Whip/In, Whip/Curl

I understand what Coach Begley is saying, as he probably sees cover #2 in straight zone whereas I see it almost 100% of the time as a combo coverage as man under with the CB's rolled up hard with inside leverage and zone deep with the safties playing deep halves. We have a rule that our QB's release the ball when the CB's come abreast of the receiver, and if in man coverage we are reading our receiver all the way. If in zone, we are reading the CB and not the receiver just as coach Begley asserts. However, as an ex-QB, in my opinion, your reading the whole man and not his hips. I know what the theorys are, but in actuallity, I always had better luck reading the defenders helmet, in relation to my receiver than anything else, and was sure to throw into the void created by the DB, and always away from him. His first read, flat defender is main concern, if that is the ss in cover 2, I agree fully. If not, then I don't agree with that as the first read in almost 99% of pass plays, should always be to locate the free safety in the PSL(FS in cover#2 is backside safety) then the CB's and then the inverts. Then, on the snap your QB has to detemine if they are staying with the PSL look, or stemming to something else that will change the safeties position. The QB always has pretty much in his mind where he is going with the ball in the PSL, or lets say where he wants to go with the ball, and then reduces the read progression to that section of the field and it's defender or receiver, as the case may be. Not just on this particular whip/in route but we read just about all patterns, generally speaking, in the same way.

J.C.Easton