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  1. My son broke his finger trying to catch the ball when he was about 8 or 9. He also broke his patella coming down from a jump ball on turf when he was about 11. We had another kid on our team slam his knee into someone elses and had to stop football for a while to let it heal (wasn't broken just really badly bruised). Sounds like you just had a very unfortunate event happen. I've coached 16+ seasons of football and I can only remember a handful of instances where there were serious injuries.
  2. Hi everyone, Been away for a while, but I'm coaching again. This time I'm coaching a 7th grade girls team for a one day Powder puff tournament. I need some advice about getting plays in from the sidelines. I was thinking about having 12 plays on a wrist coach and just having my QB's wear the wristcoach. I would send in the plays with a player for each play, and the QB would call it out in the huddle and players could look at her wrist coach to know their assignments. I don't want to buy wrist coaches for all of the girls if I don't have to. Any suggestions or other ideas?
  3. I like the trips formations alot. In our league alot of teams run a 2-1-2 defense, so I like to run trips to either side and overload the middle guy. This is very effective, especially if they rush or put the guy up close to the line. I like to run plays that set up each other. I'll run 2 sweep plays in a row or something, and then fake the sweep and throw it deep the 3rd time. I don't look for weaknesses as much as I should. I try to let the kids find the weaknesses if they can, but in close games I definitely help them out more by pointing stuff out to them.
  4. I'm not usually one for long pregame speeches either, but I thought I'd give it a try. The kids seemed to respond, but we still started slow on offense, so it didn't have the full effect I was hoping for...
  5. Hayes, Your league rules are unlike I've heard of before, but if you want to run zone, I would employ the 2-3 as Teedub suggested and the 1-1-3 that Rob suggested. At this age level most teams will be able to throw deep without a problem, so I'd play the 1-1-3 against the pass happy teams, and the 2-3 against teams that tend to run it more. I would make signals for the defense from the sideline for each defense, and call each one based on what you see in the offense. Anytime the offense put a RB in the backfield I would switch to the 2-3. It will also be a better defense against fast sweep plays. If you have great speed and talent though, I would experiment with M2M also though.
  6. BTW, on that website I just looked at the free stuff...Not recommending anyone buy anything.
  7. Hey everybody, We're playing winter flag football again this year, and are 3-0 so far. We've played some good teams, and it seems to have become our teams habit to come out and play cold for the first few possessions (offense and defense), before picking it up and blowing out the opponents in the second half. I've started to rethink my pregame warmup to try and get the kids fired up and ready to play as soon as the game starts today. I was looking online for some pre game speeches to motivate the kids and get them fired up, and stumbled upon a site I thought I'd share: http://pregamespeeches.com/speeches.aspx I'm not typically one for long winded speeches, but today I'm going to take some bits and pieces from the stuff I've found and patch together a bit more of a story for the kids to think about before going out on the field. We'll see how it turns out...
  8. That's a pretty broad subject there Hayes. To start with, take a look at the flag football defense forum here: http://www.y-coach.com/forums/index.php?showforum=30 There is lots of good info there.
  9. I think you're looking for a technical "loophole" to make your argument instead of looking at it from an objective point of view. I don't think anyone who is being realistic would consider a lineman a normal "ball carrying posiition". I think that most would agree that the intent of the rule is to keep smaller kids from getting bulldozed by larger kids playing the skill positions (i.e. running back, reciever, QB). The rules above clearly state that green stripes can play any interior O-line or D-line position, so everything but Tackle or End. So that clearly spells out where they can and can not play. If you come across green stripes playing Tackle I would say you have a clear rule violation and should bring it to the refs attention. It looks like red stripes can play any O-line or D-line position. I understand why you would like the league to allow everyone opportunities to get the ball, I definitely get that. Unfortunately in your league, it looks like your big guys are gonna have to move up to the next weight class if they want to do get ball touches.
  10. Hey there K, I think it comes down to what the league defines as a "ball carrying position". My initial interpretation would be that any back or potential receiver (including TE) would be a ball carrying position. Since there is not a clear definition for "ball carrying position" in the rules you quoted above, here is my logic for coming to this conclusion: I would consider any yardage gained whether by running or catching, an advancement of the ball, and since only a receiver, running back or quarterback can advance the ball, I would say their meaning by ballcarrying position is anyone who would normally touch the ball during the game. The point you made about the MLB intercepting does not apply, because he did not "advance the ball". He intercepted it on defense and took a knee, which is legal. Also be aware that just because the officials don't call things in previous games doesn't mean they were legal. Officals often miss things or fail to call out every rule violation. I'm not saying I agree with these rules, but this is the best interpretation I can make of the situation.
  11. I'm new to the basketball forum, but have been coaching my son in flag football for many years and he now plays basketball at his middle school as well, so this article caught my eye. I've never seen a team foul like this, and it seems pretty unbelievable that the guy fouling like this was not ejected from the game:
  12. Thanks Rob. No you can't rush from anywhere, but you can blitz. You can only have 3 defenders rushing the QB at a time, and they must be within 5 yards on either side of the ball, but you can drop a lineman back into coverage and blitz a linebacker, and run other stunts like that.
  13. My son has played NFL flag football for over 10 seasons now. Now that he is getting older (5th/6th grade level), we wanted to find a new challenge that was more physical than regular flag football, but with less risk of injury than regular pop warner tackle football. Luckily for us, we found the perfect league being started here in the central texas area that combines the perfect elements of both leagues into one. It is called "Extreme Flag Football", and allows the kids to wear helmets and shoulder pads. The kids can wrap up the ball carrier or pull their flags, but cannot tackle or take the ball carrier to the ground. It is an 8 on 8 league that does allow hands on blocking. We have played 3 seasons in this league now and really enjoy the concept. We just completed our fall season in this league and went 10-0 and won the championship. If you are interested, please check out their website at the link below: http://www.extremefl...ll.com/home.php I've included below a link to the highlights from our fall season. We are the Black team, The Dragons Enjoy!
  14. Whiskey, your vids are absolutely amazing. Not sure what your day job is but I'd bet you could have a second in the cinematography/editing world if you so choose. Your team looks great too. Their fakes and execution are killer!! We are playing in the Cedar Park 5th/6th grade winter league again this year. Looks like you play South Austin, but it'd be fun to catch one of your games if you guys ever play North...
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