Originally Posted by PP2

This is an interesting thing to discuss, and I think it will be a great game too and can't wait to watch it on Monday night. Very exciting.

The problem with the zone blocking scheme is that you block whoever shows up in front of you, not a specific player. My thought on that is Spikes will cause some big headaches with this. If you have seen him, you know he has an uncanny ability to time the snap count. My believe is that in addition to focusing on stopping the run, Spikes will be one-gapping along with one or two more linemen who will try to shoot through the zones.

With the bootleg, as you described it, is not a play-action (at least not to my knowledge). I think the same principle as above would threaten. The concept of "contain" rushing would serve to seal the edge on any bootleg/naked bootleg, and you would still have the one-gapping backer or lineman crashing at an angle to minimize the vertical gain of the bootleg.

Originally Posted by 76Texan

Obviously a LB shooting through the gap would work too, but if they come from the second level, it won't be as effective (too far of a distance).
But if one can blow up our Hybrid FB/Te Casey, it will be hard for us to gain yard as well; and Casey can never be compared to Vonta Leach as a blocking machine.

In fact, this is where our inside zone run becomes ineffective.
And the Pats certainly have the LBs to do that.

Originally Posted by PP2

Chung hasn't been playing in base. He only comes on in nickel as the 3rd safety. That's how far down the depth chart he is.