Coach Payton Breaks Down Superbowl

QBs, backs and receivers, please watch the video. This is Coach Payton breaking down the Saints offense vs. the Colts. The Colts usually play cover 2 defense. Watch in the last play how they go to cover 3 by bringing the one safety up into the flats. The 4 vertical route works well against this as you can see. If they are dropping 3 deep, they can't cover 4 going deep! As Coach Payton says, it is usually one of the middle 2 vertical routes that pops open because the safety alone in the middle has to go one way or the other.

Saints video: Coach Payton breaks down 2nd quarter

Play Action

While we at Goodrich do not usually run the zone plays, we do playaction off of our Iso. This video is a great breakdown of the 4 phases of a good playaction play. The QB should take pride in making every RUN look like it really is a playaction. The 4 phases are SET, SHOW, SNAP and SELL. The steps shown are for the zone handoff, which usually occurs deep in the backfield and opening directly to the playside. We will usually reverse out to reach the tailback, but the concept is the same. The first play in the video is actually a great example of a QB reversing out.
Also, we will use other types of fakes, sometimes just hand fakes and not the ball. We will still have the same four phases with every run or playaction. This was taken from Darrin Slack's QB academy.