Are you looking for new ways to attack Cover 3? Do you need new ideas because your pass game seems stuck in the mud?
The problem could be how you’re attacking the middle of the field. Many offensive coordinators struggle against Cover 3 because they don’t understand how to manipulate the free safety.
Today’s email is taken directly from our latest release: The Play Caller’s Guide: An Encyclopedia for Attacking Modern Defenses
Attacking Cover 3 with Y Cross
Inside The Surface To Air System, we have an automatic tag system for our Y Cross concept.
Anytime we tag the H back to run a route that leaves the flat area, the tail back will automatically take that flat area. The tail back’s base rule is to work the flat on the back side of the structure. However, when the H back leaves the flat, he will switch to the strong side and execute a flat route. This change will create some serious issues for the defense as it allows us to get four receivers to one side of the structure. The tailback will also turn the protection back to the weak side to add an extra offensive lineman to the weak side for the protection.
The first tag we will utilize is the H back on post tag. This is a route that takes the H back out of the flat and so the tail back will flip the protection and work to the play side flat area of the field. The post route will take the top off the coverage (cause the safety to deepen with the route) and force the free safety to run down the middle of the field. The fade on the outside takes the corner deep as well. That leaves our tight end and tail back to isolate the flat defender to the call side and put him into a high-low read.
As much as possible, we want the flat defender to be isolated with one route above him and one below to make him choose which player to take. The tag system we have put in place allows us to build these sorts of plays very easily without altering the quarterback’s read progression at all.
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