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Quick Reference
Breakdown
Jet Sweep out of Shotgun U Off Trips is an outside run design built around fast motion to sell speed to the edge before the snap. The diagram shows the motion man taking the handoff and sprinting laterally behind a wall of blockers who wash down the line to seal the edge, with the perimeter blocker climbing to the second level to erase the alley defender. This is a pure run play meant to attack overpursuit and outrun light boxes, and the primary read is the edge: get width fast, read the kick out block on the force defender, then decide whether to bend it upfield off the first sign of leverage.
Defensive Reads
Watch the defensive end and outside linebacker leverage before the snap, if they crash hard down the line on jet motion this play gets erased at the mound. Key the force defender, usually the alley safety or slot corner, since the blocking scheme is designed to kick him out and if he scrapes over the top the ball carrier has to bend it up immediately. This play struggles against scrape exchange linebackers and defenses that spy the jet motion with a linebacker running the arc. Zone coverage shells with quarters or cover 3 that keep the flat defender squatting outside can blow this up before it develops, so look for cornerbacks staying home instead of bailing into their zone. Man coverage teams that lock up receivers and send extra numbers into the box will struggle to defend the edge speed unless they have a spy or contain rusher assigned specifically to the jet motion.
Usage Tips
Use jet motion pre-snap to check if the defense rotates or bumps a linebacker outside, that tells you if they are honoring the sweep. Call this on early downs against defenses that show a light box or a single high safety cheating to the passing strength in Trips. Hot route the backside receiver into a quick screen or bubble read if you like to keep defenses honest, since this set already carries RPO Alert Bubble and RPO Alert X Gift as complements. Pair Jet Sweep with PA Jet Sweep and PA Jet Cross in the same drive so the defense has to respect the outside run before you hit them with the play action shot off the same motion look. Avoid calling this into aggressive fast-flow defenses or heavy edge blitz packages unless you have already set up cutback lanes with Inside Zone or Counter.
