As I mentioned in Film Room’s previous installment, Tiger coach Eli Drinkwitz has, on several occasions, professed his commitment to having a “a dominant downhill running game,” centered on the principles of the Zone family of run plays. Last time, we studied the way Coach Drink builds a sophisticated constellation of Inside Zone plays from an array of simple building blocks. Today we look at his Outside Zone scheme, which is similarly assembled in the building-block mode.
Outside Zone
The basic principle on which Zone plays are based is that each blocker is responsible for his playside gap.