I have 10 players make two lines of 5 facing each other spread apart like about 5 yards. And in each line the players are spread out maybe a 2 or 3 yards apart. The idea is for them to kind of form a tunnel or a lane, then I get two other players, one on one end of the tunnel, and the other on the other end. They are both facing one direction.

Next have the football coach lineup about 10 yard or so, in front of the player at the front of the tunnel, and then throw a football to him. His objective is to turn upfield, and try to get through the tunnel without the player at the end of the tunnel tackling him.  If the runner gets tackled then he does 5 to 10 up-downs, if the runners make it through without being tackled, the defender does 5 to 10 up-downs.

The football players who make up the tunnel have the following job: if the runner gets close to them they push him towards the middle forcing him to face the defender one on one.

This works really well, it makes the receiver react quickly to the defender, after catching the football.

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Have the center, guard, tackle, tight end, and split end all on the power side seal blocking.  Guard on weak side is pulling and the tackle on the weak side is to take out the outside linebacker or end on the weak side, whoever is coming backside to disrupt the football play.

All three backs sweep around the end creating a wall for the quarterback.
Now, the actual football drill is as follows:

Set up the three running backs in their positions, with three guys on defense in front of them 7-10 yards off.
Whistle starts play.
Set up two cones that the backs have to stay between to make sure they keep proper position.
QB takes off around end.
The backs are responsible for blocking the three defenders.
After we get the three defenders down, I throw in a fourth to see how they handle the open man to make sure they keep position, and keep defense away from QB by maintaining position and creating the wall.

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• The QB, first sends the SB in motion.
• Once the ball is snapped he then fakes the football to the FB up the 4 hole.
• The FB runs a quick out into the flats.
• QB then takes a five step drop, and throws the ball to the X receiver running a 10 yard hook route.
• Once the X receiver catches the ball he then pitches the ball to the SB who is running a delayed Go route.
• If the pitch is not there, the X receiver keeps the ball and turns up field.

Use this football drill during your practices and you will see significant improvements quickly.

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Shutdown is basically designed to go on 2nd go. Our QB starts his cadence with “set”, “down”, “ready go”.

Our linemen slap their pads on set. When the QB says “down” they stay in the set position.

When the QB says “go” our linemen quickly go down to their normal stance. 90 % of the time we draw the defense off sides.

If the defense does not jump off sides we just run the original football play on the 2nd go.

We get at least 2 first downs a game doing this. The kids love it and they really focus on doing this correct.

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If your football field is marked, head over about 10 yards out from one of the sidelines (if your practice field isn’t lined, you can space out some cones 5 yards apart to simulate a sideline).

Take 3 kids with hand shields and put them 5 yards away from the sideline and 5 yards apart from each other.

Take your running back and either:
A.) hand the football off or
B.) run a little toss to him, so the direction he is heading in is the area between the sideline and your players with hand shields.

As he runs through these two obstacles, the players with hand shields give him a real good shot trying to knock your running back out of bounds.

Your RB should be DELIVERING the blow to the defender, not absorbing it during this football drill. All the meanwhile, he is trying to keep his feet moving on contact and staying in bounds.

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With younger kids just learning the flag football game, we line up our huddle to mimic our basic football offensive set (7 man flag).  So from left to right it’s RECEIVER, RECEIVER, RECEIVER, CENTER and SLOT.

The QB stands next to me and the RB stands on the end. We have them face the football which is the direction we are going. With the football coaches on the field in this league I call the play from the huddle. So I have them look past me at the line and they can visualize their location on the line of scrimmage. Even a different set is no problem. If their head was down in a tight circular huddle they have to come out of the huddle, get oriented, and then figure out where they’re headed.

Our first game was yesterday, we had no off sides, no delay of games and each play they were in the right place.

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This football play is a play that works very well in 8 & under football.  We name it Power Right Fake Dive Right, iso left T block left.

It is used with two fullbacks who are set 1 yard up behind each guard. The tailback should be a 1 yard 1/2 behind the right fullback.

The quarterback must fake the dive to the right fullback, then turn around and hand the football off to the tail back who runs an iso behind the left fullback through the five hole.  The tackle and the end on the left side do a T block on the end and tackle on the left side; end blocks down on the DT and the tackle blocks the DE out.

This is a great formation and play.  You can run the dive to either fullback or the power iso on either side, simply change the formation from power left to power right and the tail back will change sides.

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From Dianne…
Since its flag football, our league is made up for 5 players. The defense must rush from ten yards back after the snap. I line up a wide receiver far right, the other four guys are tightly together with a running back that stands next to the quarterback.

After the ball is snapped the four guys stand without moving but the wr takes off. The four guys yell out his name like it a muffed play. The wr pauses in mid field then runs off again.

Let me tell you, the defense was completely frozen, no one moved, even the defender that was covering the wr stopped dead in his tracks since the rest of his team wasn’t moving. Peer pressure I guess!

The next play do the same play, exactly, draw as much attention to wr verbally, the qb hands off to the rb running in opposite direction of wr. The rb has an open field as we have all the defense looking at our wr on the other side of the football field.

This football play was so effective, the ref blew the whistle thinking that the play was dead. After speaking with the ref on the sidelines, we ran it again for a touch down. We ran it many times the same game for long yards.

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From Pat…
We have been working on a way that we might communicate our offensive calls without confusing signals and without too much verbage.

My OC and I have been hashing this out for a few months. We have run through the gambit of color number and states and found things were too complicated or insufficient. We have landed on a pretty good system that is not too hard to remember and works for everything we do.

We will call 2 sets of 2 digit numbers.  The first set of numbers will tell everybody the blocking scheme and the snap count. The second set of numbers will define the series, gives our FB his alignment, the backs and receivers any motion and the play out of that series.

That gives us 10 different football blocking schemes and 100 different football plays–giving us the potential for 1000 different calls.

For Example:
31, 52 = zone read
3 = tells the line to block zone left
1 = snap count
5 = zone read
2 = FB aligns right, QB reads right edge,
left half has 3 step motion

We were not trying to re-invent the wheel; we were looking for an easy way to communicate on the football field.

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From Bill…
My problem–our junior varsity was having a lot of trouble understanding the football plays i.e.: blocking assignments and timing, pass routes etc.

My solution–I lined up the varsity offense on the left side of the goal line and had them run thru the entire playbook all the way down the to the other side of the field and back up the other side to where they started using 10 yards for each play.  Ten yards behind them have the junior varsity watching their position seeing everything– the way its supposed to be run and then have them run the same play. They hear which play is called, see the play run, and then run it.  This took care of my problem fast.

I put defense in front of them holding pads in different defensive sets ie,: 3-4 -4-4 etc.  They learned the different blocking assignments for those too.

We do this now at the beginning of the year to teach our playbook to the new kids and anytime we put in a new play or are doing offense football drills our junior varsity is not standing on the side goofing off not paying attention; they are out on the field learning what to do right behind the varsity.

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