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Packers film room: Breaking down the defense’s use of Cover-2 Invert

This season defensive coordinator Joe Barry has successively built of the defense’s success each week and thrown new wrinkles in his personnel and schematic decisions. Knowing the Vikings would be without starting quarterback Kirk Cousins and receiver Adam Thielen, Barry elected to throw some new wrinkles at Vikings backup quarterback Sean Mannion. One way he did this was through the use of a coverage known as “Tampa 2 Invert” or cover-2 invert or cover-2 robber.

Football Outsiders has the Packers ranked as the 12th ranked pass defense in their DVOA efficiency metric, which measures efficiency on a per play basis.