The Gun Trio Offset – Flood is a great play to attack zone coverage. It also is an effective play to attack man coverage. Especially with the pass route that's already being run by the tight end, which is called the corner post route.
For this breakdown, we don't want to focus so much on that particular pass route that's being run by the Zach Ertz. Instead what we want to do is to go ahead and look at a pass route that's being run by Zach Ertz of the Philadelphia Eagles that you can have or use based on his X Factor rating.
In the image above notice, the TE Apprentice. This allows Etz four additional hot routes when lineup at the TE position on the field. In this case, the route that he's going to run in this breakdown that we're about to show is called the trail route.
If you look to your left on the screen here you'll notice that the three receivers on the left running the flood concept. The middle slot receiver is the play's primary receiver. This particular concept is very effective at attacking Zone coverage.
As we already mentioned earlier Zach Ertz is an X-Factor.
Against man coverage, this particular route is pretty effective against it. By plays default design, you won't have to make any pre-snap adjustments
Because it's a double move pass route, he will often get open once he breaks towards the post.
Because Earth is an X-Factor player he has an additional four pass routes which are what we've already mentioned
The route that we're going to go ahead and show in this breakdown is called the trail route
By pressing left on the d-pad he will now run the trail route
In the image above the Defenders going to cover him but watch what happened once he breaks towards the post.
Once he breaks towards the post he generally gets separation from the defender that's covering them
This leaves in wide-open where you can make the catch in the open field
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Final Thoughts
Gun Trio Offset – Flood is a great play that can attack both zone and man coverage. If the defense is playing zone, look to throw the ball to the left where the flood concept is being run at. If man coverage is called, look to throw to the tight end.
