If you are in charge of coming up with the best flag football plays for your team, the first thing you need to consider is the talent level of the players on your team. If many of them are couch potatoes and aren’t really big sports fans, then you will need to keep the plays very, very simple.
If your team is made up of former high school or college football players who have an intimate knowledge of the game, then you can go ahead and make your playbook much more complicated. Here are a few basic flag football plays you can use for your playbook.
This is a good play to use if your players are less experienced and you need to make sure your instructions are simple to understand. Have 2 wide receivers line up on each side of your formation. When the ball is snapped, have the two wide outs on each end run 10 yard straight forward and then have them turn and run back two yards. Have the other two inside wide outs run 8 yards and then turn around and come back two yards.
This gives your quarterback four excellent targets to hit and many options to choose from in case one, two or even three of the targets are well covered. The running back can come up and block to help give your quarterback a little more time to throw. It is doubtful that you will score a touchdown on such a play, but it is an excellent play to run on a short yardage situation and on first down to take some pressure off the quarterback for the rest of that set of downs.
If your players are a bit more advanced, you can have them run flag football plays with things like motion, and you can even run an option play. With an option play, you stack the offensive line in one direction, usually the side of the field where you have the most room if you have the ball set on one hash mark or the other. Have your tight end on the side of the offensive line where you are planning to run the ball to help with blocking.
When the ball is snapped, have the quarterback run in the direction of where the extra tight end is lined up on your offensive line. Have the running back run in the same direction. If your quarterback can find a hole in the line and bust through for a good gain, have your quarterback keep the ball. If it looks like he is running out of real estate or about to get tackled, have him toss the ball sideways, or a little backwards, to your running back and let him find a hole in the offensive line.
The option is dangerous because it can often lead to a fumble and a turnover. You’ll need to practice it quite a bit to get it down, but once you do, you can base your entire offensive around it.
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