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RPO Read Screen

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Play diagram for RPO Read Screen from Shotgun Trips in Madden 27

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Breakdown

RPO Read Screen out of Shotgun Trips shows an RB read handoff up the middle with the offensive line blocking down for run action, while the trips receiver at the bottom releases quickly to set up a screen with a blocker in front of him. The lone isolated receiver on the outside runs a vertical release straight upfield as a pure alert route if the defense sells out on the screen or run fit. This is a true run pass option: the QB reads the flow of the second level defenders (linebackers and slot corner) to decide between the give, the screen to the trips side, or the go alert on the backside, making it effective against both aggressive run blitzes and sell out zone drops.

Defensive Reads

Watch the mike linebacker at the snap, if he crashes hard downhill on run flow that is your green light to pull and throw the screen Key the slot cornerback over the trips side, if he sits flat footed or bites on the blocker he is likely getting beat on the screen release Check the backside cornerback alignment before the snap, soft coverage or a deep half safety shell signals the vertical alert route can be taken away easily This concept struggles against disciplined zone defenses that keep linebackers square and read through to the screen blocker instead of flowing hard to the run fake Man coverage with no safety help over the top on the backside vertical is the shell that gets exposed most often, especially if the user does not spy the RB

Usage Tips

Presnap identify whether the defense is stacking the box or showing two high safeties, since a light box favors the run read and a crashing linebacker favors pulling the screen

Use the vertical alert on the backside as your answer against press man coverage or when a corner cheats down to jump the screen

Hot route the blocker in front of the screen to adjust his path if you see a user defender lurking in that lane

Call this on early downs in run heavy personnel to keep the defense honest, then pair it with RPO Alert Screen or RPO Base Alert Bubble later in the drive so defenders cannot key the same look

Save the backside go route as a shot play answer on third and long when defenses drop extra players into underneath zones expecting the screen

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