Kyle Flood, when he was the offensive line coach at Rutgers broke down every block into three phases; approach, contact, and follow through. We will map those in a slightly different way to assess the performance of AJ Blazek’s unit in the Ash, “power spread” era.
Approach
Ash said countless times that that plays are the same even if the sets are different. “If you are going to run power, you are going to run power.” (9:20 mark) The new coaching staff philosophy differed from the previous two, as they installed a “power spread” rather than a “pro-set”.