Sadly, I agree with you and it's sad.
Year after year we get all these new features and OFFENSIVE plays in our playbooks, while defensive fundamentals, playbooks, and fronts get left behind.
Most teams run split Field coverage these days not the Seattle Cover 3 of 2012. But it's impossible to run Split Field without these critical checks.
I've done all I can do, even sent the latest of MANY links to provide the knowledge to show them how much is missing from match and split Field coverage. But to no avail.
And the Defensive fronts, fughedaboutit...most teams run at least some form of the Nickel Overload front these days to counter Zone Runs out of spread formations. I know for a fact the Niners have ran it since 2017, that's SEVEN years.
Yet and still...only a few teams have it to date.
So yeah, defense has been getting the short end of the stick for awhile. Starting to understand why most users don't want to run any "real" defense, cause we're really not able to most of the time.
I'm trying not to be overly critical, but when you lay the info out there for all to see and get the same results...it's pretty frustrating.
Get a Saban or Fangio disciple on staff, and they'll point those things out in 5 minutes.
