Quarterbacks and Coaches Should Learn The Sail Route!

This play concept helps QB's with easy reads against different coverage!




Welcome to elite athletes TV. I'm Mike Pawlawski, former 11 year pro quarterback and quarterbacks coach here at EliteAthletesTV.com ( my coaches page: https://www.eliteathletestv.com/coach... .)Today, we've got some game film that we're going to look at play concept - The Sail. I'm going to show you how the play has been used for decades.
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The Sail concept is super simple. There's a go route on the outside a corner route from the second receiver, a swing playside from from the backfield for flare control. On the backside most teams run a deep over and a shallow cross or a drive route to get that high low in the middle. The point of this route is if you get cover 3 your go route runs off your deep third player, then there will be a void underneath him. Whoever the flat defender is in cover 3 would be a strong safety or an outside linebacker. If he goes high, you throw the ball to the swing. If he reacts to the swing, you throw the ball to the corner route in the void left by the clear out route on that deep third.
In cover 2 it's the same idea. The go should hold the playside safety. The corner route hits that high void and the flare control swing is to put leverage on this flat defender. If he gets depth, you throw the swing. If he stays shallow, you hit the corner in that hole. If it doesn't work out as a quarterback on the backside, you're working high low. The only reason you don't have something on the front side is if a linebacker runs to cover the swing and the flat defender gets depth under the corner. Now you've got a hole over the ball and you work high - low.
So as you can see, that's the sail route. Three different offenses, three different offensive coordinators, and it's all the same tune stretch. It's a three level flood route where you're trying to attack that flat defender or if you can't get the shot over the top. There's not a whole lot that's new in football these days. Same concepts, same way to attack defenses. It's just the way that you go through your reads whether you a progression read or a coverage read, making sure that you communicate that to your quarterback and that your quarterback understands it is the important point. Make sure that you subscribe to the channel. Give me a thumbs up if you understand the sail route and how to execute as a quarterback. Leave me a comment. I'd love to hear from you. And finally don't forget to share this out teammates, family, friends, fans, and especially young coaches. I'm trying to help young football players get better at understanding the game and better at the quarterback position especially. So I appreciate you watching just wanted to talk through the sail route let you know that all these concepts are the same. We've been learning them for years as quarterbacks. You just have to wrap your mind around how your coach wants you to read and progress through the system.
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