The Essential Smart Football by Brown Chris B

Author:Brown, Chris B. [Brown, Chris B.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-05-23T00:00:00+00:00

A perfect example of Cruz excelling in a run-and-shoot play this season came in Week 3 against the Eagles. On third-and-two, Gilbride called an old staple—the Switch concept. At the snap, the inside receiver, Cruz, and the outside receiver, Hakeem Nicks, were to switch their releases by crisscrossing past each other. But that’s just where the fun begins. Each receiver still had multiple decisions to make. Nicks’s job was to run an inside “seam read” route. Depending on how the defense played him, Nicks might go vertical or he might break across the field. Cruz’s first responsibility was to get deep, but if the defense played him over the top to take away the deep ball, his job was to stop and look for a pass in the open space. On the play, the Eagles blitzed and Cruz found an open spot in the defense and waited. Manning found him, and seventy-four yards and several broken tackles later, the Giants had a touchdown.

The following image is an actual page from Coughlin and Gilbride’s playbook with the Jaguars, showing how they ran the old switch in modern football with a tight end.

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