Flag Football Plays/Strategies

**theaub** · 10-17-2006, 10:36 PM

Re: Flag Football Plays/Strategies

Originally posted by camulos

We had a real athletic team so ran a lot of no huddle. Whoever caught the pass snapped the ball and we'd basically just sprint down the field and wear the other teams out.

We were the exact opposite...we worked the clock and ran the ball a lot. We played for an hour and we'd have the ball for 35-45 minutes every game.

**Dallasin2K3** · 10-18-2006, 12:04 AM

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Get good players. lol.

Our team has 3 former D1A athletes on it (two used to play football, one cornerback and one WR, plus a guy that ran the 100M). The game itself is pretty simple.. run short passes, take a couple shots to a tall guy with a good vert who knows how to go GET a football when it's in the air, run a lot, play good zone defense, swarm the flag defensively..

Last game, though, on a punt return, we had one guy take the return initially up the right sideline, then lateral (read, throw, it was probably a 10 yard pass) back to the middle of the field to our QB, who then threw it to the left sideline (lateral again) to our 100M guy. Obviously no one caught him. It was muddy, so that helped, as the defense had ZERO chance of changing direction in time.

I guess my biggest advice would be to practice. Sounds gay, but you won't be good if you don't. It's still a team sport.

**BatsareBugs** · 10-18-2006, 12:34 AM

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I'm one hell of a returner. I was the Dante Hall in my high school days.

**dieselboy** · 10-18-2006, 01:13 AM

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We had our first practice tonight, but didn't have time to go over defense too much.

We have nine offensive plays down. Game is tomorrow night, so we are practicing again tomorrow.

**TheMatrix31** · 10-18-2006, 03:58 AM

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I wish I had somewhere to play flag football....

**Spear** · 10-18-2006, 07:19 PM

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Originally posted by Rainey

One of my favorite plays to run is the good ole hook and ladder

Works in real football too, we've been doing it on our High School team for 4 years, works like a charm.

**dieselboy** · 10-18-2006, 07:30 PM

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Originally posted by Spear

Works in real football too, we've been doing it on our High School team for 4 years, works like a charm.

We have a version of it on our team. We are planning on using it in tonights game.

**theaub** · 10-18-2006, 07:39 PM

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Originally posted by Rag3vsW0rld

I'm one hell of a returner. I was the Dante Hall in my high school days.

Our school league didn't have any punters...you would just tell the other team you were punting, and throw the ball as far as you could downfield, and the players on the punting team couldn't go past the LOS until the ball was "punted." Our QB could throw the ball 55 yards downfield, so we had an advantage over every team, especially those with QB's who didn't have great arms.

That was how we did our kickoffs too...it was better than kicking a wormburner though.

Oh, and I was trying to figure out who I could compare myself too...I was the slow Wayne Chrebet. I even have the concussions.

**Beantown** · 10-18-2006, 08:08 PM

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We ran a triple reverse on an extra point in our dominating win tonight...

it was the only XP we converted all day.

**Rainey** · 10-18-2006, 09:13 PM

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Originally posted by Spear

Works in real football too, we've been doing it on our High School team for 4 years, works like a charm.

Yes, I think most high schools will bust it out when they think the defense is being too aggressive and need a big score.

I saw it in a MS 5-A State Championship game on TV and it was executed perfectly for a TD.

**MachoMyers** · 10-18-2006, 11:11 PM

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A good/simple play to avoid pressure is to receive the shotgun snap and start a quick roll to the right (assuming the QB is right handed) have all the wideouts run 10 yard outs (or ins if they are on the left side). This is good for teams that rush like mad and/or don't have anyone that can cover.

**BatsareBugs** · 10-18-2006, 11:14 PM

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Originally posted by theaub

Our school league didn't have any punters...you would just tell the other team you were punting, and throw the ball as far as you could downfield, and the players on the punting team couldn't go past the LOS until the ball was "punted." Our QB could throw the ball 55 yards downfield, so we had an advantage over every team, especially those with QB's who didn't have great arms.

That was how we did our kickoffs too...it was better than kicking a wormburner though.

Oh, and I was trying to figure out who I could compare myself too...I was the slow Wayne Chrebet. I even have the concussions.

Yeah, it was only for kickoffs.

I was a damn good player in my last year in P.E. as a sophomore. Running the ball, catching ball. The only problem was I couldn't throw past 10 yards.

**dieselboy** · 10-19-2006, 11:26 AM

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Well we had our first game last night, against team "Football-X". At first we didn't really understand what that meant, but we shortly found out, they were all former WSU football players. *Gulp*

We started out on offense, first play, sack. We went three and out, we were going to punt and our QB said, "no guys, we can make it!", and he ended up scrambling for his life and then throwing a pass five yards past the line of scrimmage. They got the ball and scored in two plays, but failed the conversion.

Our offensive series went just as bad, until third down our QB threw a 30 yard pass to our C/TE who caught it between two defenders, and ran another 15 yards for the score, we were back in it. We go nuts! The other team is blowing up at eachother but the ref has a flag down in the back field for too physical of blocking. Now I normally try not to blame the refs for stuff, but this call was BS. We didn't use hands or anything, and we are going against former linebackers. Anyways, the call makes its 3rd and long, we don't make it, and punt. They scored in about five plays, and made the conversion, 14-0.

I think our next drive we got two first downs and then threw a pick. Time ran out in the redzone of their next drive, and that was the first half.

They started with the ball the second half and we picked it off. We then drove the field and I scored on a five yard curl that I made a guy miss going into the endzone. We failed the conversion, 13-6. We played good defense the rest of the way, including another pick, two sacks (one by me), and had the ball in our possesion with like 50 seconds left and no timeouts. But our QB threw a pick they returned for a TD to end the game, 20-6.

We have to go win two of our next three games to advance now, which we are capable of. I finished the game with a sack, two catches for first downs, and a td.

**MachoMyers** · 10-19-2006, 12:24 PM

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Do you know who the ex players were?

**dieselboy** · 10-19-2006, 01:02 PM

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My roomate does, (he was a former walk on at TE, played one season as a redshirt and then quit).

I know one of them was a QB at New Mexico for his freshman year, transfered here, and then like was burried on the depth chart or something like that. One is a former LB, one a DB, one a TE, and I forget. I think most of them were walk-ons that made the team or recruited walk-ons.

They weren't anything amazing, just a lot faster than us, so they had pressure on us all day, but we played a lot of zone on defense.

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