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Football Concepts, Schemes, Formations: TDG Football Seminar Discusses Route Trees

Welcome back to the TDG Football Seminar. While most schools do not have classes on Labor Day, we recognize that learning more about football is a labor of love worth studying. Today we are going to discuss what a route tree is, where they came from, and why they are important.

Last year, we frequently discussed how the goal of an offense is make playing simple for your offense and complex for the defense. There are lots of ways to do this, some better than others. A reasonable question for the passing game is how do you communicate to wide receivers what route they should run.