If you plan on adding the Shoot Route as a part of your offense, I would suggest adding the Texas Route (Figure 4) to counter ILBs that are hard-chasers in man-coverage. That being said, it is a great counter to the Shoot Route, as the stem can be taught identically. ![]() TEXAS/ANGLE ROUTEįull disclosure, this is a concept that we have had difficulty implementing into our offense. It is an exciting route to run versus man-to-man teams, especially on the goal line, when defensive backs are chasing receivers running inside-breaking routes. You can also use the route with receivers setting picks on linebackers and safeties.ĭue to the fact that the route is thrown at or behind the line of scrimmage, all bets are off in terms of offensive pass interference concerns. This route ties in well with boundary shallows, or a concept trying to get the boundary ILB to vacate his area to run a route behind him. This will enable your quarterback to more easily throw the route, without being concerned with throwing the ball over the top of a defender. In terms of teaching the route (Figure 2), the running back is asked to run directly sideways until he gets outside of the numbers, before getting upfield. If the defensive end is peeling, just let your quarterback know that he is not going to be able to throw the Flare Route, and thank your lucky stars that you have to pass-protect one less defender. This route allows weakside defensive ends to peel off (we actually threw an interception on this route in 2019) because you do not have the room to leave early. We also do not leave early…we begin the route when the ball is snapped. Like I mentioned above, most people will find this to be the same as Swing, but again, I want clarify in all of our discussions that Flare means that we are running the route into the boundary. It enables you to get the fourth receiver into the same side of a concept without giving it away with your pre-snap alignment. This route works well from a 3×1 look versus teams that play 2-High. If he is in man, he must vacate his base alignment, as he is unable to get to our running back if he is coached to wait until the ball is snapped to begin chasing. In earlier years of swinging our running back, defensive ends would peel off and create difficult throws for our quarterbacks.Īnother major piece that has influenced us to leave early, is that it forces the field-side inside linebacker to show us if they are in zone or man coverage in the pre-snap. The big difference between the two, is that we release before the ball is snapped when running the Swing Route to the field (Figure 1). We want to make sure we differentiate between the running back routes going to the boundary and ones that go to the field, so when the kids are on the sidelines on Friday nights, there is no confusion within our discussion.įor us, Swing means to the field, and Flare, which will be discussed next, tells them to go to the boundary. We refer to this pass route as a Swing Route, but only when calling it to the field. This verbiage simply fits into our terminology better than others. I will refer to each route in terms of what we call them, but you or other coaches may very well call them something different. Within our offense, we started with check-downs and screens, but this article will discuss some of the newer ideas, how they are run, and reasons you may want to add them as part of your offensive scheme. If I was tech-savvy enough to put the hand-slapping-face emoji into this article to explain what I thought about myself at that moment, I would. This got me thinking about high school football, and how we as coaches put our best player at running back, yet do not take advantage of opportunities to get him out in space to create explosive plays. ![]() I will not get his quote exactly right, but his main idea was that the offensive player that gets lost by the defense in the passing game the most is the running back. During a recent clinic speech on running back routes from Steve Sarkisian, he made a comment that cleared the fog from my mind in terms of how important it is to get your running back involved in the passing game.
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