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Overview
Wide Y Off Trips takes the standard Shotgun trips look and stretches it, pushing the outside receiver to the numbers while the tight end aligns off the line inside the bunch. That off alignment matters: the Y is free from press coverage and gets a clean release into the intermediate middle, which is why so many of the play art concepts in this set (PA Y Cross, Reload PA Slot Cross, Reload Shallow Cross) attack the hook and curl zones with a receiver who is already two yards into his stem before the defense reacts. On the backside you get a true isolated X, and with the trips side occupying three defenders, you are almost always looking at a single high safety or a bail corner on that island.
Strengths
- RPO Walk Alert Curls and Reload RPO Alert Hitches give you a pre snap alert read that punishes soft zone and single high bail without ever committing the QB to a full dropback, making them elite chain movers on second and medium.
- The off Y alignment beats press man cleanly, so PA Y Cross and Reload Shallow Cross are reliable man beaters against Cover 1 and Cover 0 without needing a motion or hot route to create leverage.
- Trips creates a hard distribution problem for zone: the inside curl or slot cross usually settles right in the vacated hook window against Cover 3, and the flood look stresses the curl or flat defender horizontally.
- HB Power G and RPO Power Alert Bubble share the same gap scheme blocking with a pulling guard, so you can run downhill power out of a spread look and bail to the bubble when the defense walks a defender into the box.
- PA Walk Deep Choice and PA Walk Slot Choice give you option routes off play action, letting a high awareness slot break away from user controlled defenders and read the coverage on the fly.
Weaknesses
- Play action heavy sets are exposed to overload and nano blitz looks. PA Walk Deep Choice and PA Y Cross both hold the QB in the pocket with a five man protection, and A gap pressure gets home before the deep concepts develop.
- The backside X is often left with no help, so a good user can sit on the iso route with a user controlled defender and jump anything short of a fade or corner.
- Only one back and one tight end means limited max protect options. If your opponent is bringing six, you are hot routing the HB to block and losing a route from your combo.
- RPO alert plays leak run blocking when the alert triggers, so if the defense plays a two high shell and takes away the alert, the base handoff runs into an unblocked edge defender.
- Trips concentration on one side means heavy run tendency reads. Consistent HB Power G out of this alignment invites the defense to shade the line and overload the strong side.
Usage Tips
Read the box count pre snap. Five or fewer in the box and a bail corner means take the RPO Power Alert Bubble or HB Power G behind the pulling guard. Six or more and you should be working the alert read on RPO Walk Alert Slant or RPO Walk Glance.
Against single high man, PA Y Cross is your go to. The off tight end wins his release inside and the crossing pattern outruns most man defenders in the second level.
On third and seven to ten, run Reload PA Slot Cross and hot route the backside X to a curl or comeback. You get the crosser as your primary and the iso as a safety valve away from the user.
Use the choice routes on PA Walk Slot Choice against two high shells. The option break sits down against soft zone and breaks out against man, so it functions as a coverage neutral read.
If your opponent is blitzing your interior consistently, audible to RPO Walk Alert Curls and take the quick alert throw. It gets the ball out before the pressure lands and treats the blitz as free yardage.
