Football is great game to play. Unfortunately, only a very small percentage of adults will actually get the privilege of playing football professionally. For all the rest of the players who want to play football, there is flag football. Flag football is usually played with 8 players to a side.
There are many great 8 man flag football plays that an offense can run. Most of these plays are passes but there are also a few running plays that work very well. Let’s take a look at 2 great passing plays that can be used during a game.
Most defenses in 8 man flag football will play man-to-man defense. This means that one defender will match-up with one receiver. When this is the defense of choice, the offense should run lots of crossing routes.
One of the many 8 man flag football plays that use crossing routes involves lining-up 2 receivers on each side of the line. There will also be 3 blockers on the line of scrimmage and a quarterback.
At the snap of the ball, the receivers will each take three steps forward. Then the receivers on the outside of the formation will cut into the middle of the field and run across the field. Both receivers on the inside of the formation will take another step forward and then cut to the outside of the field. The outside receivers need to make sure they cut-in behind the inside receivers.
The crossing routes should help the receivers lose their defenders. If the receivers remain covered then there will be one more chance to get open when the two outside receivers running crossing routes meet in the middle and continue to opposite sides of the field.
Usually the defense – in an effort to stay with the receivers on crossing routes - will adjust their coverage and drop their defensive backs away from the line of scrimmage so that they can’t be picked from their receiver. When this happens there are a few different 8 man flag football plays that can be run.
One great play uses the same formation as the other play. The one difference may be that the offense wants to put a fast player as a blocker at the end of right side of the line of scrimmage.
At the snap of the ball the inside receiver on the right side will come down and block the defender on the end of the line of scrimmage. The outside receiver will take one step forward (a jab step) and then run parallel with the line of scrimmage. The quarterback will throw the ball to that outside receiver as quickly as possible.
Meanwhile, the blocker on the end of the line of scrimmage (the fast player) will run toward the outside receiver in preparation of taking a pitch. The outside receiver will catch the ball and immediately pitch it to the blocker who is running the other way. This will create a misdirection and should gain some good yardage especially if the defense is over-pursuing on plays.
There are many great 8 man flag football plays that an offense can run. Most of these plays involve throwing the ball. Plays with crossing routes and misdirections always work best in 8 man flag football.
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