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Film Room: Executing The Tandem Block

Gary Kubiak doesn’t always run a classic, Alex Gibbs-style full stretch zone blocking scheme. There have been plenty of outside zone runs and inside zone runs as well. Some sweeps have worked well for Ronnie Hillman.

As the team gets better and better on offense, the full stretch zone has begun to emerge more often. When you run a zone blocking scheme, an essential of the scheme is the combo block. I’ve talked about them before.

Coach Gibbs preferred the term ‘tandem blocks’, which I’ll be using today. The tandem should move the defender in the direction that the play is going to go.