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Flood HB Swing

Shotgun·Y Off Trips·11

Swing Flood Pass Play Cover 3 Beater

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Play diagram for Flood HB Swing from Shotgun Y Off Trips in Madden 27

Quick Reference

FormationShotgun

SetY Off Trips

Personnel

111 RB · 1 TE · 3 WR

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Shotgun Mix

Breakdown

Flood HB Swing is a three level flood concept out of Shotgun Y Off Trips designed to attack one side of the field with a deep, intermediate, and short route stacked on top of each other. The backside X runs a corner route away from the flood, while the flood side has a deep out breaking route from the inline TE, a square in from the slot, and the HB releasing on a swing route out of the backfield for a built in checkdown. Blocking is a standard five man protection up front, and the primary read progresses from the deep out to the square in and settles on the HB swing if the flood is capped, making this a strong Cover 3 beater.

Defensive Reads

Presnap, identify single high safety alignment since that confirms Cover 3 and tells you the flood side numbers advantage is live. Watch the flat defender or curl to flat linebacker key on the swing route since a fast trigger there signals a sim blitz or aggressive zone drop. If the cornerback on the flood side sinks deep with the out route, expect the square in to be open underneath in the void. Man coverage with no safety help over the top on the backside X corner route is a green light matchup, especially versus a slower linebacker in coverage. Beware of a user controlled defender sitting in the flood zone or a lurking linebacker jumping the square in route, since that indicates a Cover 3 sky or match zone call designed to take away this exact concept.

Usage Tips

Use this play on early downs or when you diagnose a single high safety look presnap since the flood concept overloads one side of a three deep zone.

Hot route the backside X corner route into a hitch or drag if you need a faster outlet against man coverage since he is isolated on an island.

Rely on the HB swing as your answer against blitz heavy looks since he releases quickly and gives you a built in checkdown versus pressure.

Pair this play with HB Swing Screen or RPO Bubble Y Pop from the same set so defenses have to respect the quick flow to the flood side snap after snap.

Attack zone drops by working high to low, reading the deep out first and settling on the square in if the corner sinks, then checking down to the swing as your last resort.