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this is a discussion within the Saints Community Forum; Originally Posted by Seer1 Great thread! This was Shanahan's bread and butter for a few years. It made some average running backs look real good. Say what you want about Elway, it was the blocking scheme that got him his ...

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Old 08-22-2012, 12:47 PM   #10
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Re: Why is zone blocking not illegal?

Originally Posted by Seer1 View Post
Great thread! This was Shanahan's bread and butter for a few years. It made some average running backs look real good. Say what you want about Elway, it was the blocking scheme that got him his rings. Kubiack took it with him to Houston and has evolved it there. While still fairly effective, like all things the other side figures out how to counter it and it loses its overwhelming advantage. Just looking at Denver's history, I'd almost say that it leads to running back injuries more than any position on the defense although I have nothing solid to back that up. Just none of the RB's lasted very long there and did nothing when moving to a different team. The defense hates it most because it makes them look stupid when it works.
"It was the blocking scheme that got him his rings"

That's an ignorant way to look at it. What about the DRIVE or the fact that Elway played against great defenses(ie the 90s giants)? You could say this for basically every qb ever. The way Elway avoided the sack? Plus the teams elway beat in the super bowls didn't have the great defenses anyway(packers) so the blockers doing what they did probably didn't change anything.
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