All About Never Taking Plays Off in Football

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"VINCENTJAMAL: I'm Vincent on behalf of Expert Village. Now, the importance of the decoy route, once again, is to make sure that everything looks the same. So we're going to run the same route, but we're going to do this as if Chris were really just taking the play off because he knows he's not getting the ball. So go ahead hike in full speed. Set, go. It's got no pop to it; it's got no zip. And if Brian is the defender that I think he is--he's an intelligent guy--he's going to know that this ball is going nowhere near him and that Chris is essentially just being a body taking the play off. So let's go ahead and run it back in full speed like you actually are running it. Set, go. You've gotta have that pop. You've gotta be able to sell to the defender and everybody else on the field that you are a legitimate threat each time that that ball is coming. So let's go ahead and run--let's go ahead and run a post route. But once you get to your break, kind of just slack it off. Set, go. Now the ball is coming but, you know, he's not looking, his hands are barely up, he's not even really on the angle or the depth that he should be at. So it's very important that you run every route as if you are getting the ball."