History and Evolution: Power O - Bonus - "Power" within the Zone Architecture

It always bothered me when, in Michigan, Rich Rod called his comedy "Out of the Zone" "Power." Football terminology, as you know, does not match from program to program, when the same word can mean completely different things. But Power has established a kind of convention and consistency, it's a front unit with a rear pickup, a real break/man circuit. However, there is Rich Rod, who refers to the Outer Zone as "The Force". I had a headache for a long time until one day I looked through a book by Joe Gibbs and was amazed by the explanation.

As I noted in the History and Evolution series, Power itself was originally geared towards the Power Sweep as sort of a variation on a number of internal moves and options. As Option Teams (often like Wing T) moved more and more into the block zones in the 1970s, Power had to adapt to what they were doing. Rarely does this squad stretch across formats, mostly block zones, random traps in the top rounds, and maybe edge dragging.

So, arguing in the sense of not pulling the blocker (even over the limit), you wonder how else you can go beyond the pharmacy. The response will block the zone with a detour that will attempt to open the lane. And you will learn this from Joe Gibbs' textbook (which also contains the traditional Force O of the time).

The Outer Zone Host's "power" is a family heirloom of Joe Gibbs. Here he composes "The Power" and "The Power of O" pic.twitter.com/Ul0JhBHCQn

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Now it's not hard to understand the idea behind this and how he can approach more traditional strength. When you think of traditional strength, you think of an ejection device that pulls out of the back and front combo at the back of the game.

The easiest way to think of this Gibbs "strength" is to first think of the inner zone, in particular the leading inner zone. In the inside of the head, your RL controls the front of the LB, the same player that controls the back in traditional Power O. Since your LB controls the front of the LB, zone combinations that used to be vertical are now a Level 2 person. In other words , the front combination now works on the second level.

So your traditional zone looks like this (here with blocks separated by FB):

And it becomes something like:

And what looks impressive is the only rear Power O where FB replaces the back of a pickup.

Now remember that for zone teams they are actually working on Power Sweep, but it's basically the same concept, except that the blocks ahead are blocks outside the zone. This essentially means that instead of combos working on the future side of the game, they will be more vertical in the main outer zone, but the idea is the same, the aiming point is the player in the back, because FB considers the LB game to be the main blocker. (assuming the rear role was traditionally performed as a head blocker in Power O).

And that's how Rich Rod and Joe Gibbs discovered "The Force" as an out-of-zone game, and that's exactly what it looks like (here with a fake stream split in the back).

This is how "Power" became (with a fake branch from Belarus) pic.twitter.com/0k5oAPkz3U

— Space Coyote (@SpaceCoyoteBDS) August 13, 2020

Here he is with some defenders on the goal line

And it is protected by an older version of the same side pass as the slot (note: the outer WR passes the path used when the player's base falls to deal with the inner vertical).

Note: They both keep the traditional O abilities as part of their crimes, but at least in the case of Rich Rod, the blockade does not bring any benefit.

History and evolution - come on

Part I. The Origin of the Power Circuit

Part II . Strength without a grip is called strength.

Part III - The Modern Era of Multi-Power