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Breakdown
Corner Strike from Singleback Doubles is a two-way go concept built to attack the deep outside quarters of the field. To the boundary, the outside receiver runs a corner route while the slot receiver clears underneath with an out route to the flat, and to the field side the outside receiver runs a mirrored corner route with the slot running a shallow drag away from the concept. The HB releases up the middle on a check release or seam read, giving the quarterback a built-in checkdown if both corners are blanketed. This is a man beater at its core, using the corner routes to sit down in the honey hole against Cover 3 or press man leverage, with the primary read progressing from the field side corner route to the boundary corner route and finally down to the HB in the middle of the field.
Defensive Reads
Watch the cornerback alignment before the snap since press corners are vulnerable to the corner route stem if your receiver can win off the jam. Read the safety depth and rotation post-snap because a single high safety who bites on run action or drifts late leaves both corner routes open in the honey hole. Beware of Cover 4 or Cover 6 shells with two deep safeties sitting over the top, since they are drawn specifically to close the corner route throwing lanes. Key on user controlled defenders lurking in the flat or underneath zones who can jump the boundary out route or the field side drag if the quarterback holds the ball too long. Recognize blitz packages that bring extra defenders off the edge, since the HB release becomes critical as a hot read against pressure that beats the protection.
Usage Tips
Pre-snap, identify which safety is rotating late because Corner Strike thrives when you can diagnose single high shells before the ball is snapped.
Hot route the backside drag into a deeper crossing route if you are facing zone heavy defenses to give yourself a true zone beater option underneath.
Use this play on second and medium or third and long situations where defenses are more likely to sit in off man or Cover 3 look, since the corner routes need room to develop.
Pair Corner Strike with Four Verticals or Streaks earlier in a drive so defenders start cheating toward the deep middle, opening up the corner route windows on the outside.
If the user drops a linebacker into the deep middle to rob your intermediate crossers, key on the HB release since it becomes your safety valve against that kind of robber coverage.
