Scissors route?

There are many option you can use.....but VS cover 2 free-release your back into the flat to control the corner. If both the corner and the safety are playing quarters technique we will flatten the corner route and play a hi/lo game with the flat defender and the middle post/dig combo (assuming that backside you are working a dig). This becomes more of a sail route than a corner. Our quarterback must take a picture post sanp of the strong side secondary technique. We will force the corner to cover the flat by always taking it if we have out leveraged the LB.
Keep your post as deep as possible (15 yards) and tell your corner player to run to the grass!

Try this,

Align the 2 receivers approx 7 yds. apart and have the inside rec. run a post-corner and the outside receiver run a post. Most corners will see the inside receiver posting and will lock up on the outside rec.

Note: The inside rec. MUST sell the post before sticking it to the corner. Also, to speed up the outside rec.'s route, tell him to NOT give a not move on his post.

Coach Chad,

We will only run this route if we know we will get 2-deep coverage. It's not a very good route against 3 deep.

What happens if we call the play and they come out in 3 deep? The QB will still go through his progression (front side to backside). If nothing is open (most likely) he'll run or throw it away.

I've actually seen the play work vs. 3 deep. We 1/2 roll our QB away from our playside (the post/post-corner side) on this route. Sometimes the FS will adjust and weave to the side the QB is 1/2 rolling to. The corner stays at home and picks up the post-corner. But the post gets behind the FS because he just doesn't see it coming from the other side of the field.

We teach our receivers NOT to run to a DB after their break, so our outside receiver (post) will not bring it too far inside, avoiding the FS's area.

The route will kind of turn into a skinny post/post-corner. With the QB 1/2 rolling away from it, it opens it up............sometimes.