In American football, a zone blitz is a defensive tactic that sends additional players to rush the opposing team's quarterback, whilst also unexpectedly...

the ball, backpedaling into his assigned zone. Linebackers are either blitzing or in pass coverage. Blitzing linebackers can employ various stunts to...

later served as the team's head coach from 2000 to 2002) created the zone blitz in the 1980s in response to the West Coast offense. In addition, Despite...

stint as Cincinnati's defensive coordinator, LeBeau popularized the "zone blitz", which helped the Bengals make two Super Bowl appearances in Super Bowl...

defensive tackle may be to pursue the screen pass or drop into coverage in a zone blitz scheme. In a traditional 4–3 defense, there is no nose tackle. Instead...

left side, and to defend against screen passes. Since the creation of zone blitz defenses in the late 1990s, defensive ends have sometimes been used in...

linebackers blitz, the remaining linebacker(s) expands his zone to cover the zone responsibilities of the vacating linebacker(s). Often, blitzing will leave...

combination of zone and man coverage. zone blitz A defensive package combining a blitz with zone-pass coverage. Allows the defense to choose the blitzer after...

Play from scrimmage Play calling system Offense Defense Man-to-man Zone Blitz Zone blitz Special teams Touchback Kickoff Kickoff return Punt Punt return...

Collier designed. One idea he came up with was similar to the modern zone blitz; Collier's defense featured defensive line players moving back to cover...