Film Study - Kotelnicki's Use of Wide Zone

[CaliLION79]

KOTELNICKI WIDE ZONE FILM STUDY


See link above. Wide Zone 101. RB reads. OL assignments/techniques. Counter for the OC when the defense starts to cheat. We produced this one with a bit of hesitation since 3 years ago we gushed on and on about Yurcich's Wide Zone Rush attack at Oklahoma State...and other than a couple plays here and there, it was never really a staple at Penn State. No clue why it didn't work in Happy Valley other than the 2023 MSU game post-Yurcich.

Anyway, Kotelnicki's use of Wide Zone is more advanced, more nuanced, so hopefully his dominance at Buffalo (2nd in FBS in Yds/Rush using Wide Zone in 2020) and Kansas (11th in FBS in Yds/Rush on Wide Zone plays in 2023) carries over to his new gig. If not, we just wasted everyone's time again. Our bad.

 

[Obliviax]

Thanks. Excited about seeing this with Singlton and Kaytron. Plus, lots of depth. Both appear to be good blockers as well as runners and very unselfish.

 

[lazydave841]

Love to see some plays vs press coverage. Until our WRs and Allar make teams pay, I doubt we see this much zone defense.

 

[Obliviax]

Love to see some plays vs press coverage. Until our WRs and Allar make teams pay, I doubt we see this much zone defense.

totes. press man coverage on the WRs and the safeties not assigned a "man" press the LOS to stop the run. Until we beat that, we are going to see that base defense. This is what Illinois did and everyone has followed that template since then.