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Mtn WR Zone

Shotgun·Y Off Trips Wk·11

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Quick Reference

FormationShotgun

SetY Off Trips Wk

Personnel

111 RB · 1 TE · 3 WR

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Breakdown

Mtn WR Zone is a zone beater out of the Shotgun Y Off Trips Wk set that pairs a mountain (staggered vertical) route concept from the trips side with a boundary WR isolation route designed to attack soft spots in zone coverage. The three receiver stack on the trips side works high low low against the flat and hook zones while the backside WR runs a zone breaking route to hold the corner. The primary read starts with the mountain concept from inside out, working from the deepest vertical threat down to the shallow settle route based on linebacker and safety rotation, then working to the backside isolation route if the trips side is capped.

Defensive Reads

Pre snap identify whether the defense is showing a 2 high shell or rolling to single high, since Mtn WR Zone thrives against 2 high split zone shells with soft flat defenders. Post snap track the flat defender on the trips side, if he sinks too deep chasing the vertical stack the shallow settle route will sit wide open underneath. Watch for a user controlled defender lurking in the shallow zone or spying the quarterback, this play struggles if the user sits the underneath window and eliminates the easy completion. Identify linebacker depth at the snap, if the backers show tight zone drops with no depth the deep portion of the mountain concept will have soft coverage over the top. Cover 3 with an aggressive underneath robber can shut this down quickly, so have a hot route ready to convert the shallow route into a quick out if you see the robber creeping into the throwing lane.

Usage Tips

Check the safety alignment before the snap, if you see two high safeties bail into a split zone shell this play punishes the seams between the flat and curl defenders on the trips side.

Use the mountain stack to layer your read from deep to shallow, resist the urge to jump straight to the underneath route and let the coverage declare itself first.

Against man coverage look immediately to the backside isolation route since Mtn WR Zone was built to exploit zone drops, not to beat man leverage.

Pair this call with Mtn PA Portland or Mtn Y Lead Read Option earlier in a series so the defense respects the run and play action out of the same look before you hit them with this pure zone concept.

On third and medium this is a strong chain move after running Inside Zone or Same Side Zone out of the same personnel, since it keeps the defense honest to the run and opens the intermediate zone windows.