Alignment versus Bunch Package

Also, if you can recognize the formation in time to do this, it is vital to put your best cover corner on the split end away from the bunch. We run a lot of R&S stuff out of a bunch formation and pick on the man corner with slants, fades, and especially the skinny post if the safety rotates too far over the bunch pre-snap or immediately after the snap. We almost always run the TE on the smash route to force the S to cover deep away from the split end, then the post will open up eventually for big yards

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What do you do if the defender misses his collision? Are you running Man Free, Cover 2, or Cover 3?

I like the idea of the triangle coverage, but keep in a zone scheme thereafter. For example, the corner takes the first receiver to break outside (covering the flat and fade zones), the safety takes the first receiver to break deep (Deep 1/2 zone), and the OLB/SS takes the first receiver to break inside (hook and curl zones), but I don't like trying to bump receivers already up to speed.

The whole LB corps need to be taught to pattern read the routes being run by the receivers. For example, one way to beat the triangle coverage scheme is to run crossing routes with the receiver who releases inside with the #1 receiver from the backside. The OLB/SS can't stay focused on the receiver leaving his zone and not look for his zone to be threatened from the back side or flat areas. Similarly, rubs can be worked later in the pattern by the crossing receivers on the ILB, or receivers could be taught to sit in the zone windows as they cross the field. You don't have to teach the LBs to recognize specific patterns being run by the recievers (by patterns I mean a group of pass routes). However, the individual players responsible for their zones must know what pass routes could threaten their zone by any of the 5 potential receivers. Safeties and Corners are typically taught these things, but it is especially important to have pass savvy linebackers against a team that runs bunch.