Coaching the Inside Zone: Using Football's Most Versatile Blocking Scheme to Ignite Your Offense

by David Weitz

All offenses across the country are dealing with the same problem. How do I create multiple looks to confuse the defense while keeping things simple for my players?The Inside Zone Blocking Scheme is the solution to this universal problem. The Inside Zone is the most run blocking scheme at the Professional, College and High School Level. This is due to its simple rules and multiple applications. By keeping the rules very simple the offensive line is able to master the concept. This allows them to spend valuable practice time working on the specific skills they need to master their role.The rules for the offensive line are simplified which allows the skill players to be used to control and confuse the defense. This simple window dressing has the effect of making the offense look complicated while the heart of the play never changes.In Coaching the Inside Zone you will learn the details of the Inside Zone Scheme •A simple universal set of blocking rules that will eliminate second-guessing from your linemen•The different responsibilities of the backfield and how they can be changed to confuse the defense•How to run the Inside Zone scheme from Under Center while still forcing the defense to defend the whole width of the field•How to run the Inside Zone scheme from the Shotgun and how to change defensive reads•Likely defensive responses and counters to keep them guessingTake the step to ignite your offense using one of football’s fundamental blocking schemes!

Genres: Football

46 pages, Paperback

Published June 1, 2017

About the author

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My name is David Weitz, I am a teacher and football coach at Hamilton Southeastern High School in Fishers, IN.

I'm lucky in that I am one of the few people who knew exactly what they wanted to do with their life by 3rd grade. I knew that I wanted to be a teacher and a football coach and I've been lucky enough to land my dream job.

I have a long history of coaching both rugby and football going all the way back to when I was in High School. While in High School I helped to create a youth rugby program in Indianapolis. This team started with one team of about 12 kids and has expanded to include over 100 kids. I continued to coach in this program throughout College. In addition to coaching this rugby team, I also coached football at Bloomington High School North and was a part of the school's first Semi-State Appearance.

After college, I wanted to experience playing rugby at a high level and moved to Hawkes Bay New Zealand. While in New Zealand I taught and coached rugby at Hastings Boys High School and played for Havelock North. During this time I completed the training for my IRB Level 2 Coaching Certification.

After a little over two years in New Zealand I moved back to America and resumed my football coaching career. Over the next 6 years, I coached at both Lawrence Central (for 1 year) and Warren Central where I was able to be a part of 2 State Championship Teams. At these schools, I held a variety of different positions on both the offensive and defensive side of the ball and was the Special Teams Coordinator. All of these experiences have helped me to develop for my current role as Offensive Coordinator at Hamilton Southeastern HS.

Throughout my coaching and teaching career, I have used writing as a way to help me work through my coaching philosophies. If you want to truly master your teaching philosophy and coaching process I have found the writing is the best tool. I attempt to give my readers a clear, and concise, picture of our philosophies and schemes without any extra fluff that many companies use to pad the page numbers of their books.

I always love to chat about football or rugby and would love the opportunity to connect with you. Twitter is probably the best way to reach me, I look forward to hearing from you!

Reviews

[Matthew Cullen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Succinct write up on a great scheme.

[Matthew Spoagis · Rating 5 out of 5]

Nice easy quick read for inside zone

Great insight to some of the basic rules to installing this play, also gives great variations to different situations and reads

[Ken · Rating 3 out of 5]

The refresh

I love football. I enjoy all the schemes and planing. I really enjoyed the terminology of this book, felt like I was talking to a friend