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An offseason choice before the 2023 season, signing free agent Josh Jacobs and moving on from the aging Aaron Jones, forced the change in system. Jacobs lacks Jones' natural gliding speed to make the timing of outside zone work, but excelled in the phone booth spaces you have to live in running inside zone, duo, power, and most of the "gap scheme" family.
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Jacobs' skill set drove Packers' two-year offensive line rebuild toward gap scheme.

Josh Jacobs' signing before the 2023 season forced the Packers to change their offensive system from outside zone to gap scheme running. Jacobs lacks Aaron Jones' natural gliding speed for outside zone timing but excels in phone booth spaces and gap scheme family plays (inside zone, duo, power). The Packers have spent the past two seasons trying to build an offensive line suited to Jacobs' skill set, with recent veteran additions (Tomlinson, Becton, Zeitler) designed to provide vertical displacement for gap scheme runs rather than horizontal displacement for outside zone.

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