Everyone knows who Lovie Smith is.
The 63-year-old Houston Texans coach built his entire reputation as a defensive guru who deployed the Tampa 2 defense to generate ferocious units as a defensive coordinator for the St. Louis Rams (2001-03), and coach of the Chicago Bears (2004-12) and Tampa Bay Buccaneers (2014-15).
Although NFL offenses and commensurately NFL defenses have changed over the years, Smith doesn’t believe that Cover 2, the main philosophy behind his Tampa 2 defense, will ever go extinct.
