Video: Passing Route Plays

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In football, a variety of passing routes are used to run an offense, including slant routes, button hooks and post routes. Learn passing route plays with tips from a football coach in this free video on football basics.

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Hi my name is Otis St. Clair and I am here today to talk to you about passing route plays. Now every team or every organization has a passing route tree so I'm going to show you the passing route tree and probably show you a couple of routes that you can run with your offense. The passing route tree starts with the wide receiver and goes up like this which would be called the fly route and then off of that we have our branches. The first branch we will draw is a quick out and that runs about 3 to 5 yards and then we have a slant route which is also running about 3 to 5, maybe six yards, going up from there and staying on to the outside we have a deep out, we have what is called a flat route which is running to the flag part of the in zone and then coming off of that and going back to the inside we have a curl which used to be called a butt hook and we would have a post route and then we have what is called an in or square in. These routes also numbered as well. This one is called a one route for the quick out, two for the slant, three for the deep out, four for the in and five for the flat and six for the curl and we have a post corner that I forgot which is the seven route, eight is for the post route and the nine is the flat route. So that is the passing tree. Our even numbers are to the inside with the football being right here so if you call an even number the passing tree, the passing routes are going to the inside so if you call an out route with an odd number you are going to the outside or towards the sidelines. That is your basic simple passing route tree. You can make your play book from this tree right here, run your routes and score touch downs. My name is Otis and that is our passing route plays.

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