WEEK 2 - Bengals Quarterback Carson Palmer -Ingles

Sept. 16, 2009

You mentioned on Sunday that they played that deep cover-2. What percentage of the time do those defenses play that coverage against you?
“Quite a bit. It’s a coverage we’re used to seeing with Chad (Ochocinco). It’s a coverage that Larry Fitzgerald, Chad (Ochocinco), T.O. and Calvin Johnson see typically a good majority of the time.”

In that coverage, you probably want to hit the underneath stuff and have those safeties come up, right?
“In a perfect world, you just run the ball at that side. But the defense also understands that it’s a weakness of the defense, too. They try to do different stunts and schemes to try to slow you down that way. The best thing to do is, if you’re not running the ball, to get the ball to other guys to make them come out of a double coverage situation to worry about other offensive players. If it’s your tight end, your slot receiver, your strong-side receiver, try to get the ball and spread the ball around a little bit more and make them play a little more true to the rest of the receivers and not so much focus the defense around Chad (Ochocinco)”.

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