The Differences Between Wide Zone and Wide Zone Play Action

There are different ways to put those players in conflict and there are different directions to kind of pull them into conflict. Kyle Shanahan displaces linebackers side to side horizontally rather than verbally. And that's where you see the differences in scheme. The Titans under Arthur Smith, when Brian Tanhill and Derek Henry were really cooking a couple of years ago up against the Kyle Shanahan and Sean McVay teams of the same time because McVay and Shanahan were running wide zone play action. They're trying to run Derek Henry right at him. So their plaction offers a little bit more verticality to it. It manipulates a guy and then creates more space on a dropbackWhere you can't