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Strange Fruit From the Cowboys Receiver Tree
Posted by Rafael at Friday, August 26, 2011
New receivers coach Jimmy Robinson built a complex route tree for his receivers in San Antonio and continues to do so during the summer. The complexity suggests greater confidence in the Cowboys pass protection and that Jason Garrett will be even more aggressive than he's been in the past.
Conventional NFL passing trees, regardless of system have at least nine basic routes, with inside routes usually numbered with even digits and outside routes having odd numbers. (A 0 route is a shallow cross and the 9 route is a simple go, up the field.)
Every day, the Cowboys wideouts would practice a dozen of so routes, getting proper depth on cuts, cutting off the proper foot, and working on making sharp cuts. As the camp progressed, the number of double moves increased. The receivers ran routes like a spin, a route that starts like a deep in, then breaks 180 degrees to the sideline, or a "sluggo" of "pidgeon" route, a slant-and-go up the field.
I was surprised at the number of triple moves the Cowboys worked on. I've written about the special 8, a post-corner-post route that's been a staple of this offense since the Norv Turner days. That routes was practiced regularly, was its mirror image, the corner-post-corner route.
These were just two of several odd triple moves. Consider this one from mid camp -- a sluggo and out, a route that starts with the receiver running the beginning of a slant, running five yards up field, cutting hard at five yards, taking another few steps and cutting sharply straight up field, running to a depth of about 15-18 yards, then cutting 90 degrees to the sideline.
These are the types of routes you break out on those inconvenient 3rd-and-18 plays. Of when you're in a nasty mood and really want to mess with an overly-aggressive cornerback's head.
In any case, these are not routes you run when you're concerned about leaky pass protection, because they take a long time to execute. Yet, there were the Cowboys receivers, running routes like this every day.
These guys could be a lot of fun to watch.
Posted by Rafael at Friday, August 26, 2011
New receivers coach Jimmy Robinson built a complex route tree for his receivers in San Antonio and continues to do so during the summer. The complexity suggests greater confidence in the Cowboys pass protection and that Jason Garrett will be even more aggressive than he's been in the past.
Conventional NFL passing trees, regardless of system have at least nine basic routes, with inside routes usually numbered with even digits and outside routes having odd numbers. (A 0 route is a shallow cross and the 9 route is a simple go, up the field.)
Every day, the Cowboys wideouts would practice a dozen of so routes, getting proper depth on cuts, cutting off the proper foot, and working on making sharp cuts. As the camp progressed, the number of double moves increased. The receivers ran routes like a spin, a route that starts like a deep in, then breaks 180 degrees to the sideline, or a "sluggo" of "pidgeon" route, a slant-and-go up the field.
I was surprised at the number of triple moves the Cowboys worked on. I've written about the special 8, a post-corner-post route that's been a staple of this offense since the Norv Turner days. That routes was practiced regularly, was its mirror image, the corner-post-corner route.
These were just two of several odd triple moves. Consider this one from mid camp -- a sluggo and out, a route that starts with the receiver running the beginning of a slant, running five yards up field, cutting hard at five yards, taking another few steps and cutting sharply straight up field, running to a depth of about 15-18 yards, then cutting 90 degrees to the sideline.
These are the types of routes you break out on those inconvenient 3rd-and-18 plays. Of when you're in a nasty mood and really want to mess with an overly-aggressive cornerback's head.
In any case, these are not routes you run when you're concerned about leaky pass protection, because they take a long time to execute. Yet, there were the Cowboys receivers, running routes like this every day.
These guys could be a lot of fun to watch.
