GAME-CHANGER: New Orleans Saints’ New Defense With Brandon Staley ELEVATES Playmaking

GAME-CHANGER: New Orleans Saints’ New Defense With Brandon Staley ELEVATES Playmaking

The New Orleans Saints new defensive scheme can be gamechanging because it can bring playmaking back to the defense. We got all that and a little bit of land for you on today’s episode of Locked On Saints. You are Locked On Saints, your daily New Orleans Saints podcast, part of the Locked On podcast network. Your team every day. What is good Huda nation and Huda family? I am your host, your friend Ross Jackson, New Orleans native, your New Orleans Saints expert and credentialed member of the media covering those New Orleans Saints as the Saints beat writer over at louisiana sports.net. And on today’s episode of Locked on Saints, the Saints debuted some new helmets and they look awesome. Leel Collins says he’s been talking to Kell Moore. We’ll break down what that could mean for the New Orleans Saints. And we’re going to lead everything off today taking a look at the zone match coverage schematic and scheme that is on its way here to New Orleans under new defensive coordinator Brandon Staley. We’ll get into some of the pitfalls, vulnerabilities, and weak points. But I want to lead everything off with taking a look at why Brandon Staley’s approach could revolutionize and change be a major game changer for defense here in New Orleans. We got all that coming up for you on today’s episode. We appreciate you very much. Whether it’s your first time or your next time, being here with us this time, making us your first listen and being it every day here on the show, which is a proud part of the Lockdown Podcast Network, your team every day. Today’s episode brought to you by our friends over at FanDuel. You can download the FanDuel app or head over to fanduel.com to get started today. Put down $5 for your first bet. If you win that, you’ll get $150 in bonus bets. Go and check them out today. The New Orleans Saints shifting defensive scheme, moving into this zone match type coverage system can be gamechanging for the New Orleans Saints because it puts the Saints defense in position to reclaim the thing that made this defense so fearsome for so many years. And that is elevating its playmaking potential. And so I want to break down what the zone match defense is, why it exists, and how it can impact the New Orleans Saints. So, I want to start off with how it can impact the New Orleans Saints, cuz I think that’s actually the most important part before we get into kind of the nitty-gritty of it all. But I think the two biggest things that this does is that a it forces opposing offenses to game plan for you. It makes them think because you’re not just running a man defense. You’re not just running a zone defense. You’re running a unique blend of both that tries to emphasize the strengths of both man and zone coverages. you’re trying to get the best out of the basics of the NFL. The second thing that I think that this does is that it gives the New Orleans Saints the opportunity to be playmakers by allowing the corners, safeties, and coverage players to have their eyes on the quarterback. This is something that I’ve talked about a lot here on the show. And one of the reasons why I’ve talked about it so much is because several Saints defenders have brought this up to me when I asked them about the sort of benefits of what they’re moving ahead with here with the new changing scheme and changing defense. Every single one of these corners, defensive backs, uh, linebackers that I talk to, the guys that’ll all be in coverage, every one of them has brought up to me in some way, shape, form, or fashion that they feel like it frees them up to go out there and make plays because they can see what the quarterback is reading. They have a better understanding of what it is that they’re doing based on what the offense is doing because of the rules that are there. If then rules, we’ll dive into all that, not if then the musical if I have any other theater nerds out there. Uh but this gives these defensive players an opportunity to have their eyes on the quarterback and then because of that go and try to make plays on the football. So those two things, making the opposing offense think, which sounds small but is huge, and the playmaking opportunity. The third thing isn’t zone match specific, but I do believe that everything that I’ve heard from the defensive coaches that I’ve talked to that they’re going to divvy and change things up based upon what the opposing offense likes to do, wants to do, and and tries to do with their offensive approach. And so, you’re also changing some things much like the offense is going to be changing under Kell Moore for a matchup perspective or from a matchup perspective to try to do the things that defenses that they’re going up against struggle to stop. So, I think you’ll see the same thing over in the defense. That’s not zone match specific, but that’s more Brandon Staley specific. So, I think those are the three biggest impacts. More playmaking, uh, more kind of larger marger, larger margin, larger margin, larger margin of error. Oh, goodness. Uh, for opposing offenses and then that little extra tidbit as well. So, what is the zone match offense? How does it or what is a zone match defense? How does it work? So basically the zone match defense combines the strengths of both man and zone coverage. Corners coverage players will start off in a zone and then they’ll transition to man based on what the rules tell them to do. And those rules can vary sometimes. This is why coaching and talent are the most important thing. Even over the scheme, coaching and talent are the most important thing because you need to coach the rules and as a player you’ve got to understand the rules. And so sometimes the rule is if a if you’re dropping back into a zone, then you’re watching to see is a player taking an outbreaking route or an inbreaking route. Depending upon who does what, one will be your assignment, one won’t be your assignment. If a player is going vertical, then you might switch to man coverage so that you can match up with that vertical route. If a player is staying underneath, then you might stay in your zone to stay over the top of that receiver. So there’s rules, if then. if this happens, then I do this. And so that’s that’s what the if then part of it is. So that’s a big part of it. The the difference the biggest difference between zone and zone match is that instead of a player like if you’re the coverage player, you drop back into your zone. And in traditional zone coverage, if I run into your zone, I’m only your responsibility for as long as I’m in your zone. Then you’re passing me off as I go out of your zone and into another player zone. The way that this typically works is once I move into your zone under most circumstances, obviously there are game calling, play calling exceptions to this, but under most circumstances, I now become your responsibility in man coverage if the rules dictate that my vertical route is your responsibility or my inbreaking router, my outbreaking route is your responsibility. So, it changes a little bit based on that. So that’s the way that zone match works in a very like barebones disclaimer. Why does this exist? This exists mostly because the rip liz defense of like right and left. So that’s kind of the inbreing outbreaking kind of idea. Are they going right? Are they going left? What does that mean for you? That would be your rules. Um this was created as a means to kind of counteract the success of vertical routes, right? And so typically like four verts was the answer to the Legion of Boom cover three defense. You send four routes down there. That middle of the field safety has got to pick one side or the other. That middle of the field safety picks one side. You go to the inside receiver on the side that that safety didn’t pick. It becomes a very easy thing now to counteract cover three defenses. It’s why you don’t see them as prevalent as they were during the Legion of Boom days of Seattle. And then after the Seattle Seattle Seahawks success with the Legion of Boom days, Cam Chancellor, Earl Thomas, um Richard Sherman, of course, Chris Rashard, former New Orleans Saints DB’s coach, was the the secondary coach during that time as well. And so after that, found so much success during those days, we saw a lot of other teams try to implement it. Most famously, probably the Dallas Cowboys who didn’t do it very well. And then so this Ripley’s defense became sort of the answer in the NFL game to the counter of the counter the the cover three defenses with the four verticals and and all the vertical routes and all those other things. And so this is the chess match of the NFL. And so this becomes now what you’re seeing instituted for New Orleans. The the biggest thing to keep in mind here when it comes to zone match is that not every zone match coverage scheme is the same, right? Not every one of them is run exactly the same way. Much like man can be man, but can also be press man. Uh zone can be cover three, but it could also be heavy cover two zone or heavy, you know, middle of field open or middle field close zones, cover six, things like that like we see with Vic Fangio. So I think what we’re going to see with Brandon Sale is probably a little bit more Vic Fangioesque. It’s going to reduce the amount of space that that defenders give in zone coverage. So it’s going to create tighter windows. And the idea will be to allow your defensive players to go out there, read what the quarterback is doing, and then make a play on the football. And so I think that that’s kind of what you’re seeing here. So that’s a little bit of the history of why this became so popular in the NFL, not why it exists or why it was conceived, but why it became so popular at the time that it did and has remained as popular as it did. Coaches that run this, Vic Fangio, Bill Bich, Nick Sabin, Brandon Staley, there’s a lot of these coaches out here that are running all this. And to me, that’s the next thing I want to look at cuz I want to dive into now, now that you know what it is, why it exists, and how it can benefit the Saints. Let’s get into some of the pitfalls because if it’s not coached well and it’s not executed well, you can be in a world of hurt as a defense running this scheme. 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Don’t forget to like, subscribe, come and check us out here every single Monday through Friday. Don’t forget about the Saints squad show as well, Monday and Thursday mornings at 7:30 a.m. Myself, Dylan Sanders, John Hendrickx, and former uh New Orleans Saints wide receiver, Super Bowl winning wide receiver Lance Moore. Also on that show as well, we have a ton of fun. So, make sure you come through for that. I’ll be telling you a little bit more about a training camp schedule in the days ahead, but for right now, let’s dive back in to some zone match coverage conversation. So, what are the biggest disadvantages to the zone match coverage approach? The the number one thing is you can surrender some really really big plays here. Like, you just heard me try to break that down in terms of how to execute it, why it exists, what’s the nuance behind it, and everything like that. And to be honest, it can be a little tricky to kind of explain sometimes. And it’s even trickier to execute. And so coaching and player talent and execution are the biggest two factors to getting this done. Yes, you need athleticism on the field, but if you’re not seeing how the plays develop, if you don’t have the same understanding of the rules as your teammates, if you don’t have a good grasp on the rules at all, these can be big time gaps for you in trying to execute this defense. Now, the good news for New Orleans is that Kool-Aid McKinstry ran this in Alabama with Nick Sabin, one of the forefathers, if you will, of his version of the coverage style or advancing the coverage style. Um, Quincy Riley ran this during his time in college as well, particularly as well at Louisville. Uh, you have quarterbacks that have seen this, that have been going up against, you have safeties that have run this as well. So, and plus you have two veteran safeties on your back on the back end of this defense in Tyron Matthew and Justin Reed who have the experience to be able to adjust this. So, the Saints have a lot of the personnel that they need. They might lack the athleticism that they need at the second level. That is something that I will that maybe is kind of one of the biggest pitfalls for New Orleans. But if they actually get the athleticism from Demario Davis, if they get the athleticism from Pete Warner, from Danny Stzman, from any of these linebackers on the roster, particularly on those coverage snaps, or they swap out one of those linebackers on those coverage snaps and put a sixth defensive back out on that field or a fifth defensive back out on the field by, you know, taking out one of those linebackers, then they’re in an even better situation. So, lots of ways to do this. Alante Taylor also familiar with this coverage scheme and approach. So, the Saints have the knowledge and the football IQ, but can they execute it on the field? If you have two receivers that run into the same zone before they make their breaks, one goes inside, one goes outside, does everybody understand who takes the outside guy and who takes the inside guy? Cuz remember, you holding a zone, but your job is to go to man coverage depending upon the if then, right? If the receiver does this, then or if the route runner does this, then you do this. And so if two receivers enter an overlapping set of corners or defensive backs or coverage player zones, understanding whose responsibility is whose, that’s going to be a big piece that comes down to coaching and time being dedicated in practice to make sure everybody knows this. This is a tough lift. This requires a lot of time in practice. This requires a lot of time in terms of understanding the rules. This is one of the reasons why this whole training camp process is so important. Not just the training camp process, but even OTAAS, mini camp, all that other stuff. And it’s why a guy like Asante Samuel Jr. who’s still a free agent out there right now, having spent time with Brandon Saley, becomes so much more uh of a fit as a potential free agent addition than let’s say a Stefon Gilmore for instance, right? So like you got to find people that are familiar with what you’re trying to execute here. So that becomes a big part of what you’re doing. So, you need elite coaching and you need elite talent on the field and you need elite execution on the field in order to really be able to make sure that you’re getting this done, particularly from the IQ side of things. And so, the Saints are at a good place to start, but we got to see what happens when they’re actually asked to go out there and execute this defense. So, you can be a little bit more vulnerable to some specific route combinations, those that are built specifically to try to challenge what it is that you’re doing in this coverage. Right? I want to push three receivers into two coverage players overlapping zones. And so I need to line them up a certain way at the beginning of the snap. I need to attack I need them to attack their routes with a certain level of ferocity up to a certain point before they make their breaks on what their actual routes are going to be and get out of their breaks and all these other things. I want to challenge the rules of that defense and I want to push and stress and create conflict for those players. If there’s a good offensive play caller that’s got a very good quarterback that can read and decipher what’s going on, Buffalo’s going to be a big challenge. I’ll tell you that right now. When it comes to week three in Buffalo or week four in Buffalo, week four in Buffalo, um that’s going to be a big challenge for New Orleans. So, that’s going to be where the sort of biggest pitfall ends up being when it comes to this. The other side of it is that it’s complex. It’s a lot to learn. You remember back in the day, the Saints had to simplify their defense at one point in order to be able to get sort of the defense back on track and that was Dennis Allen’s defense which was complex and there’s going to be a lot of complexities to this Brandon Staley defense as well as we’ve already kind of highlighted in today’s episode. And so with those complexities comes the opportunity for a lapse. And so the big thing to know is that big plays are still going to happen. The details become how often are those big plays happening? at what point in the game and when what under which game situations are those big plays happening and how do you limit those big plays, but you should still expect the big plays to happen because there are going to be times where you end up with a blown coverage running this system running this scheme. If you have a safety come out to tie their shoe on one play and a backup’s got to go in, that’s a major ripple effect. Same thing for a corner. If you have injuries at the quarterback position like the Saints have consistently had over the course of the past few years, that’s going to create some vulnerabilities in terms of what you’re doing. I want to go back to the coaching thing for a moment because I cannot stress how important coaching is. So, we discussed kind of the onfield pitfalls, but the vulnerabilities in terms of the cracks this can expose in coaching staffs is also very much present. And I feel very confident when it comes to Brandon Staley leading this. Even in Brandon Staley’s quote unquote worst days with the Los Angeles Chargers, this coverage worked for them and it was still praised as as a thing. So what I want to highlight is think about the names of the people that have coached this defense, most notably Big Fangio, Nick Sabin, Bill Bich, right? A version of this kind of defense, right? Their own versions of it. Brandon Sy will have his own version of it as well. Um, not everybody runs this scheme out of 43. Everybody runs it out of three, four, like there’s all these things that are always going to be nuancy and different when it comes to it. So, what I want to highlight is those are great coach names that have found success with this defense. However, the defense did not make the coach, right? The defense did not make Nick Sabin, Nick Saven. The defense did not make Bill Bichc, Bill Bich did not make Vic Fangio, Vick Fangio. Vic Fangio made the defense the defense. Bill Bichc made the defense a defense. Nick Sin made the defense defense. Right? So, it’s not just you run this defense and then you’re successful. The right coach has to run this defense and the right coach has to know when to get away from this defense sometimes, right? In the red zone, go man coverage, right? In certain situations, go zone coverage. You still have to mix it up. That’s one of the great things about that’s one of the other great things about zone match defense is that they’re really easy. Not easy, but disguise becomes uh a little bit more accessible to you, right? You got to work to disguise it, but the accessibility of disguise becomes it gets a little bit more elevated in this defense as well. All right, there you go. Almost everything you need to know about the zone match defense will be covering this a lot more as we move forward as well. Let’s get to a couple of other fun storylines today. Leel Collins says he’s been having some conversations with Kell Moore. We got that coming up for you next as we continue on with today’s episode of Locked on Saints, part of Lockdown Podcast Network, your team every day. Let’s get it. Who that Asian Leel Collins 11year or going into his 11th year NFL veteran, former LSU Tiger offensive lineman, has hinted to having some conversations with New Orleans Saints head coach Kell Moore and has even gone so far as to tease a potential signing that would land him in New Orleans. I want to tell you first of all why I think that would be a great move by the New Orleans Saints and then I’ll tell you where this is all coming from. I want to be clear there’s no impending situation here. This isn’t something that like we feel like oh this is happening or whatever. This is good conversation that could potentially be happening and could potentially lead to something. So just to set the expectation of what this this is. But I do think that if the Saints truly have the opportunity to sign Lel Collins, if Lel Collins is truly interested on joining a team on a one-year deal, and if Lel Collins is 100% healthy, so those three things required, if those three prerequisites, if you will, are checked off, I think signing would be a great move by New Orleans. Why? Not because I think you’re signing him to be a starter at 31 or 32 years old. I think your starting five is set. You know who’s going to be there? Kelvin Banks Jr., Trevor Penning, Eric McCoy, Caesar Ruiz, and then Tali Flang. That’s your left tackle all the way down to right tackle. I think that’s your starting lineup. But I do think that there’s value in adding more experience and adding more versatility and adding more depth to your offensive line. Saints have already started doing this, right? They signed Dylan Raidens, brought him in, experienced player that can move around and play a different couple of different positions. 15 game starter last year. They signed Will Clap, who’s been in the system, not in the system, but has been here to in New Orleans before, is a Louisiana guy, is a New Orleans guy, um, is somebody that can play multiple positions and that brings experience. And so I think a guy like Lel Collins who checks all those same boxes as well and knows how to get it from the mud as an undrafted free agent that entered the league and became a starter and then went on to sign another big deal and all those other things. We’ll catalog his career here in just a moment, but I think it would be a good move because I think that it lessens the drop off, the severe and major drop off that the Saints experienced particularly on the interior of the offensive line last year. Yeah, they got 17 games out of Trevor Penning and Tales Fong at left at right tackle and left tackle or left tackle and right tackle respect or nope, right tackle, left tackle, respectively. Um, but on the interior of the offensive line, they had to go to their backups, they had to go to the backups backups, and in some cases, they had to go to the backups backups backups. signed guys on Tuesday to play on Sunday in in one case. And so I think that for New Orleans, the signing of Lel Collins would be a smart move. It would be a pragmatic move. Does he make the roster? Who knows? Can he help you during training camp? Absolutely. He gives you another depth play. Saints tried to do something similar to this with uh Trey Turner years ago. You do it again here with Lel Collins. Things didn’t go great for Trey Turner, of course. Had the injury the first day of practice. hope that wouldn’t be the case with Leel Collins, of course. But I do think that what he would bring to you with experience and bringing to the depth of your team as a potential on your 90man roster during training camp is invaluable. He helps make your young players better. He helps to challenge your mid-level players and push them in terms of their development. And he provides you good depth behind your starting players. if a starting player has got a day or a starting player needs a day or whatever that might be and he’s got the versatility to man multiple positions in the meanwhile. So, I do truly think that signing a guy like Leel Collins and signing Leel Collins specifically would make a lot of sense. Yes, he’s an LSU Tiger. Yes, he’s a Baton Rouge native. Yes, he’s from the state of Louisiana. I think all those things also check boxes. I think the Saints have shown you that they care about that. Bringing guys like Devon Godshaw, Will Clap, Foster Maro, Tyron Matthew, Justin Reed, all back to the great state of Louisiana. I think that that’s something where there’s some value when it comes to connecting with the community, rebuilding the connection between the fan base and the team. I think all that has value. Do you sign him just because of that? No. But you do sign him because he makes your death better. You do sign him because it’s a training camp signing at worst. There’s no risk here. I do think that it makes sense. Require those three things, right? The interest from one side to the other, right? the interest of the Saints, the interest from Leel Collins, the willingness to join in on a one-year deal, and being 100% healthy. So, here’s how this all came about. Lael Collins joined our good friend Matt Mccona, host a lot on LSU podcast. Please go subscribe, go check him out. Um, who also hosts, of course, after further review on 1045 ESPN radio Baton Rouge, who of course powers Louisiana.net, where you can find like four articles a day from me, by the way, on the New Orleans Saint. Uh, so he joins Matt MCone and basically says like, “Hey, I’ve been having these conversations with Kell Moore.” And then, you know, hey, here’s this opportunity. Uh, you know, maybe it’ll happen, maybe it won’t. We’ll see. You know, he kind of just teased it, right? Like I said, nothing impending or anything like that. He also mentioned the idea of potentially going back to Dallas. He still lives in Dallas, so he could always go back to Dallas. But this is a guy that joined the NFL as an undrafted free agent 2015. Was with Dallas for a little while until he got that three-year contract in Cincinnati. Then he went over to Cincinnati. Things didn’t go great in Cincinnati. Things rarely go great in Cincinnati as you can presently see. Uh then he went back to Dallas and then he spent last year on the Buffalo Bills training uh practice squad, excuse me, and never really got back to full health during that time, but he says he’s 100% healthy now. And so we’ll see where things go. But he mentioned like, hey, I’m having some conversations with Kell. And by the way, the reason that he knows Kell Moore is so interesting, too, because yeah, they over overlapped with the Dallas Cowboys, but it’s way more than that. That’s one of the most unique player to coach connections I’ve ever heard. They start off as teammates 2015. They operated on the second unit in practice together. Lel Collins was blocking for Kell Moore and then Kell Moore as Lel Collins eventually moved up to being a starter. Kell Moore was moving over to coaching. He became the quarterback coach. He became the offensive coordinator in 2019 of the Dallas Cowboys. And so he was Lel Collins offensive coordinator for a couple years after being his quarterback. and then now the relationship is head coach free agent and could potentially be head coach offensive lineman as we move forward. Really, really interesting connections there. So, just something to watch for. Nothing impending, but I think it would be a wise move. All right, let’s close everything out today with a look at the Saints and what they’ve done. The new helmet, the new helmet’s excellent. White shiny gold floor dee gold strip as the center strip with the inset floor is on the inside, black speckles throughout, and the gold face mask, which is so fire. Excellent. gonna be worn almost exclusively or or maybe just exclusively with the color rush uniforms and they’re going to look so good. I think they should come out week one and wear them. If you haven’t seen it yet, go and find the Saints social media, Louisiana Sports.net. We got it for you over there. You can find it. It looks so good. Home run for the New Orleans Saints after the 2022 helmet release. Excellent, excellent stuff there. All right, coming up in tomorrow’s episode, want to continue to break down this new defense and why the 3-4 defense elevates pass rushers. We got that coming up for you on tomorrow’s show. 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The New Orleans Saints are shifting to a zone match coverage system, potentially revitalizing their defense’s playmaking ability. With familiarity among players like Kool-Aid McKinstry, Alontae Taylor and Quincy Jones, this new scheme, implemented by defensive coordinator Brandon Staley, combines elements of man and zone coverage to keep defenders’ eyes on the quarterback.

Why signing offensive lineman La’el Collins, exploring is a good idea and and how it could bolster the Saints’ offensive line depth. How Kellen Moore’s ineresting connection with Collins could help.

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