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The mystery of our fascination with Outside Zone
So I'll gladly listen to anyone that wants to correct me on this one, but it sure looks to me like the Chiefs STILL prefer an outside zone running system and for the life of me I cannot figure out why.
There's an article in the Athletic that really sums up my confusing in a lot of ways. It's about the Lions dedication to a power gap scheme. Here's a little blurb that kinda makes my point for me: Quote:
WHY IS THIS NOT OUR RUNNING GAME!?!?! Teams have been doing that Fangio shit to us for 2+ years now. They're living in light boxes and when we run the ball we're leading with our chins and running this damn outside zone crap that A) Doesn't take advantage of our power blockers as well and B) Lets the defense do what it wants to do, which is use speed and move laterally to race us to the sidelines and seal off big gains. It can essentially run Nickel formations and still manage that. Maybe they're doing more gap running than I realize or maybe I'm just too damn stupid to see the bigger picture of what they're trying to accomplish. But man - I will never understand why we haven't made teams 'pick your poison' more. When we run, it should absolutely be a gap scheme designed to just maul guys rather than this outside zone crap that just does them a massive favor while not taking advantage of our OL's greatest strengths. |
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I remember Andy blowing a game by refusing to run the ball back in his Philly days. John Madden was kinda chuckling about it "It's so hard for Andy to call a lot of runs, even when it's called for, just not in his DNA."
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I think he just engages in a little creative accounting.
"Well you see, I realize that the safety was 20 yards off the LOS but he could have been on a run blitz so I counted him as inside the box. And the corner on the left side had his foot near the hash marks and that's really just 3 good strides away from being near the LB so I counted a 9th in there as well. I mean it looks like a Nickel formation but really, that was a 9 man box..."
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I think we will see more gap scheme as a way to counter the Tite Front defenses that our being used to defend Spread. Down block with our interior 3 and kick the shit out of them... Hopefully we can mix some of those in out of spread formation, especially with our recent futility on short downs.
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What screen game?
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He's the perfect not my team but ill root for them as under dogs coach.
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It also deals with blocking techniques of the Mike Shanahan zones which involved cutblocking and said blockers aiming for the knees instead of squaring up and drive the defenders down cleanly. We saw this shit up close and live with the late 90's Broncos.
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Or the AFC North just for the entertainment value of having 4 teams that are just out there mauling the piss out of each other like it's 1965. We can always hope Cincy continues to scuffle, right? Oh lord, please let him go to Cleveland with Nick Chubb and Myles Garrett. I just feel like his ability to be miserable to play against is wasted in that pisswater conference.
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They run a fairly balanced mix of inside/outside zone, depending on the looks and alignment the defense is throwing at them. the RPO system they run utilizes the same gap mechanics.
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