what are the best routes combonations to beat a zone?

[fahad]

what are the best route combonations to beat a zone, i know you can do flood at one side but what is the best routes combonation to beat a zone.

[tikyle]

Drag routes, in routes and out routes will beat any zone if you have time.

[jerseyjay14]

Drag routes, in routes and out routes will beat any zone if you have time.

thats not true, depending on the zone. there are several zones to design those exact routes...

check this post, i put it up a while agof or 05 but the principals are the same:
http://www.vgsportsinc.com/forums/sh...ghlight=sticky

[A Disciple]

Flooding zones is always good.

[The Strategist]

curl-post,In route-Post, Streak-n post underneath it, Streak-n-corner underneath, flat-corner route....are a few that come to mind. Is that what you meant?

[tikyle]

thats not true, depending on the zone. there are several zones to design those exact routes...

check this post, i put it up a while agof or 05 but the principals are the same:
http://www.vgsportsinc.com/forums/sh...ghlight=sticky

There is no zone that covers the entire field and that's what a drag route does. It goes across the entire field an even if you zone everybody across the field there will be a gap in between defenders.

Also everyone keeps saying fade route but what route on Madden is a fade? I though in madden fades and streaks were one in the same.

[Redknight]

Drag routes, in routes and out routes will beat any zone if you have time.

Stay away from out routes, this route led too many easy interception. Best to beat zones are post and corner.

also running ball in middle gut help, dont run to outside.

[BOOBOOSD]

what are the best route combonations to beat a zone, i know you can do flood at one side but what is the best routes combonation to beat a zone.

Streaks n Fades, inside recievers like SlotWRs or TEs running Streaks and outside WRs running Fade routes. The Fade routes usually always opens up.

Add in:
Drags/crossing routes, deep post over the middle, corner routes, Flats (vs. safer zones like Cover4 especially), HB/FB circle or angled ( < > ) routes over the middle and you should be good to go. And playaction also.

[BigB]

Something Shayan told me at a tourney was these two rules.
For man you do slants, corner, post corner, curls, and quick outs
For zone you do crossing routes.

The problem with zone is that the defenders jump the closest man. If you're running crossing routes one guy clear the other out. 3 route floods work in this case. Hot read- (flat route), and two crossing routes at different depth. The Streak/fade is easy to stop by just moving your corners around. Once that's done you're stuck. (Like a flat, post, and curl. (TE- post/HB- Flat, FL- Curl.) This way no matter if it's man lock off or zone you will have one guy open at all times. You also have help with a hot read to the flat.Always have your backside work to the middle of the field when running floods. This way if the coverage flow to the overload side where your flood is you have an option on the backside. (Like the SE doing a deep post route, slant, or drag.) Deep outs when ran right can't be defended unless you have two to three players there. Take care and good luck.

[BigB]

Something Shayan told me at a tourney was these two rules.
For man you do slants, corner, post corner, curls, and quick outs
For zone you do crossing routes.

The problem with zone is that the defenders jump the closest man. If you're running crossing routes one guy clear the other out. 3 route floods work in this case. Hot read- (flat route), and two crossing routes at different depth. The Streak/fade is easy to stop by just moving your corners around. Once that's done you're stuck.

When you run your routes this way (ex- TE- Post corner/ HB-Flat/,and FL doing a Curl.), no matter if it's man lock off or zone you will have one guy open at all times. You also have help with a hot read to the flat. Always have your backside work to the middle of the field when running floods. This way if the coverage flow to the overload side where your flood is you have an option on the backside. (Like the SE doing a deep post route, slant, or drag.) Deep outs when ran right can't be defended unless you have two to three players there. Take care and good luck.

[Broncos4life]

If you have a slot reciever running a post route and your outside running a streak. For some zones the slot reciever running the post route will be open because they will worry about the reciever going deep.

[Hostile Apostle]

Any route can beat a zone... it all depends on what kind of zone they're running.

[Titans 4 LIFE]

use compression sets to flood the zone

[Bearfanmike20]

any route that runs through a few different zones. You hit your rec in the seams.. Works well.

[Titans 4 LIFE]

always check the flats vs zone, alot of peeps use drop zone which has no coverage in the flats.