Airing It Out

If you liked this article, here are three others just like it: 1. Working the Right Angle in Your Passing Game, April 2000 2. Shotgun Quick, Oct. 2000 3. 2-minute Defense, Aug. 1999 At Arizona State University, we have an attacking style of offense. To obtain this style, we have developed an aggressive attitude to go over the top of a defense and make big plays. The big plays are available because of the aggressive nature of today’s defenses. Modern day defenses in run down situations will put an extra defender in the box, making it extremely difficult to run the ball. One of our answers to these aggressive defenses is to play action and throw the ball vertically down the field. Throwing the vertical play action pass will create big plays and force the defense to take that extra defender out of the box. One of our vertical play action routes is 787. Diagram 1. The vertical play action