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[QUOTE="Finwad32, post: 1732225, member: 651"]
Good points. You can run out of any formation you like. It would all depend on how our opponent wants to cover it or defend us. Really, the defense determines what we run and how we run it. It's the beauty of this offense to be able to run these plays out of a ton of looks and personnel groupings.

But by having 2 run a slant on the playside, which would typically be our Z, or TE in your example, you're disregarding the inside zone run. The base concept is the run look with the bubble as an option or outlet. That block is one of the most crucial play side, lb's are typically some of the best athletes on the field and they can easily blow up that run.

As you know, the progression all comes from LDE. If he crashes QB pulls creating a 2 on 1 on the edge. If he hedges, give to the RB and you've got the play all blocked up numbers wise.

If you want to you can run an RPO focused on that backer, but the route would typically be different.

Now, if we get to the line and don't like our look, because of the speed of hand signaling, we'll have an EZ call. It's a fake cadence that gives us a blitz look and then we audible to our strength.

In terms of who should run this, high schoolers are not going to be able to block this at the majority of high schools nationally. At the next level we've been fine. Our starting OL avg's roughly 88-89% in terms of blocking correctly, communication is key. And that's the entire offense throughout a game, on a base concept like this the percentage is higher by the time we get to the season.

You've got a good concept, it just doesn't hold with this particular play imo.
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