Today I want to talk about “running Ryan Finley” and the impact that the quarterback had rushing the ball on Monday Night Football.
He ran quarterback draws, but he also ran a number of zone read plays, where he had the option to keep the ball or hand it off to the running back. To start off let’s talk about zone runs in general.
Zone Variations
There are a lot of different ways to run the zone play and a lot of the variation relates to how you block the backside. The first one we’ll talk about is the Split Zone.