There is a good description of zone blocking over at the over-acronymed DGDB&D.
Buffalo tried some zone blocking this season, but it didn’t work out so well and they gave up on it pretty quickly. Unfortunately, not much else worked either… They ranked 25th in run blocking this season and 13th in pass blocking according to Football Outsiders.
The really weird thing is that despite having Jason Peters and Derrick Dockery over on the left side, the Bills were horrible on runs to the left. They ranked 29th on rushes out left and 23rd on middle left. Middle right got them 19th place, but right tackle was 6th, and right end 26th. On the other hand, there were only 32 rushes to the far left, so a small sample size probably explains some of it.
For the record, the acronym stands for “Da Good, Da Bad, and DeMeco.” Long story.
Comment by Matt — January 14, 2008 @ 7:18 pm
Oy. That name is so terrible that I love it…
Comment by Kevin Feasel — January 15, 2008 @ 7:10 am