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Oct 20, 2020
11:28:28am
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Here is the KSL article - lots of good stuff
"It was a coverage we planned on running a lot. We strayed away from it, and then came back to it, and it worked really well," said safety Zayne Anderson, the former Stansbury High standout who moved back from linebacker to free safety this season. "It was my first time running that coverage in my time at BYU, and I think it was really fun.

"We have capable guys out there who can play man. I've got all the faith in the corners and nickels … as a free safety, I can trust those guys. I think the coaches see that, too."

BYU coaches didn't move to the new coverage without any preparation, of course. But after playing mostly zone defense in the first four games of the season, the shift to man-coverage was just that — a change.

Fortunately, they also had the personnel for it — like Chris Wilcox, the 6-foot-2, 195-pound senior from Fontana, California, who redshirted the 2019 season with an injury and has played in every game as the Cougars' lockdown cornerback on the left sideline.

"They told us at the beginning of the week that we were going to do some man," Wilcox said. "I know we've been playing a lot of zone. But going into halftime, I knew we were going to play a lot of man. I guess It kind of worked out for us."

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