Directional Blocking: First Time Since 2015

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(11-26-2017, 11:33 PM)Brownshoe Wrote: I'm going to assume it's because that's what Zampese wanted, and for the team to actually change to that took time for the players to learn it and the coaches comfortable running it in actual games. I hope that's what it is at least.

That’s probably as good a reason as any I’ve heard. Paul Alexander knows how to teach directional blocking because the Bengals did it a lot from 2003-06, exclusively in 2009, and predominately in 2011-15.