I stated the cover corner that comes out of my production are definitely chuck, turn and run with players.
Reg
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