re: Youth Flag Football help

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you dont blitz, thats the whole point. you bait them and frustrate them

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Once we quit blitzing, our defense became an interception machine.

OP, if the center can catch we had a play where we would flood all other receivers to one side of the field and slip the center out the other way. That play is always money for a first down, td or 2 point play.

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Got it. That's definitely a strategy but I'd argue that you should use the non blitz to catch them napping. If you almost never blitz, they will have a lot of time to find someone open. In our league a QB has 7 seconds to throw which is an eternity to cover. If you don't blitz my QB, he will find someone in less than 7 seconds.

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I mainly coach in a league where you can blitz 2 form 3 yards and qb can run and its 7v7

but the younger ages are exactly what alot of teams that have success without having the best athletes do in the younger ages which are played with same rules OP described.

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That's going to be a big problem...

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Toss dive on every play. Not long ago you could make millions on that play alone.

Start off by informing the kids "this isn't 'football', it's 'smear the queer,'" you'll be unvoluntold about 5 minutes after all the kids get home and tell their parents the new name.

hells bells, i’m in the same boat

coached sports in the past but never flag football

all i know is many of the teams are composed of the same players from previous seasons, like they all have wrist playbooks.

meanwhile, alot of the players on my team never even played flag football

i have an hour practice tomorrow and our first game is this weekend

im so cooked

I never coached football before and never formally played on a team . I have only done backyard/schoolyard ball as well as be a die hard football fan. I’m not good with X’s and O’s. I was put in this position when my kid went from the 2nd and 3rd grade age group to the 4th and 5th grade age group. The coaches kids were in 2nd grade and my kid moved up. All the kids at his school moved up and had no coach. Myself and another dad was begged to coach.


I love it. The kids just love playing together and bonding. Grant it, we are not the greatest team, but we take the games seriously and have played better teams to the end and have had quite a few upsets along the way.

There is a flag football playbook you can buy online. I used that for many plays, I also just googled them. As I got experience I crafted some plays on my own.

Unfortunately this spring they put us in the elite division because we did very well in the middle division last year, but lost two of our top players to soccer. We got dragged up and down the field the first three games and it was frustrating. The next three are against the lower teams in the division.

Yes we want to win every game we play, but to me the importance is development, team building, dealing with adversity, and appreciating success. Unfortunately there are quite a few dad coaches in the league that are like the Karate Kid villain coach and are flipping their shite at ten year olds. It’s a little disturbing. One game last year we were playing a very good team and they had the game in the bag as we started the 4th quarter. One of our players made this amazing long TD run. The kids were going nuts and the parents were so proud. The opposing coach then caused a scene with the 14 year old referee flipping out that another kid was offsides or something to that effect. He caused a scene for a couple minutes, pissed off the parents, and selfishly tarnished that kids moment . The score had no bearing on the outcome of the game. After the game he called the commissioner flipping out about the referee and he needs to be reprimanded. Definitely some emptiness going on in that man’s life.

You will do fine. Make it fun for the kids but challenge them.

i have 13 kids and game is played 7v7

do yall have half the team play only defense and other half strictly on offense?

i just feel like it’s going to be a lot to remember for these kids who never played the game

We combated the QB can’t run thing by snapping the ball to a different player who then handed off to my real QB. I had a bunch of 9 year olds in a league that was 9-12. Because Walker didn’t have enough kids. We also did a lot of misdirection running plays, shuttle passes and the like cause I didn’t have a great passing QB either.

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shuttle passes

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no way you coach football. Nope

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he’s trolling right Burrr?