Spot

The concept

A corner over the top, a hitch sitting underneath and a flat running away from both — a triangle out of one bunch.

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The look
Three receivers off one spot: one breaking for the corner, one settling down at five yards, one running flat to the sideline. A triangle inside a quarter of the field.
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The conflict
Traffic. Three receivers off one spot means three defenders trying to follow through the same two yards of grass.
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The throw
The flat defender. If he runs with the flat, the hitch is open behind him; if he sits, throw the flat.

Why it works

The triangle beats where a defender can stand
There is a route above him, a route below him and a route outside him. Wherever the underneath defender puts his feet, two of the three are uncovered.
It creates traffic without calling a pick
Three receivers leaving the same spot means three defenders trying to follow through the same two yards of grass. Somebody gets held up and nobody blocked anyone.
The read is two men and it never changes
Flat defender first, the sit-down behind him second. Same decision every time it is called, which is what makes it a call a young quarterback can own.

Letting the spot route drift
The sit-down is at five yards and STILL. Drifting deeper puts him in the same window as the corner route and lets one defender cover both of them.
Throwing the corner because it looks open early
It is open early because nobody has had to chase it yet. Give it one more beat and the safety is arriving as the ball does.
Running it into the boundary
The triangle needs room outside it. Into a short side the flat route runs out of field before the read is finished, and the whole shape folds up.

The written breakdowns, by format. The diagram above is the same at every team size — these are the pages that say how it is actually run at each.

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