Go High, Go Low - Attacking Coverages with High-Low Route Concepts

Offensive team “tempo” has pushed its way into the vocabularies of coaches at all levels of football. The emphasis on playing fast, wearing down the defense and running a high volume of plays has become a key aspect in today’s spread offenses. One primary characteristic of high tempo offenses is their reliance on a core set of simple, yet effective, pass game concepts.

The “high – low” concept is a staple of many spread offenses. Our version of the “high-low” features a pivot, with a deep dig over the top of it. We have also discovered that using some auxiliary route structures related to the basic pivot/dig combo has yielded two positive results. First, it has provided effective counters to the pivot-dig concept, thus keeping defenses off balance. The auxiliary route structures also creates horizontal stretch versus both ma....The full article can only be seen by subscribers.
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