On this week's installment of "In the NZone" with long time offensive coordinator Noel Mazzone, Keith and Noel discuss building a game plan to neutralize a defender who can ruin the game, but also finding the player who is the weak link and attacking him.

The episode concludes with a discussion on trick plays.

-Story from Texas A&M vs. Tennessee

-Finding the Ruin the Day Guy or the Fish

-Helping on an End

-Helping on the Interior

-Buster/Nudge Protection

-Handling the Alley defender

-Conflicting the OLB/SS

-Giving a “ruin the game guy” more to think about

-Handling the Mike LB

-Going after a corner - making them roll coverage

-Shots then second and long calls

-QB understanding

-Why & when meetings

-The safety - easiest to handle because of conflicts

-Adding a gap to create the perfect run conflict player

-Favorite tricks

-Ted Lasso

-Chuck Amato

-The trick play board

-Trick play stories

-When to call a trick play

-Not calling tricks in the “typical” situations

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