How to Run the Hitch & Go in Football

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Hi, this is Sean Hobson, for Expert Village. We're working with our wide receivers to get them to run some patterns to get them open and hopefully score for your football team. What we're talking about now is called the hitch and go. This is a real effective pattern to run especially at the lower levels because when the defensive back sees that wide receiver stop his pattern he will come back and start reading the quarterback and try to jump the route. We're going to try to fake it so it looks like he's running a short come back route and then he's going to go long. A lot of times this will be set up by our quarterback, three step drop and making a pump fake to draw the defense in and then he'll throw it up long. It will look something like this as we walk through it (video demo). We'll have him come out about 5 yards and fake the come back route. That will get me to come up and bite and then he'll go long and the quarterback will throw it up over the top of him. This is what it will look like at full speed (video demo). This is called the hitch and go. The hitch is where he comes back and then he's going to go long. This is good because the defense will break up and then the quarterback doesn't have to worry about throwing a precision pass because this guy got beat so bad. It's a very effective play to run, called the hitch and go.

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