Inside Zone News Today

Is this the end of the P.J. Fleck era at Minnesota?

I apologize for this taking awhile to get out but gravity hasn’t been functioning properly since last Monday night, and it’s hard to type when your feet won’t touch the ground. I was also trying to wrap my head around all of the parts of Michigan’s pass defense to show you, until I realized that’s going to require an entire UFR (that and the Rose Bowl one forthcoming). So let’s do something simple that you can show your friends and relatives for equal enjoyment, that being the Michig...

The end of a magical season

14 down. One more to go.

The Dawgs prove in Vegas that they can duke it out with anyone

Going through with my first re-watch of the game last night, and wanted to make a post to go over what I'm seeing on the first drive in terms of playcalling from Zac and how/why it worked so well. ...

If you were around for the first Rich Rod year, when Michigan's offensive talent wasn't on the same level as most of their competition's, you may remember there would often be some cute trick in the Wolverines gameplan. This gambit would work for a quarter before the defensive coaches got a moment to explain what's happening. Their answer would stress another part of the late-aughts Michigan offense that couldn't take it, and that would be that. Still, the yards and scor...

The Huskies head back to the lab to concoct a run game and defensive pressure

Fuller This is a companion piece to last week's refresher on inside zone, Michigan's new base play. Outside Zone, also known as the Zone Stretch, is one of two very common complementary plays to IZ, because the technique for the offense isn't very different, but the way the defense has to defend it is (the other complementary play is Power-O, Michigan's extremely nominal base play the last few years). OZ Resources: Smart Football, Roll Bama Roll, FishDuck (Oregon), BTSC (Stee...

I get asked every year to break down some of the Eagles’ main concepts, so here you go. Using Logan Radke’s Eagles’ offensive manual to make this easier, I wanted to go and look at what makes the...