Cover 2 Defense: Cornerbacks

The cover 2 defense is an entirely different beast of a defense. There are certain defensive changes that only wmake sense in its scheme and nothing else. And I had gotten many qustions about the corner back position so thats as good as a place to start. There are two different routes that you could go with your cover 2 corners.

Bump and Run Corner Backs
Bump and Run corner backs is just what it sounds like. In the cover 2 defense you really do rely on a good Bump and Run.

Why?

The corners bump and run slows down the quarterbacks progression reads. Also the bump helps your safeties out by re routing the wide receivers. So the better the bump and run rating the more successful the bump is therefore the more successful the red and blue actions above are.

So who do I put there?
In short you put your best Bump and Run Defensive Backs at the Corner Back position.

"Safety-Corner Backs"
Safety- Corner backs is a term that I use loosely but it refers to any defensive back who has good tackling and block shedding.

Why does that matter and how does it help?

It matters because the corner back position in a cover 2 defense is the FORCE defender. Meaning that they are responsible for outside run contain and their job is to force the ball carrier back inside.

the main idea behind this is that the "corner backs" are heavy players in the run game and your "safeties" are the last players who interact with the run game in cover 2. So wouldn't it make more sense to have better run stuffers the positions where it actually will matter? I think so

Having better block shed "Corners" will greatly improve the chances of them getting to the ball carrier. They will sometimes come in clean on outside runs. Sometimes they will have to fight off of a block from a Wide Receiver (that is where the block shed comes in)

Having better tackling "Corners" will ensure that when they do get to the ball carrier that HE WILL GO DOWN

And if they do have good hit power, when they do come in clean and make a play on a running back that there could be a chance of fumble.