If you made it to this article, congrats! That means you either survived the 2,000+ word look at RPOs, or just ignored it entirely. Both paths are defensible.
Today, we continue our series of looking at the 2021 Packers offense by digging into a key play: PA Boot. To properly talk about PA Boot, let’s touch on some basics of the wild world of the Wide Zone run concept.
Though zone blocking can be tracked down to the earliest days of football, the modern day zone blocking scheme is generally attributed to Howard Mudd in Cleveland in the mid-80s.