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If you do, that will be the first success story I've heard with zone. Everything i've been doing is man coverage.

I think this was a zone blitz. Back in season 2 we had a DE drop back in coverage and get an INT, then run it back for a TD.

http://goallineblitz.com/game/replay.pl?pbp_id=4081553

But yeah, zone kind of sucks.

i was thinking of making a "zone blocking scheme" option for O-Linemen, because that's a trend in the NFL. I forget how it went but with smaller, quicker O-Linemen, its better to just have a couple guys be responsible for gap, as opposed to playing man to man blocking.

I think the Broncos do something like that with their O-Line and that's why they are so successful with their run.

However, i thought about how much DB zone coverage sucks and O-Line zone blocking, if it is ever implemented, would probably be a Cluster-Eff

Season 4 Zones are int engines. My LBs from my zone plays eat QBs alive, especially when the medium and middle passing game is used.

Zone isn't better than man in overall useage but zones do their job.

Originally posted by she didnt choke on a salad
i was thinking of making a "zone blocking scheme" option for O-Linemen, because that's a trend in the NFL. I forget how it went but with smaller, quicker O-Linemen, its better to just have a couple guys be responsible for gap, as opposed to playing man to man blocking.

I think the Broncos do something like that with their O-Line and that's why they are so successful with their run.

However, i thought about how much DB zone coverage sucks and O-Line zone blocking, if it is ever implemented, would probably be a Cluster-Eff

the broncos are probably a good example of zone blocking. but the only way it works for them is because they are very very undersized and a little faster. problem is when they play a team with a avg to above avg d-line they crumble.

it would make it even harder to apply a zone block scheme in glb due to awareness issues pathing tendencies it proly would make bort pop his balloon.

Its not really the zone-blocking that makes the Broncos so successful, its their use of the Free-Blocking zone and their exploits of the zone's loopholes.

But, this is a joke thread, so I digress...

no this isn't a joke thread. I'm serious. How do you implement a successful zone?

Zone just aren't that great. You need a lot of player in the backfield for zone to have any kind of impact. If you gonna use so many players, the man to man with cover 2 is just more practical.

As far as the Broncos being a successful zone blocking team, I think it's all those "borderline unethical" cut blocking they do that makes them better then they really are.