Football analysis and strategy from Chris B. Brown
Russell Athletic Bowl — Key to Rutgers vs. Virginia Tech: Outside Zone
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Russell Athletic Bowl — Key to Rutgers vs. Virginia Tech: Outside Zone
College football’s bowl season is not much like the single-minded narrative of a one winner-take-all playoff. Instead it’s a shifting, multiple layered story told through an ensemble cast. Some of the stories, like the BCS title game, are triumphant, with maybe even a tinge of poetic folklore — some battle that could as easily be…
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Fantastic inside zone and “pin-and-pull” outside zone cut-ups
Under former coach Glen Mason, Minnesota, while not a great team, was one of the best rushing teams in the entire country during that time. And while they had some very good backs — including both Lawrence Maroney and Marion Barber III at the same time — they did it by being extremely simple: the…
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A very simple explanation of the zone runs, and the difference between inside zone and outside zone
I wrote this up in abbreviated form originally for my breakdown of the OU-Texas game for Yahoo!’s Dr Saturday, but this is something I’ve been thinking about for awhile. There is still way too much confusion about inside zones and outside zones. Part of this is that there are a lot of coaching points on…