The divisional round of the 2019 NFL playoffs featured some creative play design worth taking a look at. In particular, I was impressed by Matt LaFleur and Green Bay. On 3rd and 7 on Green Bay’s first drive of the game, Green Bay lines up with Trips to the field, and Jimmy Graham isolated in a tight (nasty) split to the boundary. Graham is running a go route up the numbers. The inside WR in the trips, Allen Lazard, is running across the field at a shallow depth. At the bottom of the screen, Davante Adams and Geronimo Allison begin running a slant-flat combo. One purpose of slant-flat is to create a rub or pick that is difficult to navigate for man coverage. Here, the Packers run a variation where the WRs fake their slant and flat, Adams breaks deep, and Allison breaks back across the field: