Flag Football

[SuperBowlNachos]

Any tips? Me and my buddies are doing intramurals this year. Some of us played 11 on 11 in HS, but that was 3.5 years ago lol. What are some of the better basic plays to run for 7 on 7?

[colkilla]

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if you have a good qb and a wr that runs good routes, doesn't even have to be fast, the 10 yard dig is a money route. downfield blocking? linemen eligible? there are so many different styles...

[SuperBowlNachos]

Re: Flag Football

1. Offensive Screen Blocking: Screen blocking is permitted and shall take place without contact. The screen blocker
shall have his/her hands and arms at his/her side or behind his/her back. Any use of the hands, arms, legs, elbows, or
body to initiate contact by an offensive player is illegal. A player must be on his/her feet before, during, and after
screen blocking.

So I guess blocking is allowed, just no hands which is normal.

http://www.tarleton.edu/recsports/documents/Intramurals/Intramurals/Fall2011FlagFootballRules.pdf

[Chrisksaint]

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Idk but having a good QB is key as my team in the summer had my friend at WR who runs a 4.4 and might be playing here for FSU in the future but couldn't get him the ball lol.

[Scott]

Re: Flag Football

Check this site out...http://www.flagfootballstrategies.co...nteractive.taf

[Jr.]

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My advice on plays is to overload one side of the field as much as possible. Most defenses play a zone and it's tough to cover 3 or 4 guys on one side of the field who are running routes at different levels. It can also leave a guy 1 on 1 on the backside of the field for big play possibilities.

Also, we couldn't fumble, so laterals were always a possibility. When a play broke open downfield, we always had 2 or 3 guys cutting behind looking for laterals.

[SuperBowlNachos]

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I didn't realize how bad are team would be. We went out today to just throw the ball and run around. We will literally not score a point. It doesn't help the season starts on Monday lol. We are going to try and come up with gadget plays and be that team that just kills clock. Four 10 minute running clock quarters. Seems kind of long. We watched a team practice and they were doing freaking wind sprints.

[JohnnytheSkin]

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Don't waste a lot of time in huddles...that KILLED our team last year. We tried so hard to do plays and order everyone around, and then we said screw it and just played. A little comment here or there for snap count, a route for a receiver, and then play like you did on the street growing up.

Also, if your linemen are eligible, the quick out after a block will ALWAYS be open for a few yards.

EDIT: On the same not as above, we've also seen the back pass work pretty well. Have the lineman roll right or left behind the line, get the dump, and then if the "D" comes up a bit, heave it deep for an easy score.

[Jr.]

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I didn't realize how bad are team would be. We went out today to just throw the ball and run around. We will literally not score a point. It doesn't help the season starts on Monday lol. We are going to try and come up with gadget plays and be that team that just kills clock. Four 10 minute running clock quarters. Seems kind of long. We watched a team practice and they were doing freaking wind sprints.

That's not long at all. We did two 20 minute halves. Time will fly with a running clock.

One thing I forgot to mention. One mistake we made when we first started playing was expecting the center to be able to block after snapping. Without being able to use your hands, don't expect the center to be able to block anyone. Have him be open for the dumpoff and it's a guaranteed 5 yards.

I wouldn't try too many gadget plays. For one, they usually take a long time to develop, and you won't have much time against the pass rush. We only had one, and it worked about 75% of the time, but we had 2 guys that could throw the ball well and it was a pretty quick hitter. If you're interested I can outline the play.

You can actually be fairly successful with a run-based, wildcat-like offense if you don't have much of a passer.

And I second Johnny, huddles really slow down your pace and kill tempo. We had 6 plays that we ran and had a call-out system so everyone knew the play without having to huddle

[fistofrage]

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If you have a qb with good arm strength, over load the one side of the field with receivers, roll out to that side and throw deep accross the field to a rb or if your league has the center eligible, have the center run a flag pattern to the opposite side. I know its just 1 play, but we would pull this out when we absolutely needed a quick score, and it worked almost always without fail.

Always have a pitch man streaking behind the play in the opposite direction of any pass, the old rugby scissors play. Speed kills and mis direction going full speed is a dagger.

[Chrisksaint]

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Yeah we played 4v4 in summer(sucked, passed on 7v7 in fall) and I was snapping, found out real quick he can't block and rushers. We had to keep everything quick as we did things like stacking WRs in top of each other

[Trevytrev11]

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I posted this in another flag football related thread semi-recently:

We ran a real simple offense based off the phone pad.

123 were deep routes
456 were mid range
789 were short, line of scrimmage type routes

At the basic level, it's just run to the spot that QB tells you...however, to get a little more complicated, the route you run depends on both the spot you are lined up at and the number you are running to.

(Ex...if you are split out wide left, a "4" is a 10 yard stop route. If you are lined up inside the left hash, it's a 10 yard out and if you are lined up on the right side of the ball, it's a slant).

Also, you can put numbers together...a 4 +1 (Forty One, Four to the one, etc.) is a stop/pump and go (Stop at the 4, get a pump and go to the 1).

The system is super easy to learn and if you disguise it just a bit, the defense will likely never catch on...unless you play the same team over and over again.

To call plays, we would pick a simple word and assign letters of that word, left to right across the field...then we'd include a two or three digit number and only one of those numbers are live.

(Ex: 5 Receivers, the word is BENCH and the last number is the live number - B245, H133, E289, etc....Your left WR is running a slant right to the middle, your right WR is running a go route your left flanker is running a quick out right across the field).

If your number wasn't called, you just run the same route.

Also, as the QB, if you make eye contact with a receiver either at the line or between plays, you can just tell him real quick what to run by showing him the right number of fingers.

Stacking WR's works great...send one guy long and keep one guy back and then rotate on the next play...one of them will be wide open. We always had one guy, kind of just move across the line and line up next to or behind othe receivers and just were able to do all sorts of stuff with him...usually made this person the fastest kid with the worst hands...clear out the defense and then give him little short passes and let him run.

[colkilla]

Re: Flag Football

screen blocking makes it difficult to block downfield. that is how most of the indoor leagues i play in operate and it just doesn't translate. i will give you a big tip tho, use athletes to rush the qb. a lot of teams come out with defensive linemen that look like, well, defensive linemen. if you put the fast guys on your rush you can play the fat guys at db because the qb will be running for his life...