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0:00if you want to get better at coaching
0:01the fundamentals of the mesh point
0:02between the quarterback and running back
0:04with inside zone read then stay tuned
0:06because I'm gonna break it down for you
0:08[Music]
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0:40okay today's video is all about the
0:42fundamentals between the quarterback and
0:43running back at the mesh point with
0:45inside zone Reed I'm gonna show you what
0:47it looks like on paper and then also tie
0:49that with a few game Clips so you can
0:51get an idea of how you can coach it up
0:53for your players before we get to the
0:55clip I'll just quickly go over the pre
0:57snap rules for the running back and the
0:59quarterback and where their alignment is
1:01so starting with a quarterback no matter
1:03what play it is I always have the
1:05quarterbacks toes at five yards pass
1:07play run play doesn't matter what run
1:09play it is we're always at five yards I
1:11never want to adjust the depth of the
1:13quarterback so his toes are at five and
1:15then we move the running back based on
1:16what play it is and so if we're going
1:18zone read to the left here our depth of
1:21the run for the running backs are
1:22anywhere between six to eight yards now
1:25I'm for the slower backs you will want
1:29to put them a little bit closer to the
1:30quarterback so so for guys that take a
1:32little bit longer to get to top speed
1:34you want them probably closer to six
1:36yards whereas faster backs that can get
1:38to top speed very quickly you can move
1:41those guys back and they can be probably
1:43the guys that are at eight yards so
1:44anywhere between six to eight yards is
1:46the depth of the running back and then
1:48their alignment is that they are going
1:50to straddle the outside leg of the
1:53backside guard so it would be this right
1:55guard right here where our running back
1:56is gonna be straddling his outside leg
1:59and so that really is basically how we
2:01set up were offset and we're setting up
2:04this way if we're if we were to be
2:06running zone read to the left and now
2:08obviously against this even front we're
2:10gonna be reading the number three
2:12defender to the back side
2:13if you're unsure of the number system
2:14then I suggest watching that video that
2:16I made previously about blocking inside
2:18zone read and versus an even front but
2:20in this situation here with their six
2:22guys in the box we're gonna be reading
2:24this defensive end now just real quick
2:26before we get to the film if you don't
2:28know the read for the quarterback is
2:31he's gonna read this defensive end so if
2:33this defensive end gets across the line
2:35of scrimmage he sits here on the L OS
2:37and stays home then our quarterback is
2:39gonna ride and decide at the mesh point
2:41and give the ball to the running back
2:42for inside zone read to the left now if
2:44the defensive end comes across the line
2:46of scrimmage and he squeezes down the
2:48line of scrimmage here or he gets across
2:50and he chases the tail of the running
2:52back and the quarterback is gonna rip
2:53the ball out and then he's gonna keep it
2:55for himself on zone read okay so there's
2:58the the alignment for the quarterback
2:59and running back and then that's the
3:02read for the quarterback when we're
3:03going zone read to the left here so now
3:05let's get into some of the fundamentals
3:07and what the footwork looks like for
3:09both the quarterback and running back
3:10with zone read in this example we're
3:12going inside zone read to the left so
3:14you can see our quarterbacks toes are at
3:16five yards our running back is about six
3:18and a half yards and he's lined up
3:20straddling the outside leg of the the
3:22right guard here and then our
3:24quarterback is gonna be reading number
3:2517 here this stand-up the defensive end
3:28because we've identified him as the
3:30third defender to the backside now
3:33looking at the footwork and fundamentals
3:35for the quarterback his first step when
3:37he gets the ball from the center is that
3:38he's gonna step in the bucket with his
3:41right foot and I usually communicate
3:43that with them by telling him to step in
3:45the bucket with the near foot to the
3:47back so if we're going zone read to the
3:49left and that means they're stepping in
3:50the bucket with their right foot and
3:52then from there I want to get their toes
3:54in the ground and their toes need to be
3:56parallel to each other and we're
3:58squaring up the defensive end from the
4:00ground up so I tell my quarterbacks it's
4:03as if you were playing basketball and
4:05you were D in them up in basketball
4:07that's kind of the position that I want
4:08them to be in and really what I'm trying
4:10to get accomplished is that I want my
4:11quarterbacks to set the path for the
4:14running back so that the back can run
4:16down the toes of the quarterback to his
4:18aiming point and so you can see when our
4:22quarterback gets the the snap from the
4:23center it balls a little bit to the left
4:25but it's not too bad but our court
4:27takes kind of this false step and steps
4:28out with his left foot now that's not
4:30great because what happens is then you
4:33get some disconnect at the meshed
4:34quarterbacks working away from the mesh
4:36point and it's just a little bit harder
4:37throws throws everything off from there
4:39so we don't want to lose too much ground
4:42we don't want to step too far in the
4:44bucket and our quarterback does a pretty
4:46decent job of getting back in position
4:48to get to the mesh point I want my
4:50quarterback at that point to put the
4:52ball on the backside leg so if we're
4:54going zone read to the left I want him
4:56to put the ball on his right leg I don't
4:58want him to keep it in the center of his
4:59body because I want that ball in the
5:01belly of the back as early as possible
5:03that way it gives the quarterback enough
5:06time to be able to read that defensive
5:08end and make a good decision and so when
5:11the balls on his right leg and they are
5:13at the mesh point together that's where
5:16I talked to the quarterbacks about ride
5:18and decide so that window of writing the
5:21mesh point before making a decision is
5:23the back leg to the front leg so for
5:26this example it would be from the right
5:27leg to the left leg by the time the ball
5:30gets to hit the quarterbacks the left
5:32leg a decision has to be made he's
5:34either got to give the ball to the
5:35running back or he's got to rip it out
5:37of the belly of the back and keep it for
5:39himself if he continues to ride too far
5:42and for too long so the balls past his
5:45front leg now then usually bad things
5:47happened because the running back thinks
5:48he's getting the football and if the
5:50quarterback makes a late decision to
5:52keep it for himself and tries to rip it
5:54out it could go off the hip of the back
5:56and usually just bad things happen
5:58that's what most the time when the ball
5:59ends up on the turf so that window of
6:02riding and deciding is from the back leg
6:04to the front leg and so you'll see in
6:06this example that our quarterback does a
6:08pretty good job of putting that ball in
6:09the back leg he gets to the mesh point
6:11meets the running back and he's riding
6:13in deciding with his eyes on 17 here now
6:17the one thing that I don't like very
6:19much about this clip is that the
6:20quarterback is just a little off-balance
6:22you can see how much he's playing in his
6:24toes he's really leaning forward and
6:27he's not really playing with his cleats
6:29in the ground I don't like that because
6:30really what you're seeing here is that
6:32he's cutting the path of the running
6:33back off he's almost running into his
6:35own player here and it's making it hard
6:37for that running back to hit his aiming
6:39point so
6:41he's got to do a better job of keeping
6:42his cleats in the ground not playing on
6:44his toes not leaning forward and
6:46disrupting the mesh point he does make a
6:49good decision though because that
6:50defensive end stays home he plays wide
6:52so that's a give for our quarterback and
6:55then what I really like from here is
6:56that the quarterback completes the play
6:59or finishes his job by sprinting out of
7:01the mesh even though he doesn't have the
7:03football and sprinting past the line of
7:06scrimmage
7:06I want my quarterbacks to sprint past
7:09the line of scrimmage five yards past
7:11the line of scrimmage because I'm gonna
7:12hold off as many backside players as I
7:15can whether that's a defender whether
7:17that's the backside linebacker or even
7:19the safety that's over the top and so if
7:22I can sell this and show that I may have
7:24the football by sprinting out then
7:26you'll see that you will hold off some
7:29of these players and take them away from
7:31the football and obviously that's a good
7:33thing so make sure that your
7:35quarterbacks if it's a give for them
7:36don't let them off easy by watching them
7:38jog out of the mesh point and not hustle
7:41downfield make it a drill where they
7:43give the ball to the running back and
7:45they sprint past the line of scrimmage
7:46510 yards down the field as if they were
7:50to have the football get it ingrained in
7:51their head that that is a part of the
7:53play their jobs not done once they give
7:56the ball up to the running back now as
7:57far as the fundamentals for the running
8:00back goes so he's outside leg in the
8:03guard his first step is gonna be with
8:05his play side foot so his left foot here
8:06and this is what I call the J step and I
8:08stole this from Chip Kelly and so he's
8:10gonna take a J step and so really he's
8:13gonna step out a 45 degree angle with
8:15his play side foot so you'll see that
8:16there that's his first step notice that
8:19he's keeping his hips in his shoulders
8:20square this is really important because
8:22there's three options for the running
8:23back to consider once he gets the
8:25football but he's gonna step with his
8:27left foot and then he's gonna replace
8:29that with his backside foot and so you
8:31can see that there so really it's step
8:33replace or J step so with zone read you
8:36can kind of see how it forms a back
8:38backwards J if it were to be zone read
8:40to the right then it would form just a
8:42regular J here so we want him step in
8:46with his play side foot and then we want
8:47him replacing and we want him to keep
8:49his shoulders and hips parallel to the
8:53line of scrimmage as long as he can
8:54so he does a really good job of doing
8:57this here and the biggest mistake that I
8:58see runningbacks make at this point when
9:01they're in the mesh point running zone
9:02Reed is that their shoulders are now in
9:05this direction here and their eyes are
9:07this way this is a huge mistake because
9:11one of the great things about zone Reed
9:13is the cut back lanes but if your
9:15shoulders are not parallel to the line
9:16of scrimmage and they're at this angle
9:19here then you're really cutting your
9:20vision off to be able to see the
9:22backside open up and so that's why I
9:25always talk to our running backs about
9:27making sure that their shoulders stay
9:29parallel to the line of scrimmage and
9:31that they can see there are three
9:33options of either bouncing it outside to
9:35the play side banging it in one of the a
9:38gaps or being able to cut it back and
9:40slip out the back side so you can see
9:42the running back does a great job of
9:44that and then from here it once the
9:47running back gets the football we want
9:49him to press the opposite or the play
9:51side a gap as long as possible and right
9:53away this was an obvious decision for
9:56the running back anyone could run
9:57through that hole right there I don't
9:58know what the defense was doing and so
10:00our running back bangs it through the
10:01hole and gets a pretty good gain out of
10:04that okay I want to show you this clip
10:06because there's a lot of good things
10:07that are happening here between the
10:08quarterback and the running back their
10:09fundamentals and because of that it
10:11leads to a really positive play for big
10:14yards and so same thing zone Reed to the
10:17left we're reading the third defender to
10:19the backside so that's that defensive
10:20end there and different quarterback and
10:23different running back but you'll also
10:24notice that they have very similar
10:26footwork similar fundamentals so going
10:29through this as we're going zone Reed to
10:30the left
10:31looking at the quarterback does a good
10:33job of stepping in the bucket
10:34allowing the running back to have that
10:38path there to run down his toes to his
10:40play side a gap remember
10:42aiming point for the running back is the
10:43play side a gap you'll also notice that
10:45the the quarterback is putting the ball
10:47getting ready to put a ball on his
10:48backside leg you can see kind of how his
10:50arms are angled here that he's meeting
10:53the running back at the mesh point and
10:54his eyes are locked on this defensive
10:57end his read key and as he goes through
10:59the mesh point now is when ride in to
11:02side begins so he's gonna ride the mesh
11:05all the way to his front leg and then
11:07leading up to the mesh
11:08without running back you watch this
11:10footwork here and how similar it is to
11:11the back in the first clip his first
11:13step is 45 degrees towards his aiming
11:15point so there's his his step and then
11:18he's gonna replace so that's the J step
11:20that I'm talking about right there
11:21he's gonna step and then replace that
11:24foot with his backside foot okay now as
11:27you're repping this out and your work in
11:28the mesh point with your backs make sure
11:30they before you just throw them in into
11:33the fire here get them used to those two
11:35steps so make them feel have them feel
11:37both both of those steps so have them
11:39you know step 45 degrees towards their
11:41aiming point and then have them replace
11:44their backside foot so make sure they
11:46get that feel of what that what that's
11:47like for their cleats to be in the
11:49ground like that and then once they get
11:51those two steps down just have it repeat
11:52those two steps over and over again
11:54until they understand the step and
11:57replace and then once that happens and
11:59they get comfortable you'll notice it
12:00kind of turns into a little bit of a
12:02skip for the back so step and replace
12:04and now we're ready to go to the mesh
12:06what I really like about this at the
12:08mesh point is the relationship between
12:11the quarterback and their running back
12:12here quarterbacks not so much on his
12:13toes and the running back does a great
12:15job with his shoulders and how they're
12:18parallel to the line line of scrimmage
12:19just like I talked about in the previous
12:21clip his shoulders are right there right
12:23so that allows him to be able to see the
12:25whole field he can see the play side
12:27whether to bounce that he can bang it
12:30here and he still has the option to be
12:31able to come out and slip out the back
12:33side okay and just like I said in the
12:35first clip if his inge if his shoulders
12:37were more angled like like here because
12:39he's dead set on his aiming point then
12:42really he's only got these two options
12:43and if you're only taking two out of the
12:46three options you're really missing out
12:47on the benefit of running zone read
12:50because most of the time the big plays
12:52come from slipping out the back side and
12:54hitting those cut back lanes so again
12:56when you're machine and you're working
12:58this in your everyday everyday drills
13:01between your quarterbacks and running
13:02backs watch your running backs and make
13:04sure that they keep their shoulders and
13:06hips parallel to the line of scrimmage
13:07as they press up against their aiming
13:09point don't allow them to turn their
13:11shoulders and get their shoulders angled
13:13to where they're only playing one side
13:15of the field okay you can see right here
13:18how our running back with this shoulders
13:20parallel he's already peeking
13:22to the backside here and he's already
13:23looking at slipping off the back the
13:25reason being is because he knows
13:27priority is pressing the a gap and then
13:29if that's not there then he's got the
13:31option to bounce it outside so keep
13:34those shoulders parallel our back does a
13:36great job of that he realizes that that
13:39defensive ends way upfield which means
13:41that opens up a huge window that got
13:44sealed off from our right tackle to be
13:46able to run through our quarterback as
13:48he rides and decides at the mesh point
13:50he sees that defensive end play wide and
13:53upfield and so as he rides he makes the
13:57decision to give the ball to the running
13:58back our running back sees that window
14:01right there there's no one there and
14:02that leaves this place I'd linebacker to
14:05come all the way from the right side of
14:06the field to try to make a tackle here
14:07we have that walled-off running back
14:09does a great job he slips out the back
14:11side hits the cutback Lane and it's a
14:14huge play for us alright coach thanks
14:16for watching and tuning in today of how
14:18to coach the fundamentals of the mesh
14:20point between the quarterback and
14:21running back with the inside zone Reed
14:23if you have any questions about what I
14:25went over today or you'd like more
14:27clarification on the fundamentals and
14:29how to drill that out please let me know
14:31either drop a comment below or send me
14:33an email and I'd be happy to help you
14:34guys out lastly if you want to continue
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