If you can protect and have a good QB, receivers will take care of themselves. If you have game breakers on the outside but cannot handle much of the 5-step stuff, then you still can work to get the ball to them on screens, quick’s, etc.
This offense is an under the center drop back offense so you will want to have draws, screens and counters to compliment your power running and deep passing. You utilize between 12-15 concepts. We may pass the ball 40 times and utilize each play 3-4 times (less is more and practice what you will use).
Though you should not be locked into the fact that you must run all of these routes every game. For example, if you play a Cover 2 team, you'll throw smash, 3-verticals and double slants maybe 4 times each in a game and Curl/flat and all-hitch almost never. Then versus a Cover 1 and/or blitzing team, you'll run mesh 4-6 times that game, and then versus a zone team you'll only use it a few times.
You typically need a Cover 3 beater, a Cover 2 beater, and a Cover 4 beater, some man beaters (2 and 1) and some anti-blitz (both screens and up the field "take-a-shot" passes). My two favorite plays are the draw and screen (find any way you can to utilize them).
