“A lot of fun, a lot of work, a lot of hours spent, and a lot of communication,” Leonard replied when asked about building his coverage scheme. “(Defensive pass game coordinator/DBs coach) Joe Woods, (safeties coach) Matt Robinson and (senior defensive assistant) Al Holcomb have been extremely helpful.
“I’ve challenged the staff as much as anybody. Like, we got to be ahead of how we’re going to be attacked and what our answers will be, as well as this is the teaching process, these are our rules. Okay, well, how would you attack us? Like, if we were the offense, what would you do?
“Having those conversations before they actually happen. And it is my job to set the concepts of this is what we’re going to be, these are the coverages we’re going to play, so on and so forth. But going through the minute details, we’ve done that together.”