Originally posted by GraveyardFields:
It's still a zone based scheme. Riley's bread and butter running play has been the Inside Zone for years. The last couple of seasons, we'd really become predominantly an Outside Zone team to fit Ameer's talents. Inside Zone is simply where the OL blocks the guy in front of him if he's covered. If he's not, then he helps double team with the guy next to him (usually to the play side). Once they get a bit of push with the double team, one of the OL releases to block the LB at the second level. If you go back and watch some Oregon State games when they had good backs, they might run this play 20 times a game. We'll see a lot of this. And when they do utilize the read option or zone read, they will likely do so with IZ blocking. They will still run some Outside Zone too. It will just be less predominant if history is any indication.