I remember that pass defense was always zone defense.

In the most recent developer chat the comment was made by oriole_fan, "On defense you can specify which LB position you want to be in cover, who to cover, and how often you want that position to blitz."

that "who to cover" comment is the one that Im asking about? Is there now man-to-man? or at least a man-to-man type component where we can specify a defensive player to factor into the calculation when the ball is thrown to a specific offensive player.

ideas?

IMO:

During season 1 of Beta, I asked in the forums about this and Norbert said it was man coverage.  I would dig up the post, but Beta forum only has 3 pages right now and all the posts are current.  In his response, he went on to describe how there were exceptions, and/or how it was man in paticular zones, and the definitive answer concerning man/zone was sort of lost, at least for me anyway.  He never gave a clear answer about safeties, but I am pretty sure linebackers can be assigned to cover certain players, although Harris may be right about how that works concerning the depth of the opposing teams play regarding that player.      

Ok, I'll submit a question regarding this topic for the upcoming developer chat.