Playing the spread

We have locked up on the backside and played cover 2 on the trips side like Lou with success.
I like to play man whenever possible, but when I can't, especially when I'm worried about the run, we play some kind of cover 2 and find a way to get 9 in the box if at all possible.

I am not sure if I am thinking what you already said Lou, but what do you think about facing double twins formations where you could see some speed option, and you can't play man for whatever reason. Do you always have the corner play the flat and the S deep half? Last year we switched up the responsibilities with pretty good success, but it leaves you very vulerable deep. We actually funneled #2 outside to the deep half corner. It is pretty scary vs the pass, but I really liked it vs the run. We could easily man up as a change when I felt we were getting manhandled, but I was wondering if there was a better way to run the C2?

Seems sound Lou. Thanks for the reply.

Don't forget also you can play 2 by showing 4 and vice versa. We are a Rotating coverage team as well and play a spread gun team that runs the option and the zone read. We got away with playing a lot of 2 but rushing 5 and dropping 4 underneath. We would initially engage the inside recievers with our OLBs to give the ILBs time to get to the curl. The OLB then had the opportunity to rush from the edge and force a quicker thow. Our Corners would spin down late and funnel the outside reciever inside keeping their belly button inside and covering the flat. The only problem with this is if they run a lot of digs or deep in cuts, but this team really seemed to want to attack the curl and the deep corner. We also played our normal Strong/Weak Cover 3 by spinning either safety through the curl to the flat and dropping our backside OLB to the opposite Flat. We also mixed in our double robber (spinning both safeties and playing 2 over top) against downs they tended to run option or zone. We held this team to 121 yards of total offense but lost close in the 4th quarter. They were averaging 400+ yards a game and 37 points per game.