Inside Zone

Identify the Mike linebacker depth before the snap since a linebacker sitting shallow in the box signals run blitz and you should bounce this outside instead of hitting it downhill. Watch for a 3-4 odd front with a nose shaded over center, that alignment clogs the interior zone lanes and kills the cutback. Look at safety rotation post-snap, a single high safety crashing down fast is a sign of an aggressive run fit that you can counter with the RPO tags in this set. Beware of nano blitz packages that send extra rushers through the A gaps since zone blocking cannot always account for a delayed interior blitzer. This run gets stuffed by heavy fronts with quick-flowing linebackers but gashes light 2 high shells where the second level defenders are slow to trigger downhill.