Kenny F'ing Powers said:
Yep. Good stuff.
It seemed that, against the Packers, they lined Revis up on Cobb until they got into the redzone, and then switched him to Nelson. One glaring exception was the Nelson/McCourty TD, but I could see them treating that drive like a redzone drive (trying to limit yards and tighten up on the final drive of the half).
I could be wrong, though. I was about 12 beers deep by the third quarter.
It seemed to me like they started with Browner on Nelson, Revis on Cobb, but then Ryan was struggling on Adams and they switched to Revis on Nelson, Arrington on Cobb (and presumably Browner on Adams). Later in the game Ryan was back out there and Revis was back on Cobb, so maybe they just switched up the matchups at points, or maybe adjusted based on formations.
PFF only publishes targets, but they have:
Cobb (11 targets): 6 Arrington, 2 Revis, 1 Ryan, 1 Chung, 1 Ninkovich
Adams (10): 7 Ryan, 2 Dennard, 1 Collins
Nelson (6): 5 Revis, 1 Browner
Boykin (2): 1 Arrington
They chart Browner with playing 74 snaps and only being targeted 3 times: the one on Nelson and 2 on Eddie Lacy.
Mark Schofield said:
Great stuff DA.
Re: Revis/Cobb/Nelson, Bowen took a look at the Nelson TD. Puts a lot of it on McCourty, both pre-snap alignment and his route to the ballcarrier.
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2285009-tale-of-the-tape-for-nfl-week-13
Yeah, I think that was mostly on McCourty, too. As far as pre-snap alignment, I wonder how much is McCourty and how much is the coaching staff dictating that, playing him really conservative off the ball to compensate for only having one deep safety. They definitely underestimated Nelson's speed - that dude is fast.