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Film Study: How OSU Uses the Zone Slice/Zone Bluff in its Running Game

Last week, I covered Oklahoma State’s Insert Iso running concept. This week, we continue on with our X’s and O’s breakdown with a look at the running attack, and more specifically: the Zone Slice and Zone Bluff. Before I go into further detail, you can find the other posts in the series below:

In my Outside Zone post, along with my post game film studies from last season, we’ve seen what Chuba Hubbard and this Cowboy offensive line can do with zone running plays. As a reminder, the terms inside zone and outside zone refer to blocking schemes that have the offensive linemen blocking specific gaps instead of a certain defender.