The Buffalo Bill’s context versus the New York Gants and former offensive coordinator Brian Daboll didn’t go exactly as planned because the Giants put up a fight and the Bills had trouble with execution throughout most of the night. One of the plays they were able to pull off was a mid-zone run by James Cook. A mid-zone blocking scheme looks to attack the middle or strongside linebacker. Cook demonstrated success with this style of run for most of last season, and zone runs in general have worked again this year for the Bills. Through Week 6, the Bills have run 68 zone runs, which is only the 23rd most in the NFL. They are tied for third in total touchdowns on zone runs with five (San Francisco has 10), and they are also third in EPA and EPA/Attempt. Cook has 28 of those attempts and averages 4.9 yards/att (9th for RBs with 15+ such carries), and his four missed tackles rank eighth, while his EPA/att is 14th. Latavius Murray has the second most carries (16) on zone scheme runs, but Damien Harris has been the most successful RB generating an EPA/att of 0.37 on his 11 carries. Let’s look…