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Quick Reference
Breakdown
PA Jet Sweep out of Wildcat Unbalanced sells the jet sweep fake to the motion man before working a three level play-action shot off it. The deep red route pushes vertically up the numbers as a clear out, the two yellow routes work in as crossers underneath at different depths from the opposite side, and the cyan route runs a flat to wheel path along the line of scrimmage away from the fake. This is a play-action shot play built to punish run fits, with the primary read starting on the deep red vertical against single high shells and working down to the yellow crossers if the safety stays deep, using the cyan flat as the checkdown against blitz or aggressive underneath pursuit.
Defensive Reads
Single high man coverage shells are the biggest vulnerability here since the deep red route wins one on one against a corner or safety who bites on the run fake Watch for linebackers cheating toward the jet sweep motion pre-snap, if they flow hard playside on the snap the underneath yellow crossers will be wide open behind them Cover 2 or Cover 4 shells with safeties staying deep can take away the deep red shot and force the quarterback down to the shorter yellow crossers User controlled defenders spying the quarterback or sitting in the shallow zone can jump the underneath yellow crosser route if they diagnose play-action quickly Blitz packages that bring extra defenders off the edge can disrupt the fake and force an early throw to the cyan flat route before routes develop
Usage Tips
Use this from the Wildcat Unbalanced set only after you have run actual Jet Sweep and Power from the same formation to get linebackers flowing hard toward the motion man
Check the safety alignment before the snap, if you see two high safeties cheating toward the motion side the deep red shot has a lane against single coverage on the backside
Hot route the underneath yellow crosser into a sit route versus zone heavy defenses that like to sink linebackers under the crossers
Save this play for early down situations, first and second and short to medium, where defenses are more likely to bite on run action out of Wildcat personnel
Sequence this with the run version of Jet Sweep on back to back snaps so the defense keys run fit discipline and gets frozen by the play-action fake
