I’m looking forward to my kids’ flag football seasons.
I had an opportunity to run a full uniformed practice this thursday. The D played well and the offenses were crushing it. Interestingly enough I noticed how the D diagnosed the play after a few reps. This is probably going to happen in the game, which means I gotta throw in a few wrinkles like shotgun and ‘wing’ to keep them guessing. The plays are simple. Stopping them is a bit harder. The beauty of the option is that you don’t know what the QB or the RB is going to do. The QB could just pull it back and throw it. The RB can throw it too, or run it, or hand it off again. All of these plays went down during our game and it wound up looking great.
The 4-5’s gave me a burst of happiness today when I saw a kid I was unsure of suddenly emerge as a top flight runner. Kid has the moves and speed we’ll need to score. With only 9 players on the roster and 8 actually showing up, I can get the ball in the hands of one of our three solid runners every possession. Add in the handful of reasonable QBs the team has and we are looking at an offensive explosion.
Defense doesn’t look as good at the 4-5 level, but with the blitz figured out, we are going to be able to contain the other teams at the 8-9 level. This is going to be fun. Even in the 45 degree cold of the weekend, I am looking forward to a good time watching them play.