The Kansas City Chiefs and Tampa Bay Buccaneers got to the Super Bowl using a similar strategy in the secondary. Their cornerbacks played press coverage and got physical with receivers, trying to disrupt routes and timing in hopes of slowing down the opposing passing game. “There’s a couple of ways you can play football,” Bucs cornerbacks coach Kevin Ross said. “You can play football, lay back and let the receivers go where they want to go.
Or you can put your hands on them and try to take the timing off of some routes. We choose to do the latter for the most part and go from there.” The Chiefs like to do the same and whether either team will be able to do that on Sunday will depend in large part on how closely the officials call the game