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PA Stretch

Singleback·Y Trips·11
Play ActionPass PlayDeep CrossCrosserDigPostFlatPA Zone
Play diagram for PA Stretch from Singleback Y Trips in Madden 27

Quick Reference

FormationSingleback

In 3 playbooks

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Receiver routes

Depth-chart slots are shown as they line up in the base package for this set.

See this play with a team's players
PlayerSideRoute
HB1MiddleFlat
WR3RightDeep Cross
WR1LeftDeep Post
WR2RightDeep In
TE1RightRun Block

Read progression

  1. WR1 left, Deep Post
  2. WR3 right, Deep Cross
  3. WR2 right, Deep In
  4. HB1, FlatCheck-down

Breakdown

PA Stretch out of Singleback Y Trips is a play-action shot play built off outside zone stretch action to sell the run fake before working a deep crosser and a double dig combo. The trips side runs two dig routes stacked at different depths that break inside toward the middle of the field, while the single receiver on the backside runs a deep corner or go route up the numbers, and the checkdown option releases into the flat off the run fake. Your primary read starts with the deep backside corner route on the play fake, then progresses to the shallow dig from the trips side, and finally the flat route as a checkdown against aggressive underneath defenders.

Defensive Reads

Pre-snap, identify if the defense is in a single high shell or two high shell, since single high safeties are more vulnerable to the deep corner route breaking behind them. Watch linebacker depth at the snap, if they crash hard on the stretch fake, the digs from the trips side will open up quickly in the intermediate zone. Beware of Cover 3 defenders sitting on the outside corner route, that route works best against Cover 1 or aggressive man coverage. Man coverage with no safety help over the top gets exposed by the backside corner route, while zone coverage with a deep half safety can undercut it. Watch for user controlled linebackers spying the play action fake, if they stay home instead of biting, the flat route becomes the safer checkdown instead of the dig routes.

Usage Tips

Use this play on early downs when defenses are keying the run to punish linebackers who bite on the outside zone action.

Check the safety alignment pre-snap, if you see a single high safety cheating toward the trips side, take the backside corner route immediately off the play fake.

Hot route the flat route into a shorter option or motion the trips receivers to test man coverage leverage before the snap.

Pair this with HB Stretch and HB Zone Wk Alert Bubble earlier in a series so defenders start respecting the run fake, making the play-action window bigger later in the game.

Look to call this on second and short or first and ten when defenders are stacking the box in run support, since the play punishes linebackers and safeties who step up.

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