Tight Red Zone High Low With Benefits
When you have 20 yards or less to work with there is not a lot of room for a high low pass game combination. The back of the end zone is a powerful and trusted defender for the defensive secondary. Welcome to the tight red zone.
This does not mean that there is not room for some creativity. You can only throw so many fades up to your tallest receiver and call it coaching.
Like a lot of things with football, the best way to create a high low in the tight red zone is to do it from a formation that looks nothing like a typical 2×2 formation commonly used to run high lows. Our tight red zone play today is out of Bunch formation.
Bunch formation can put a little doubt in a defenses mind in several ways. Good defenses will be alerting one another to any type of Bunch sets pre-snap because they know they are vulnerable to several things.
Mirrored High Low Pass Concepts Are Rarely Run From A Bunch Set
This formation is designed to pose a threat of a strong side run game. The toss crack run is a favorite of offenses who major in this formation. It also sets itself up for picks and rubs as the three receivers release. When the backside receiver has a tight split, crossing routes are also a concern.
Mirrored high low pass concepts are rarely run from a bunch set. This FirstDown PlayBook tight red zone pass play is an exception. This play offers your quarterback to pick a side based on safety rotation or personnel. It also gives your quarterback a pre-determined target…the pylon.
Also the Z also offers an option that sits right in front of the quarterback. The natural hot route can be a big benefit for the quarterback as well. As you can see there is an answer vs all forms of coverage man or zone. That’s what you need in the tight red zone and this gives it to you.
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