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Cover 2 Trap

Corner traps the flat

Cover 2 where the corners show press, then drop into the flats to trap — sitting on short outside routes and jumping them, with the safeties over the top in deep halves.

When it applies

As a changeup against quick-game teams sitting on your soft zones — bait the out, then jump it.

+ StrengthsGenerates picks on impatient quarterbacks; looks like man pre-snap.
− Trade-offsIf the corner guesses wrong, nobody is home in the flat — and he is late to deep help.

Filed under: Coverage shells