Cut up of the Day: Outside Zone

Our OZ wasn’t as big of a part of our offense as I wanted it to be.  Part of this was because of the backs we had and some mistakes we made.  We actually had much more success running QB OZ with the RB leading.  This was a great play for us because our QB was fast, ran hard, and it gave us an instant numbers advantage.  One thing that helped us was all of the sprint out we ran… it looks very similar to the defense and puts those force /flat players in conflict.

When we had number advantage to trips we could overload them by running it strong, when defenses brought their OLB over to the trips side and left no #2 defender to the single side we could run it weak.

A lot of the clips you will see my tackle after determining he couldn’t get a reach block turn his defender out giving a CUT UP read (as opposed to a cutback read on IZ) The best clips in my opinion are the ones where QB reads that block turns it up, and then gets back outside.

The final 2 clips are us running speed option.  I included it because we ran it with an OZ blocking scheme.  This wasn’t a big part of our offense, only ran it a couple times on the year.

Since I have now shown cut ups of our whole base run game I can now show this…As a bonus here are some clips of our QB keeps on the backside of our run game.  These are not called runs, but every RB carry involves the QB reading the BSDE, we are still not as good as I want us to be at this but we were better this year than we have ever been with it (mostly because of personnel).  Our backup QB actually did a better job reading it than our starter who was our stud runner.