Stick Concept

How Stick Is Built

In Crucible's Stick, the inside receiver's stick sits against zone and breaks out against man. The slot runs an arrow to the flat, and the go route outside takes the corner deep and out of the flat.

What Stick Beats

• Cover 3: the Curl/Flat defender cannot cover the stick and the arrow at once.
• Quarters and other zones with soft underneath defenders.
• Man, with the stick breaking away from leverage.

How the QB Reads It

Read the Curl/Flat defender and feel the Hook/Curl defender. If the Curl/Flat defender widens, throw the stick; if that defender sits inside on the stick, throw the arrow. The go route is the shot if the corner squats or loses the receiver. In Crucible's Stick Slant you work the Stick side against two-high looks and the Slant side against one high.