Good Outside Zone Explanation

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(12-01-2021, 06:37 PM)Au165 Wrote: I'd edit this to say most teams have a zone scheme within their running game, but today most teams have hybrid running games. Even guys off the Shannahan tree aren't running straight zone schemes anymore and mixing some other concepts in now.

(12-01-2021, 09:13 PM)Nate (formerly eliminate08) Wrote: Yeah, straight running schemes are kind of a thing of the past.

Correct. I never meant it to be the entire running playbook. A simple blitz package would stop your run game. However like the OP, I was trying to kick some football knowledge to those people whom never played and those that played only up to HS... where I am guessing teams in Ohio use the old alphanumeric gap run calls. That is what I used playing from elementary to high school in Pennsylvania.

As you can see in the UCLA link... 1 team has multiple runs for every zone (i.e. stretch, counter etc..). But you draft the OL that can move to use this type of run game (i.e. zone). Not every lineman can be placed into a power scheme and not every lineman can play in a zone scheme. This is similar to the 3-4 or 4-3 defense (e.g. 3-4 DE are bigger run stoppers and you use OLB to pass rush whereas you use DE to pass rush in the 4-3). You can flirt with both but either 1 or the other is your base. Zone lineman can move, power scheme lineman can get away with being less agile.