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<blockquote data-quote="stylee" data-source="post: 34648" data-attributes="member: 882"><p>There's a few angles to look at with the "AB to the flats" thing. </p><p></p><p>Firstly, are we talking about a playaction concept or a non-playaction concept? </p><p></p><p>Secondly, I think one of the main things is that you don't account for all the defenders, even if you beat the OLB on the out/flat. That is, there's still a free safety running the alley in a Cover 1 scheme, a strong safety hitting the flats in a Cover 3 scheme, and a cornerback sitting there waiting v. a Cover 2 scheme. </p><p></p><p>With a triple option play, or a rocket toss, or a double option, you've got linemen or ABs or BBs leading the way on these guys. If the concept you're suggesting is just "have the AB beat the OLB to the flat", you're requiring the AB to beat the OLB one-on-one in a pass route, and then to make another defender miss one-on-one. While we may have an expectation that our guys should ALWAYS make their guys miss, that expectation is unrealistic; the defenders' job is to tackle people. </p><p></p><p>I don't think throwing to the AB on a flat route is a universally bad idea. We already have the AB hitting the flat on our "Go" play out of Trips, which I'll diagram later in this thread. I think a playaction flat route to the playside AB could also be quite effective versus man/Cover-1 defenses if we can influence the safety with a post or inside-seam/Switch block by the outside WR. One last application would be as a part of a dropback slant-flat concept: outside WR runs a slant, AB runs a flat, QB reads the flat defender.</p><p></p><p></p><p>The main question is just: what defensive "problem" would X be an answer for that we don't already have an answer(s) for?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="stylee, post: 34648, member: 882"] There's a few angles to look at with the "AB to the flats" thing. Firstly, are we talking about a playaction concept or a non-playaction concept? Secondly, I think one of the main things is that you don't account for all the defenders, even if you beat the OLB on the out/flat. That is, there's still a free safety running the alley in a Cover 1 scheme, a strong safety hitting the flats in a Cover 3 scheme, and a cornerback sitting there waiting v. a Cover 2 scheme. With a triple option play, or a rocket toss, or a double option, you've got linemen or ABs or BBs leading the way on these guys. If the concept you're suggesting is just "have the AB beat the OLB to the flat", you're requiring the AB to beat the OLB one-on-one in a pass route, and then to make another defender miss one-on-one. While we may have an expectation that our guys should ALWAYS make their guys miss, that expectation is unrealistic; the defenders' job is to tackle people. I don't think throwing to the AB on a flat route is a universally bad idea. We already have the AB hitting the flat on our "Go" play out of Trips, which I'll diagram later in this thread. I think a playaction flat route to the playside AB could also be quite effective versus man/Cover-1 defenses if we can influence the safety with a post or inside-seam/Switch block by the outside WR. One last application would be as a part of a dropback slant-flat concept: outside WR runs a slant, AB runs a flat, QB reads the flat defender. The main question is just: what defensive "problem" would X be an answer for that we don't already have an answer(s) for? [/QUOTE]
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