Matthew King

Agreed. This is why studying and pre-snap reads are so important. But when you couple choice routes with the fact that defenses are playing way more exotic fronts and coverages, it makes the position more difficult to play in some ways- and the craft of playing quarterback that much more important. I love the challenge and love studying and anticipating what I am going to see so that my feet can sink up with the patterns.

Good question! The variables from an offensive line perspective is time intensive. Using the example he gave: Wide zone - Can you reach the 3 tech? If not, how do you adjust? Do you hang on double teams longer because the frontside linebacker isn’t great at scraping to the football or does he always over-pursue so cutback lane is available - How do you play someone like Aaron Donald? Block down and bucket step around? Run away? Do you have to make creative adjustments? - What’s the plan for blocking blitzes, slants, stunts, reductions, etc. (Have to rep both mentally in film room and on the field. Biggest time spent.) - Does the RB’s aiming point now change based on these adjustments. If so he needs to be cycled into the OL room I know it looks like just running wide zone on the surface but OL coaches/coordinators have their hands full preparing for all these adjustments beforehand, so they’re not having to scramble to make them in the game. Everything is loaded ready to go.

I’m not trying to be an asshole, but if you have to spend countless hours on zone read… is nfl coaching even that great? It’s zone - which they run, with a mesh from qb to rb. What took countless hours?

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Del State revamped its entire run game on the backs of wide zone. Sure helps when your Center can reach a 3-Technique. 😲

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