passing concept
Scissors Concept
Scissors crosses two routes like scissor blades: the outside receiver breaks inside on a pogo, a post-style route, while the inside receiver breaks outside, attacking the safeties and the deep sideline at once.
How Scissors Is Built
In Crucible's Scissors, the outside receiver's deep pogo route breaks inside at 15 yards and the inside receiver's sail breaks outside at 12, with a diagonal underneath. The crossing routes pull the safety and the corner in opposite directions.
What Scissors Beats
- Two-high coverages (Cover 2 Tampa and quarters) and Cover 3, whenever a safety has to choose between the pogo and the outside-breaking route.
- Man, where the crossing release creates separation.
How the QB Reads It
Read it top-down. The deep defender in conflict comes first (the free safety against Cover 2 Tampa and Cover 3, the strong safety against Cover 4): if that safety widens, throw the pogo. If the safety takes the pogo, read the intermediate defender (the corner against Cover 2 Tampa, the strong-side linebacker against Cover 3 and Cover 4): sitting low opens the sail, sinking under it opens the diagonal underneath.
The Routes in Scissors
Diagonal
Sail
Pogo
Rep Scissors Against These Coverages
Cover 131 plays to rep against
Cover 2 Tampa31 plays to rep against
Cover 331 plays to rep against
Cover 431 plays to rep against
Cover 4p15 plays to rep against
Cover 631 plays to rep against
Cover 3 Buzz31 plays to rep against
Cover 3 Weak Buzz31 plays to rep against
+ 4 more in Crucible
Scissors Plays in Crucible
Scissors Dig
Related routes
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