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Defending Trips Nub: The Shove Call Mechanics

Raiders’ Defensive Coordinator Rob Leonard’s Third Down Secondary Strategy

Trips-Nub formations force defensive conflict by condensing the field and isolating deep over routes against single-high coverage. In this breakdown, we examine how the Las Vegas Raiders use a boundary "Shove" call to adapt weak-rotation Cover 3 into an inverted Cover 2 shell. Learn the exact check and Safety communication rules to bracket vertical routes and neutralize max protection beaters in both Cover 3 and Tampa 2.

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