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Quick Reference
Breakdown
HB Toss out of Shotgun Wing Pair is a pure run play that tosses the ball to the HB who attacks the edge, with the play art showing the backfield flare toward the play side while the offensive line and TE wing set the edge with outside zone-style blocking angles. This is not a man or zone beater in the passing sense, it is a perimeter run designed to outflank the defensive edge before second level defenders can flow. The primary read is the HB reading the edge blocks, deciding whether to bounce outside off the wing TE's kickout block or cut it up if the edge gets sealed inside.
Defensive Reads
Watch for a hard edge defender staying home or a scrape exchange linebacker, both of these blow up toss plays before they develop Overpursuit from the play side linebacker or safety is what this play punishes, so pre-snap alignment cheating inside opens the perimeter Nickel and dime fronts with fast flowing linebackers can chase this down before it gets outside, especially if they diagnose toss quickly User the play side outside linebacker or slot corner as the primary defender to force the HB to cut back into traffic Cover 3 or Cover 1 with aggressive edge contain defeats this quickly, while light boxes and zone shells that flow slow to the perimeter are where this hits big
Usage Tips
Call this on early downs against light boxes to take advantage of the extra gap created by the wing alignment
Check the defensive front pre-snap, if you see six or more in the box or a run blitz look, consider audibling to Read Option or RPO Duo Alert Post instead
Use the right stick to manually control the HB's aiming point if the CPU blocking logic misreads the edge defender
Pair this with Power O and Duo earlier in a series to set up the same run action, then hit this toss when the defense starts crashing inside to stop inside zone
Great short yardage changeup on second and short or first and ten to keep defenses honest against a heavy inside run tendency
