The inside zone play has been a staple of our offense for years. The inside zone is a downhill, attitude run, where you want to create vertical displacement of defenders.
How many times have you called a run concept, only to have the back not see the crease? Or, how many times have you given up a TFL on a run through because one of your offensive linemen did not see the backer run through? The V Drill helped us eliminate many of these mistakes and enjoy much more success.
On the inside zone, we are going to use zone combination blocks. A zone combination block has 2 offensive linemen responsible for a down guy to a linebacker. We are going to get hip-to-hip and create movement on the down guy, with our eyes on the linebacker. Our offensive line must have great eye discipline to see the movement of the backer.
When we install inside zone, we like to scaffold our instruction. We start with individual drills, then we work in pods. When we work in pods, we will have drill we call the V Drill. We start with the OL working the drill in indy, through a teaching progression. Next, we move to a group POD, where have a running back working with 2 offensive linemen. We will have 2 defensive players, 1 down guy, and one linebacker.
