The Drive Concept
The Drive Concept does an excellent job at creating isolations in man coverage for three receivers running pass routes. Below, we show how like to run this concept against Cover 2 Man coverage.
The drive (drag) route ran by the receiver is an excellent pass route in itself to beat man coverage. Having two other pass routes that also beat man coverage doesn’t hurt either. For this example we use the Singleback Back Flip Trips Drive from the Giants playbook. The FL (B) is running the drive (drag) route, the SL (A) is running a dig, and the TE (RB) is running a deep post. All three of these pass routes can beat all types of man coverage schemes.
In the screen shot above the defensive coverage called is Cover 2 Man.
Singleback Flip Trips Drive has the FL sent in auto motion. We prefer not to have him go in motion, so we hot route him a drag route.
We are going to add one more element to the play. We are going to hot route the RB (Y) on a slant out. He gives us an another option to look for. One of the reasons we hot route the RB on the slant out is so he clears the LB out of the middle. If the RB was to stay in and pass block, the LB would spy the QB. This would make it harder to pass to the receivers over the middle.
Once the ball is snapped, the FL comes across the middle. Look at him first if a blitz is called.
The second receiver we look to throw to is the RB. Notice once he makes his cut, he generally gets some separation from the defender covering him.
If we decide not to throw to the FL or RB we can look to the SL on the dig or the TE on the post.
Both of these routes are very effective against man coverage as long we have time.
In the screen shot above, we throw to the SL over the middle. We make the catch for a 13 yard pick up.
If you like feel the defense is going bring the heat, then you may want to leave the RB into pass block. The Drive Concept also works against zone coverage. Watch to see where the linebackers drop back in coverage. If they drop back to take away the dig route ran by the SL, then look for the FL underneath. If the defense plays Cover 2 Zone coverage, look to throw to the TE on the post.
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