Beat Cover 2

None better than the base smash! #1 receiver runs 7 yd hitch, #2 receiver runs corner route at 12-18 yds depending upon how quick the safety rolls over.

We also had great luck with two WR's (one on either side) running mirror 18 yd post corner routes out of the pro with "I" backs. Receiver runs 10 yds down at outside shoulder of defender, takes 3 full steps inside, then back out with 5 yds upfield aiming point (18 yd total). Quarterback must know if safety rolls over quick, he will drill the ball as the receiver breaks back across defender's face who turns route into deep out. He normally will throw it while the safety is rolling and receiver has broken behind defender on the corner stem.

Coach Easton-TIGER ONE

HERMANN,

Jr's suggestion of sending 3 deep against cover two is sound. Now you know why in my 3 x 2 we read cover 2, often times QB will audible to a route sending all 5 receiver's running deep verticals. If you think 3 deep messes them up, send 5 and watch them scramble!

Coach Easton-TIGER ONE

Hey Bill,

Where did that name for the smash CHINA come from anyway, do you know?

Coach Easton-TIGER ONE

HEY JR,

If you will instill STRICT ROUTE DISCIPLINE IN YOUR RECEIVER'S FROM THE GIT GO, IT WILL ELIMINATE 99.9 % OF YOUR PROBLEMS. The most prevelant problem on the HS level is to not have the guys run routes in the pattern that will draw more defenders to one area, in other words run their routes to close together. Now, to be certain you will see in my book how we run fairly close together when flooding a zone, but the guys are preached to daily about not getting TOO CLOSE TO ONE ANOTHER. The QB must be able to throw the ball with accuracy, no doubt about it.

Coach Easton-TIGER ONE

Thanks, coach.

Like ALL terms - "China" & "Smash" are just figments of SOMEONE'S imagination!

NCAA route with a #2 (slot or TE) running a seam out of a trips.

Nothing beats the old school smash route but we had a lot of success running a variation of it where #1 Runs a 5yd out and #2 runs the corner. Another route we had success with is have #1 run vertical with an outside release and have #2 run a speed out into the flats. If CB follows the flats will be wide open and if CB sits you can hit #1 before the safety gets over top

Smash is good against people who play two the wrong way and just sit their corners in the flat, however if you play a team that runs two correctly and sifts the corner back to the "hole" you will throw alot of picks to the corner on the post. Thats something to be very aware of in film study and be sure your QB sees him because its a vision problem at times.

USC runs smash as a cov.3 beater and not a cov.2 beater, they see exclusivly corners that sift. Im not exactly sure how they justify it as a cov.3 beater never got the chance to ask.

Agreed. That is why I don't really like three verticals against it. The corner on the side with the two vertical routes should bail with the outside vertical and the seam vertical runs right in to the safety. The positive here for the offense is that you can put a back in the flat and he is one on one with a backer, I've found that is often a good matchup.