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From Christl's blog:
The coaching profession sometimes makes for strange bedfellows. This year, offensive coordinator Jeff Jagodzinski has introduced the Green Bay Packers to a zone blocking scheme, which calls for cut blocks on the backside of running plays. Jagodzinski learned the scheme under Alex Gibbs in Atlanta the past two years. From 1993-'94, Gibbs was an assistant in Kansas City, a team that made effective use of cut blocks, particularly with its wide receivers. Mike McCarthy, the Packers' new head coach, was an offensive quality control coach those two years with the Chiefs.
A cut block is when an offensive player throws his body into the knees of a defender. It's a legal block if the defender isn't engaged with another blocker.
After Gibbs left, but while McCarthy was still with the Chiefs, there were two incidents in 1996 that stirred controversy, if not outright bitterness.
One occurred in a game against Seattle on Oct. 17. Kansas City wide receiver Chris Penn blindsided linebacker Winston Moss with a cut back. An enraged Moss retailiated and was thrown out of the game, although the NFL subsequently fined Penn $5,000 for an illegal cut block. Ten days later, Kansas City's Dale Carter, a Pro Bowl corner lining up at wide receiver, cut block Denver cornerback Lionel Washington. Washington suffered a partially torn knee ligament and while he was being attended to by the medical staff, Carter stood near him laughing.
Today, Moss and Washington are defensive assistants for the Packers, working with offensive coaches who won't apologize for teaching cut blocks and working for a head coach who was viewed as the enemy a decade ago.
Interesting, if not ironic.
The coaching profession sometimes makes for strange bedfellows. This year, offensive coordinator Jeff Jagodzinski has introduced the Green Bay Packers to a zone blocking scheme, which calls for cut blocks on the backside of running plays. Jagodzinski learned the scheme under Alex Gibbs in Atlanta the past two years. From 1993-'94, Gibbs was an assistant in Kansas City, a team that made effective use of cut blocks, particularly with its wide receivers. Mike McCarthy, the Packers' new head coach, was an offensive quality control coach those two years with the Chiefs.
A cut block is when an offensive player throws his body into the knees of a defender. It's a legal block if the defender isn't engaged with another blocker.
After Gibbs left, but while McCarthy was still with the Chiefs, there were two incidents in 1996 that stirred controversy, if not outright bitterness.
One occurred in a game against Seattle on Oct. 17. Kansas City wide receiver Chris Penn blindsided linebacker Winston Moss with a cut back. An enraged Moss retailiated and was thrown out of the game, although the NFL subsequently fined Penn $5,000 for an illegal cut block. Ten days later, Kansas City's Dale Carter, a Pro Bowl corner lining up at wide receiver, cut block Denver cornerback Lionel Washington. Washington suffered a partially torn knee ligament and while he was being attended to by the medical staff, Carter stood near him laughing.
Today, Moss and Washington are defensive assistants for the Packers, working with offensive coaches who won't apologize for teaching cut blocks and working for a head coach who was viewed as the enemy a decade ago.
Interesting, if not ironic.
