Bunch Combos

I have a few of them, which area of the field are you looking to attack??

We ran Mesh out of it. I've seen quite a few other good ones. BYU ran it quite a bit this season and did some neat things out of it.

The most effective bunch combo we ran this year....#1 on a 4 yd stop...this is a wide turnout route...depth is key. #2, inside stop route at 4 yds...work the ILB zone....#3, 6 yd choice route in between #1 and #3. QB progression...look #1 first, no underneath threat, throw it now. If defender underneath #1, look #3 to #2....usually #3 is the open guy. Hit him a bunch and hit #3 a couple times....got this route from Chuck Long at OK. pdow

The way Coverdale and Robinson explained their set is that they have 3 alignments. I believe one is 3 yards out the other is 7 and the last is 12.

LedgerSko,

You mentioned that C/R have three alignments within the bunch concept (3,7 and 12 yards). What is the purpose? I am sure it's the route combinations, but what are they?

We are going to run the bunch concept a lot more this year and I would like to know the reason behind the alignments.

Do you have any information on the release and how to teach it?

Thanks

Coaches,
I have a great bunch/3 man stack route that I got from Cov. I've got college cuts of it from both 2002 and 2003, and we also ran it a ton this year, with a lot of success. I'd love to trade cut-ups with anyone interested. I also have the route on power point. It is basically a sit-mini curl-arrow combination that is very difficult to cover without being vunerable deep.

I also have an excellent 4 man bunch route I got from Toledo, which we have run for two years. I have cuts from Toledo intermingled with ours. Also on Powerpoint.

email me if you're interested

Coach,
what is the proposed time frame that the book might be available? Also, I just attended the University of Arizona Football Clinic last month and had the opportunity to visit with Mike Canales the O/C. He and I visited about what they did with the trips stacked and quads bunch/stacked while he was at N.C. State. Anyways, in June he is going to be given me so info., route combos and possibly video cut-ups. Once I get this, I will try to get the info to you. I owe you one for the info that you sent me with the bunch and quads info. Would like to talk to you about the trips stacked info. if you have some free time.
Thanks,
Blacksmith

Coach Joe,
This is how the route was given to me, from Coach Coverdale. We ran it the way he taught it to me. It was gold. We ran it either from a three man bunch, 3 man stack, or 4 man diamond, where the fourth man lines up 2 yards directly behind the point man and steps back one step as a fourth option. The description below is from our playbook for the "Spacing" route:

Frontside Inside: ARROW. Attack defender’s outside shoulder, break downhill off 2d/3d step, gain depth. Look for ball quickly!

Frontside Middle: SIT. Push hard INSIDE to a depth of 6, sit down in area vacated by inside linebacker

Frontside Outside: Mini CURL. 1 yard middle receiver. Sprint to 3, make a 4 yard speed break to the void left by the flat defender & drumroll your feet and sit down at 7 yards.

QB: 3-step progression to the Arrow on time. Rip it through his outside shoulder if he gets any clean air at all. If the short defender runs with him, a void should open up for the Post Curl. Be alert of the LB in front of the Post Curl! Backside Seam Read is your 3rd option. By call or game plan, can throw the Corner off 5th step if CB is getting nosy on the Post Curl.

One thing that is great about running this route is that if you get a single on the backside, you always have the option to game plan or audible vs. a good matchup there. Also, we absolutely abused one defense that overplayed the short zones. We ran a dig route on the back side, drawing the safety up, then sent two of the three in the bunch deep and hit them for TDS.

Also, vs. the diamond look, we got four to go out to cover them, one on one backside, a FS and that left 5 in the box. When teams did this we ran QB trap and draw until the cows came home. It definitely was a very good route for us because it opened up so many other things.

If you'd like more info, email me

I should have explained the corner route. It's an adjustment that changes the outside receiver's route to a corner route. You can have him run the same stem as a mini-curl then break it to the corner (deep outside third, flag, etc) if the thirds corner or halves safety is overplaying the short curl.

By trail I mean when a certain route "trails" another route by getting into the void left by defenders.

Examples: The texas concpet in the westcoast offense, the Texas route run by a back or wing (angle route) trails the drag route run by the receiver. If the defenders follow the drag the texas route should be open.

Also the short concept by Coverdale/Robinson can be considered a trail route.

What is the route combo they call Trail like?