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I heard multiple times this year that "when the Seahawks go to Man Blocking, they have success.
I found a couple of articles that talk about the difference between Zone and Man.
For those of you unfamiliar with the Denver offensive line scheme, they use a technique known as "zone blocking".
In a "man" or "drive" blocking scheme the lineman is responsible for an individual, and the play is designed for a running back to hit a particular gap.
The zone blocking scheme, on the other hand, has a lineman blocking an area instead of a designated defensive player. If multiple linemen are blocking an area than one can break off and block into the second level
http://www.footballoutsiders.com/stat-a ... n-blocking
What Is: Gap Blocking vs. Zone
By Seth — January 27th, 2017 at 2:00 PM
http://mgoblog.com/content/what-gap-blocking-vs-zone
Man blocking schemes are the easiest for coaches to teach and for linemen, and backs to learn. All they need to do is be able to count.
https://www.xandolabs.com/conceptblocki ... ckman.html
By Rich Alercio Offensive Line Researcher X&O Labs
In a 25-year career as an offensive line coach and clinician for youth, high school and college coaching staffs, I have come to one conclusion: Teams have way too many running plays with varying blocking schemes in their offenses. They block one play this way and another play that way.
For example, they think if the 3-technique shifts to a 1-tech a different play must be called. I have always subscribed to the K.I.S.S. (Keep It Simple Stupid) methodology, especially for the big guys up front. The offensive linemen do not care about all the creative ways you can get the ball to your best player and all the window dressing used to do so. They just want to have great confidence in knowing what step to take and where to take it.
https://www.xandolabs.com/conceptblocki ... block.html
Differences between the zone and power running schemes
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/foo ... 5c648ea5eb
I found a couple of articles that talk about the difference between Zone and Man.
For those of you unfamiliar with the Denver offensive line scheme, they use a technique known as "zone blocking".
In a "man" or "drive" blocking scheme the lineman is responsible for an individual, and the play is designed for a running back to hit a particular gap.
The zone blocking scheme, on the other hand, has a lineman blocking an area instead of a designated defensive player. If multiple linemen are blocking an area than one can break off and block into the second level
http://www.footballoutsiders.com/stat-a ... n-blocking
What Is: Gap Blocking vs. Zone
By Seth — January 27th, 2017 at 2:00 PM
http://mgoblog.com/content/what-gap-blocking-vs-zone
Man blocking schemes are the easiest for coaches to teach and for linemen, and backs to learn. All they need to do is be able to count.
https://www.xandolabs.com/conceptblocki ... ckman.html
By Rich Alercio Offensive Line Researcher X&O Labs
In a 25-year career as an offensive line coach and clinician for youth, high school and college coaching staffs, I have come to one conclusion: Teams have way too many running plays with varying blocking schemes in their offenses. They block one play this way and another play that way.
For example, they think if the 3-technique shifts to a 1-tech a different play must be called. I have always subscribed to the K.I.S.S. (Keep It Simple Stupid) methodology, especially for the big guys up front. The offensive linemen do not care about all the creative ways you can get the ball to your best player and all the window dressing used to do so. They just want to have great confidence in knowing what step to take and where to take it.
https://www.xandolabs.com/conceptblocki ... block.html
Differences between the zone and power running schemes
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/foo ... 5c648ea5eb