Anyone have any advice on defending quads? i
In particular WR screens. 14U. We tried a few things but haven’t settled on one particular thing.

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Good afternoon,
I’m working out the kinks of this variation of a play that I’ve run successfully in the past with my 7th grade group. In the previous version of this, the F would cross the formation and end up blocking the DE on the right while that tackle blocks a LB. Here, I have the F with a shorter motion and blocking the closer left DE. Some coaching colleagues warned me that this would be an illegal blindside hit, while others say it’s fine. What are your thoughts? (NFHS rules)
Also, would it be better/become legal (if illegal) if the tackle engages the DE first, then the F hit happens?
Thank you all

Anyone happen to have an old school coaches stencil they’d be willing to part with? Or can point me in a direction of any still available for sell online?

Pictures for reference of what I’m talking about

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This simple Air Raid staple picks apart Cover 2 & Cover 3.

https://5v5flagfootball.com/5v5-air-raid/play-installs/12-all-hitches/

We just found out the team we are scrimmaging in 3 days has scrapped their spread offense and gone to unbalanced single wing.

We are a 4-3 quarters team. This being our first scrimmage against an offense we won’t see I’m not looking for major changes.

Initial thoughts are to bump the front one man to the unbalanced side. As a change up we would just bump our LBs to the unbalanced side and put our backside safety as a b gap player.

Just dropped another Tarleton State offensive breakdown.

This one looks at their Fade RPO a simple way to take advantage of 1v1 on the outside.

Would you run this off your Iso package?

I’ve been wanting to get my lineman pride stickers per pancake they get in the game or get them like a pancake chain or something. Do any one yall give out awards for pancakes?

Rather novice on the tech side. I've heard CapCut & Detail are good for it?

Much appreciated if any advice to recreate something like this?

https://www.instagram.com/chase_daniel/reel/DcoohpbvIdX/?hl=en

Just dropped another Tarleton State offensive breakdown.

This one looks at their H-Back Iso Play-Action Pass — a simple way to use downhill Iso action to get the defense stepping up and create an opportunity through the air.

If you’re an offensive coach looking for simple concepts you can actually carry into your system, check it out.

Underused formational leverage

I’ve been throwing a lot the past few days and still want to lift, but it feels weird to go to the gym and only train my non‑throwing side. When I do lift with my right arm, it feels like I’m overworking it on top of all the throwing volume.

How do you guys keep things balanced and avoid imbalances or overuse?
I’m considering swimming or running laps as an active recovery option for my shoulder.

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Love working screens to the Nub TE

This is something I’ve happened to stumble across recently I can’t find any film or recourses on it other than Micheal Ayers when he was at Wofford use to run it. I was wondering if anyone from this community would know more about it. I know it’s a mix of Wing T and Wishbone principles and was a very prolific offense back in the late 2000’s (I think). Any help or feedback is appreciated. Thank you!

I'm from the UK trying to learn the strategy involved in football defense. I've read lots of great articles online and learnt a lot. However because I have no hands on experience it's hard to visualize how it all comes together on game day.

The articles I've read are all wrote from the perspective of someone knowing what the offense is doing. But the real game isn't like that. In a real game no one knows what the offense is gonna do. Which means the defense has to react and work things out fast. I was wondering how that process works.

Lets say a new coach takes over a team. What is the step by step process of getting the new defense ready for gameday?

A few things I was thinking.

1. I'd imagine there has to be a system to get the defense line up correctly?

2. Once everyone lines up correcty does the coach tell the defense exactly what to do or is the defense reacting to what they see and implementing the coach's playbook themselves?

3. How is the defensive strategy built? Does the coach watch tape and then create a new strategy for every team? Or is there a base strategy taught which will be used all season and then the tapes are jut used for fine tuning?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Need ideas for some good run and pass plays for 7u and 9u teams.

I’m a 2nd year coach just now becoming a position coach (D line) I played for my highschool and now coach for it but man I didn’t feel too great today and my Indy period was kinda slow and not very great and when we were reviewing our stunts our o line coach kinda had to come over and take the reigns because I was just totally going slow and stumbling over my words like I just feel like an idiot and I’m lettin my players down

Welcome to Chalk Talk Thursday! This is our weekly discussion thread for users to submit new plays they have designed. If you have an idea for a play and can draw it up, please post here. Keep in mind that it is very rare that one could devise a viable play that is entirely new that hasn't been ran before somewhere. Be open to criticism as well. There is so much more to coaching football than drawing plays, and many people do not realize how much coaching, technique, and development needs to happen on the actual field for a play to work.

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You may use whatever medium you'd like to draw your play. Two common software for designing plays that have free options:

• GoArmy Edge - Football
• Playmaker X

To help my QB this is what has helped her immensely. I kept the wristband colors the same but changed the X, Y, Z, labels to the QBs actual read progression. 1, 2, 3, 4.

Hi!

I was thinking about something when watching a NFL game.

How often is it a problem that some players forget what they exactly had to do in a specific play or makes mistakes by doing the wrong thing?

In younger age groups, highschool and at high level, do the players use some sort of tools/software to learn the playbook faster or track that the players actually know what they should do in specific plays?

Its my first year of football and I’m a junior but my team doesn’t have a JV so i’m on Varsity BUT i have no clue what Im doing and they haven’t taught much its really implied. Two things.

1. does the play change or the formation? Like say waggle for the waggle play type the routes stay the same but its the formation that does not?

2. Is this correct we have to fill these in and wanna know if i did it right. If it has a black squiggly i think i messed up so its a cross out