With the NFC West on the line the Seattle Seahawks and the Los Angeles Rams will square off in a rematch of their Week 10 on Sunday. In that game, the Rams emerged victorious as quarterback Jared Goff completed 27 of 37 passes for 302 yards and did not throw an interception.
The Seahawks this season have been a heavy zone coverage team, playing over a mixture of Cover 3, Cover 2 and Cover 4. Many teams utilize Cover 4 when playing the Rams, as a way to neutralize all the pre-snap movement from the Rams offense and take away the bevy of crossing routes that Sean McVay calls for Goff.
In that Week 10 matchup, however, the Rams found ways to make plays against those zone coverage looks, attacking their coverage rules and showing Seattle what they were looking for, but with minor variations. In this video we’ll look at three different ways the Rams attacked Seattle’s zone coverages through the air back in Week 10:
