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title: "Football Passing Concepts With Diagrams"
description: "Mesh, Stick, Snag, Drive, Sail and more: passing concepts drawn out route by route, with which coverages each one beats and how the quarterback reads it."
url: https://www.crucibletech.com/playbook/concepts/
---

Crucible playbook

# Football Passing Concepts

A passing concept is a set of routes designed to work together, so that whatever the defense does, one defender is put in a bind and someone comes open. Learn the concept and you learn the read.

These are the passing concepts in Crucible’s library, each drawn route by route. The written-up ones explain what the concept attacks, which coverages it beats, and the order a quarterback reads it.

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![Curl diagram](https://www.crucibletech.com/playbook/img/football_11v11/concepts/curl.thumb.webp)

Curl Diagonal / Curl
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![Dig diagram](https://www.crucibletech.com/playbook/img/football_11v11/concepts/dig.thumb.webp)

Dig HB Option / In
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![Drive diagram](https://www.crucibletech.com/playbook/img/football_11v11/concepts/drive.thumb.webp)

Drive Angle / Basic / Shallow
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![Hitch diagram](https://www.crucibletech.com/playbook/img/football_11v11/concepts/hitch.thumb.webp)

Hitch Seam / Hitch
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![Mesh diagram](https://www.crucibletech.com/playbook/img/football_11v11/concepts/mesh.thumb.webp)

Mesh Shallow / Rail / Cross / In
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![Sail diagram](https://www.crucibletech.com/playbook/img/football_11v11/concepts/sail.thumb.webp)

Sail Sail / Option / Pogo
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![Scissors diagram](https://www.crucibletech.com/playbook/img/football_11v11/concepts/scissors.thumb.webp)

Scissors Diagonal / Sail / Pogo
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![Slant diagram](https://www.crucibletech.com/playbook/img/football_11v11/concepts/slant.thumb.webp)

Slant Diagonal / Slant
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![Snag diagram](https://www.crucibletech.com/playbook/img/football_11v11/concepts/snag.thumb.webp)

Snag Corner / Snag
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![Stick diagram](https://www.crucibletech.com/playbook/img/football_11v11/concepts/stick.thumb.webp)

Stick Stick / Arrow / Go

## More Concepts in Crucible

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![Bash diagram](https://www.crucibletech.com/playbook/img/football_11v11/concepts/bash.thumb.webp)

Bash Basic / Outside-Shin

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![Boot diagram](https://www.crucibletech.com/playbook/img/football_11v11/concepts/boot.thumb.webp)

Boot HB Option / Bow

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![Branch diagram](https://www.crucibletech.com/playbook/img/football_11v11/concepts/branch.thumb.webp)

Branch Branch / Arrow / Go

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![Cafe diagram](https://www.crucibletech.com/playbook/img/football_11v11/concepts/cafe.thumb.webp)

Cafe Diagonal / Corner / Curl

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![Cobb diagram](https://www.crucibletech.com/playbook/img/football_11v11/concepts/cobb.thumb.webp)

Cobb HB Option / Comeback

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![Cruise diagram](https://www.crucibletech.com/playbook/img/football_11v11/concepts/cruise.thumb.webp)

Cruise Chute / Inside-Shin / Outside-Shin

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![Dancer diagram](https://www.crucibletech.com/playbook/img/football_11v11/concepts/dancer.thumb.webp)

Dancer Branch / Crease / Dagger

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![Hank diagram](https://www.crucibletech.com/playbook/img/football_11v11/concepts/hank.thumb.webp)

Hank OTB / Diagonal / Curl

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![Hook diagram](https://www.crucibletech.com/playbook/img/football_11v11/concepts/hook.thumb.webp)

Hook Swing / OTB / Curl

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![Icon diagram](https://www.crucibletech.com/playbook/img/football_11v11/concepts/icon.thumb.webp)

Icon Chute / Option / In

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![Moon diagram](https://www.crucibletech.com/playbook/img/football_11v11/concepts/moon.thumb.webp)

Moon Diagonal / Basic / Spot

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![Ohio diagram](https://www.crucibletech.com/playbook/img/football_11v11/concepts/ohio.thumb.webp)

Ohio Option / Hitch

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![Option diagram](https://www.crucibletech.com/playbook/img/football_11v11/concepts/option.thumb.webp)

Option Option / Go

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![Pin diagram](https://www.crucibletech.com/playbook/img/football_11v11/concepts/pin.thumb.webp)

Pin Stick / Basic / Post

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![Slope diagram](https://www.crucibletech.com/playbook/img/football_11v11/concepts/slope.thumb.webp)

Slope HB Option / Slim

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![Star diagram](https://www.crucibletech.com/playbook/img/football_11v11/concepts/star.thumb.webp)

Star Diagonal / Corner / Spot

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![Tosser diagram](https://www.crucibletech.com/playbook/img/football_11v11/concepts/tosser.thumb.webp)

Tosser Lookie / Slant

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![Twig diagram](https://www.crucibletech.com/playbook/img/football_11v11/concepts/twig.thumb.webp)

Twig Stick / Box Fade / Bar

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![Twist diagram](https://www.crucibletech.com/playbook/img/football_11v11/concepts/twist.thumb.webp)

Twist Flat / Inside Snag / Corner

Reading It Is the Hard Part
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