BSDE on inside zone

I think the reason Alex Gibbs wants the Backside DE blocked is simple; I'm thinking he isn't comfortable with that QB out there with his rear in the wind... against an NFL caliber DE. Some of those guys are essentially Outside LB's in some cases and defenses... and they may just be taught to key the QB in that situation - in fact when I played in college that backside contain guy's key was the QB ("deep as the QB... be aware of his fakes). Since a number of OLB/DE types are QUITE agile and quick these days, I'd want someone to get a piece of him too!

At least if you block the DE - even in a hit and release into the flats situation, you get a body on him and turn him too far inside, out of the QB's path.

In one of his videos Steve Loney talks about the different ways to block that backside D (or C - depending on formation) gap defender. Similar ways... FB block, WR sweep look, naked.

Myself I'd get a little jittery putting my franchise QB out there all alone against a DE a number of times a game - that's my best guess as to why they do what they do. Would you like the odds of say Plummer/Griese rolling out naked against say a Jerry Porter, Jevon Kearse or Simeon Rice?

In the tight zone video, He doesn't really give a reason but he pretty much says it is because it is a "rollback" play and the DE might affect the play if he isn't blocked and the play rollsback because of the tailback reads. As opposed to wide zone where the end usually won't be a factor because it stretches the defense so much.

Joe,

Your last post of a few moments ago would be my exact opinion on why we should always block him!

JC

university of Minnesotta will leave the backside end unblocked since they use alot of 1 back and their QB is a pretty good running QB and alot of their passing game is based on bootleg playaction off the naked.

Blackfly what other ways does Loney talk about for handling the BSDE?

I'm not sure what level everyone is coaching here, but for me when I coached some DII college ball and now in high school we used a lot of receiver reverse fakes to play games with backside defenders. This year our jet motion worked great. It took some time early in camp to get the QBs timing down with snapping the ball where it needed to be snapped and doing his same footwork as he normally would, but adding the quick reverse fake to the WR. We are mostly a one back team. When we went to our 2TE 2 back formation we ran a scheme were we blocked inside zone playside, sent the fullback backside on the OLB and had our backside Lineman seal block any defender head up to outside shade. We told our tailback to look for cutback a little more when we ran this. Was a great play for us. We also had a athletic QB that we ran a good chuck of naked keep with. I think the best way to deal with the backside is to give them several different looks to keep them honest.

Coach Mc Carty,

that inside zone play looks interesting, So you are zone blocking playside and turnback blocking backside? How would it look against certain fronts you see? thanks

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So what happens it the lineman backside is covered head up? Does he try to influence him by stepping backside or does he step playside and the fullback is responsible for reading his block to determine where to enter to make his block?