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Double Slants

The concept

Two receivers on the same side both breaking inside, stacked so one defender is between them.

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    The look

    Two receivers stacked on one side, both breaking inside — the outside man at three yards and the inside man just behind him, on staggered tracks.

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    The conflict

    Two inside breaks from outside leverage. Both defenders are running across the field with no help inside them.

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    The throw

    Whichever slant the inside defender does not take. Fast, flat and off the back foot.

Why it works

  • One defender caught between two inside breaks

    He can wall off the first slant or sit for the second. Whichever he does, the other one is throwing space.

  • The stack takes the jam away

    The inside receiver cannot be pressed, because there is a receiver standing between him and anyone who would do it. He gets a clean release every time.

  • It is a completion, not a shot

    Both routes are caught in stride moving toward the middle of the field, which is the safest throw a young quarterback makes.

How it gets run badly

  • Running both slants at the same depth

    Level with each other they arrive in one window and a single defender takes them both. The stagger is what makes it two routes.

  • Throwing the first slant because it is first

    The read is which one is uncovered, not which one is nearer. First is a habit, not a progression.

  • Calling it into inside leverage

    Slants thrown at a defender already sitting inside is throwing to the defense. Against a squatting linebacker, run the same picture and break out instead.

Draw Double Slants for your own team

Open it in the designer, change the routes, save it to your playbook.

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