It looked like we abandoned the ZBS scheme in this game. Our O-line was more physical than finesse and pushin the bears d-line back.
"JNelson87" wrote:
The tenants of ZBS don't necessarily involve cut blocking every time. The important principle is getting blocking in the second level, so the LBs and DB are covered. The ZBS thrives on having cutback lanes, not cut blocking per se.
Generally cut blocking is used to clear out a cut back lane, but those cut-back lanes can also be created in other ways. For example, LT pushes his man outside, LG pushes his man inside. You have a gap between the two, which the FB would go through and block / cut-block a player on the 2nd level. In such a scenario, the RB starts out right, but then can cutback to the left to go through the hole between the LT and LG, and technically has some of the 2nd level defenders blocked or down on the field via cut block, creating some space to do something.
The Packers put on a ZB clinic, a beat writer said it best when wondering if it was the Packers o-line or the Broncos o-line out there.
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