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Inside Switch

Pass Play Corner Flood Man Beater Cover 3 Beater Dig Post In Swing

Receiver routes

Depth-chart slots are shown as they line up in the base package for this set.

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Player	Side	Route
HB1	Left	Swing
SLWR	Right	Corner
WR1	Left	Deep In
WR2	Right	Short In
SLWR2	Right	Deep Post

Read progression

SLWR right, Corner
WR1 left, Deep In
WR2 right, Short In or SLWR2 right, Deep Post
HB1 left, SwingCheck-down

Breakdown

Inside Switch is a trips-based route concept out of Shotgun Trips HB Wk that creates a switch release on the boundary side to confuse man coverage while stretching the field on the trips side. The two inside trips receivers cross with a slant and corner combo that picks off defenders, while the outside trips receiver runs an out and the backside single receiver runs a curl into the vacated middle, forming a natural flood look. The HB releases out of the backfield on a wheel route to the flat, giving you a check down option against blitz. Read progression starts with the switch release corner route, moves to the curl sitting down in the middle, then to the out route, and finally to the HB wheel as your outlet.

Defensive Reads

Identify single high safety alignment pre-snap since that tells you the corner route has room to work against Cover 1 or Cover 3. Watch the flat defender on the trips side, if he sits on the out route the switch release corner should be wide open behind him. Key the middle linebacker or nickel defender who has to cover the curl route, if he bites on the crossing action underneath, the quarterback can hit the curl sitting in the void. Against zone coverage such as Cover 3, look for the seam between the flat defender and the deep third corner, that is where the switch release wins against zone drops. Beware of user lurk defenders sitting in the shallow crossing lanes since a heads up defender can jump the slant portion of the switch concept and create a turnover if the timing is late.

Usage Tips

Attack man coverage first since the switch release on the trips side is designed to create natural rubs and separation against man defenders trailing the crossers.

Check the safety depth before the snap, if you see a single high safety cheating toward the trips side, the corner route from the switch concept has a great shot to win over the top.

Hot route the backside curl into a deeper dig if you are facing off man or press coverage without safety help underneath.

Use this play on second and medium to second and long situations where you have room to work the intermediate combo routes without needing a checkdown on early downs.

Pair this with Scissors or Trips Cross earlier in a series so the defense sees crossing patterns and starts jumping switch releases, then come back to Inside Switch to hit the corner route deep once they overcommit underneath.

If the defense shows heavy blitz looks pre-snap, keep the HB wheel as your first read since it releases quickly to the flat and beats most nano blitz packages.