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Quick Slants

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Play diagram for Quick Slants from Singleback Ace in Madden 27

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121 RB · 2 TE · 2 WR

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Breakdown

Quick Slants comes out of Singleback Ace with 12 personnel and shows a clean three route quick game concept. Both outside receivers run slants breaking hard to the inside, with the left X running a shallow slant and the right Z running a deeper crossing slant to the opposite side of the field, while the inline TE on the left releases vertically up the seam before angling outside on a corner-breaking route. This is a classic man beater built on picking underneath defenders with the crossing slant traffic, and the primary read progression starts with the near slant on the play side, works to the far slant if the underneath defender jumps the first route, and comes back to the vertical seam breaking outside if both slants are covered.

Defensive Reads

Key the flow of the middle linebacker at the snap, if he sprints to the play side slant, the backside crossing slant will be wide open in the void he vacates. Watch for a user controlled defender sitting in the shallow zone or lurking the crossing routes, this is the primary counter to Quick Slants and will bait a pick six if you force the throw. Press man corners on the outside receivers disrupt the timing of the slants, so if you see press alignment presnap consider hot routing to a fade or working the TE seam instead. Cover 2 with hard flowing safeties can squeeze the seam route from the TE, so account for the safety depth before relying on that third option in your progression. Blitz packages that send extra rushers up the middle open throwing lanes late but shrink your time to read the field, so anticipate the middle read and be ready to reset to the TE seam quickly if the initial slants are jumped.

Usage Tips

Fire this out quickly against Cover 3 and Cover 1 looks since the slants exploit the seams between hard flowing linebackers and off man corners.

Use your presnap read to check corner depth: if you see soft press or a corner shaded outside, the slant window opens instantly for a rhythm throw.

Hot route the backside slant into a flat route against zone heavy defenses to give yourself an easier zone beater option if the linebackers sink into the throwing lanes.

Pair this play with PA Post Cross Shot or PA Boot Roll in your call sheet to keep defenses honest, since both threaten the same underneath areas but attack downfield off similar receiver alignments.

Best used on early downs or third and short, since the quick timing routes get the ball out before pressure arrives and the shallow crossing traffic naturally picks off blitzing linebackers.