The NFL Route Tree............

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Since this keep coming up in our posts about KW I though a very basic visual might help.  This is the same concept used by every NFL team so it's not dependent on a specific scheme or OCs playbook. Team may use different terminologies or language but the concepts remain the same.

[hawkeye21]

Sept 13, 2016 15:31:57 GMT -6 @soulman said:

Since this keep coming up in our posts about KW I though a very basic visual might help.  This is the same concept used by every NFL team so it's not dependent on a specific scheme or OCs playbook. Team may use different terminologies or language but the concepts remain the same.

Not only is this used my every NFL team but it is used in college, high school and pee wee leagues.  It's basically the universal chart for routes.

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Here's an even better one which identifies the routes for each of the three main receivers, X, Y, and Z.  X is the designation for the Split End, Y is the Slot or possibly the TE for some teams, and Z is the Flanker.  The play call will tell each receiver the route he's to run and the scheme or game plan the depth of those routes if they are not standard each time or the QB may ask the receiver to run his route longer or shorter than standard depth.

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Sept 13, 2016 15:36:37 GMT -6 hawkeye21 said:

Sept 13, 2016 15:31:57 GMT -6 @soulman said:

Since this keep coming up in our posts about KW I though a very basic visual might help.  This is the same concept used by every NFL team so it's not dependent on a specific scheme or OCs playbook. Team may use different terminologies or language but the concepts remain the same.

Not only is this used my every NFL team but it is used in college, high school and pee wee leagues.  It's basically the universal chart for routes.

Good call Hawk.  I only listed it as the NFL route tree because that what we're dealing with here but yeah, White would have had exposure to it at WVU and his JUCO as well.  The hitch here is they never asked him to run the entire route tree at WVU and then only from one side of the formation. 

If he swaps sides the route names are flipped and unlike at WVU the Bears have him lining up on both sides.  But an out is still an out no matter which side he's on.  On Sunday it looked like either he fakes a dig or he was confused by the play call and started to run a dig then corrected himself to run the out that was called or he was supposed to make a sight read on the coverage and run the appropriate route off that.  We'll never know but in the end he ran neither he just sat on the route.

[datreebearz]

I'm old the corner used to be called a flag but we also called a bumper route to the 1963 Buick when playing on Elm street.

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Sept 13, 2016 17:00:22 GMT -6 datreebearz said:

I'm old the corner used to be called a flag but we also called a bumper route to the 1963 Buick when playing on Elm street.

Go down three step past the manhole cover, do a button hook at the hydrant, then cut left behind the black Chevy.....I'll fake it to ya'. 

[hawkeye21]

For some reason it seems some people think White just doesn't know how to run basic routes but I would bet he's just struggling to remember which route needs to be run on which plays. The only thing that's going to help him with that is studying the playbook more and lots of reps. If he can't get a feel for running the right routes and getting open against defenses then he is hopeless. At that point I would consider him a bust.

[JABF]

Sept 13, 2016 15:31:57 GMT -6 @soulman said:

Since this keep coming up in our posts about KW I though a very basic visual might help.  This is the same concept used by every NFL team so it's not dependent on a specific scheme or OCs playbook. Team may use different terminologies or language but the concepts remain the same.

No, no, no... the Bears run the basic routes (below... they borrowed the play book from the Brazil soccer team).  I've listed the chart, and a pic of the offense using it last Sunday:

[AlexM]

Sept 14, 2016 9:38:21 GMT -6 JABF said:

Sept 13, 2016 15:31:57 GMT -6 @soulman said:

Since this keep coming up in our posts about KW I though a very basic visual might help.  This is the same concept used by every NFL team so it's not dependent on a specific scheme or OCs playbook. Team may use different terminologies or language but the concepts remain the same.

No, no, no... the Bears run the basic routes (below... they borrowed the play book from the Brazil soccer team).  I've listed the chart, and a pic of the offense using it last Sunday:

Thats real PRO Football there

[brasilbear]

Add to all that the sight adjustments that have to be made, knowing when your route is the hot route in case of a blitz,...it gets complicated fast.

The play call maybe for a slant, but if the CB is playing press coverage shaded to the inside with only 1 safety deep, the route might change to a corner route or an out route without there being a audible. QB and WR need to see the same thing and adjust accordingly together.