Coaching the Inside Zone

Using Football's Most Versatile Blocking Scheme to Ignite Your Offense

By: David Weitz

Narrated by: Christopher Thorn

All offenses across the country are dealing with the same problem. How do I create multiple looks to confuse the defense while keeping things simple for my players? The inside zone blocking scheme is the solution to this universal problem.

The inside zone is the most-run blocking scheme at the professional, collegiate, and high school levels. This is due to its simple rules and multiple applications. By keeping the rules very simple, the offensive line is able to master the concept. This allows linemen to spend valuable practice time working on the specific skills they need to master their role.

The rules for the offensive line are simplified, which allows the skill players to be used to control and confuse the defense. This simple window dressing has the effect of making the offense look complicated, while the heart of the play never changes.

In Coaching the Inside Zone, you will learn the details of the inside zone scheme, including:

• A simple universal set of blocking rules that will eliminate second-guessing from your linemen
• The different responsibilities of the backfield and how they can be changed to confuse the defense
• How to run the inside zone scheme from under center while still forcing the defense to defend the whole width of the field
• How to run the inside zone scheme from the shotgun and how to change defensive reads
• Likely defensive responses and counters to keep them guessing

Take the step to ignite your offense using one of football’s fundamental blocking schemes!

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Very informative

Good content, definitely made me think a little more about how to be more efficient in calling in side zone

Very Useful

Enjoyed it. Very practical and easy to understand. Examples and logic provided optimises the learning curve for offensive and defensive coaches alike.

From a Defensive Guy

Coming from a defensive guy, I bought this book to better understand the progression of the inside zone. Also to try and get into the offensvie coordinator thought process when calling thos offense. This book is a steal for just that. Other ways this book could be used it to help offensive players understand the whole concept of the offensive play. Great book coming from the defensive guy who goes to the offensive clinics!

Great Coaching

Great coaching. Enough detail to help run the concept. Will use this season. Definitely recommend to others.

Great info for fans, players and nerds like me

Great book for a fan and stat nerd of the game to combine the concept of Inside Zone with the crunched numbers for a stat nerd