Earlier this week, Green Bay Packers cornerback Damarious Randall and Josh Gordon sparred on Twitter after the former boasted that he held the latter to a single catch in a 27-21 victory. However, Randall’s glory was nearly as short-lived as the benching he received earlier this season. The film exposed lapses in coverage despite a lot of help.

Some other quick observations:

Damarious Randall is delusional.

Dom Capers is a coward.

And Deshone Kizer should be shot to the moon on a rocket ship made of Hue Jackson’s bones.

In all seriousness, what the tape revealed shouldn’t come as a shock to anybody. The Packers played a lot of two-high coverage, as several players noted after the game. “I matched him the whole game,” Randall said, “When he was in the slot, we were in zone.” And they played a LOT of Cover 2 and Cover 5 (also known as “2-Man”).

“They went to two guys over the top with guys playing man underneath quite a bit,” Kizer said.

The purpose of two-high defenses is to take the big play away from the offense, which the Packers succeeded in doing, for the most part.

And as Gordon noted on Twitter, there were some…’disadvantages’ that prevented him from getting the ball. After his first quarter touchdown – which came on a post out of the slot against a Cover 2 zone – Gordon was predominantly used on the outside.

The Packers continued to employ Cover 2 looks throughout the game while Hue Jackson continued to ask Gordon to sprint into the honey hole (the small area between a dropping cornerback and the deep-half safety in a Cover 2) for whatever reason.

When Dom Capers strayed away from two-high looks, Josh Gordon did his best to make him pay. On a 1st and 10 play in the second quarter, the Packers find themselves in a Cover 3 against 21 personnel, a defense that puts eight in the box against a grouping that lends itself well to the run. The weakness of a Cover 3 defense is the seam between the deep third defenders. Gordon identifies the coverage well and sits down in the zone’s soft spot 20 yards down the field. Deshone Kizer has all day to throw but elects to check it down to Isaiah Crowell instead. To add insult to injury, Kizer throws behind Crowell.

For all the insistence that Kizer needs better weapons to succeed, he did a pretty poor job of getting the ball to his best receiver. On a 1st and 10 play near midfield with less than a minute to go in the second quarter, Gordon embarrasses Randall and has the deep half safety beat. Unfortunately, his quarterback badly underthrows him. He’s forced to slow up, which allows the safety to cover lost ground.

Not only that, but Kizer doesn’t put the ball toward the sideline, which doesn’t give Gordon much a chance to catch it. In fact, that may be the reason Gordon didn’t draw a defensive pass interference call despite egregious contact. Had Kizer thrown this ball with touch on it, it’s likely a touchdown.

And while this is neither here nor there, Gordon could have had another touchdown had Kizer not locked onto his first read (Corey Coleman) on a late third-quarter touchdown.

All told, Gordon probably should have had 100-plus yards and 2-plus TDs, in spite of being heavily schemed against. Nevertheless, three catches for 69 yards and a touchdown isn’t a bad day at the office considering all his disadvantages.

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