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Coaching my sons 8u flag football team
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Coaching my sons 8u flag football team

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Feb 19, 2024, 9:37 PM
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Been looking up drills and plays. Kind of puts it all in perspective how hard coaches have it. Pretty nervous.

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Feb 19, 2024, 10:38 PM
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My son also coaches his sons. He gives them an armband with set plays and colors for each player for those plays. He calls the play, they look and execute. Works good. Good defense is a must. Good luck

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Re: Coaching my sons 8u flag football team

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Feb 20, 2024, 4:45 PM
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Thanks for the advice. The majority of the kids can barely catch. I’m thinking focus on skills and drill first then slowly implement some plays.

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Don't be nervous. The kids and parents are more

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Feb 19, 2024, 10:45 PM
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concerned with teaching them the game and doing so with competitive fun. If they don't, they do not deserve your concern.

Keep it basic, fun, competitive and no super star hero bullshat with this or that kid. At that age, none of that matters.

Have fun. It's a good time and rewarding. Don't let the refs or teams you come across that are in support of the opposite of everything I just said steal your joy.

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Re: Don't be nervous. The kids and parents are more

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Feb 20, 2024, 10:12 AM
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Beamer would get portal players.

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Re: Don't be nervous. The kids and parents are more

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Feb 20, 2024, 11:19 AM [ in reply to Don't be nervous. The kids and parents are more ]
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Did I hurt your feelings castaway®

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Re: Don't be nervous. The kids and parents are more

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Feb 20, 2024, 4:56 PM [ in reply to Don't be nervous. The kids and parents are more ]
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Thanks, I agree. My goal is to teach them to play football and just get better. Plus have fun.

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Re: Coaching my sons 8u flag football team

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Feb 19, 2024, 11:05 PM
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The good news is that coaching little kids flag football makes you more qualified to comment here than 98% of the posters on Tnet!

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Only 98%???***

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Feb 19, 2024, 11:07 PM
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I believe the correct number is 95%

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Feb 20, 2024, 2:50 AM
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https://www.tigernet.com/clemson-forum/message/re-more-depresssing-brownell-stats-because-there-are-no-other-30599072

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Re: I believe the correct number is 95%

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Feb 20, 2024, 4:56 AM
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It’s nice of you to reaffirm your lack of character for everyone else to see. Glad to see you continue to mock volunteerism.

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No no no...It's not volunteerism that I'm mocking...It's you and your ridiculous


Feb 20, 2024, 2:46 PM
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statement

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Re: No no no...It's not volunteerism that I'm mocking...It's you and your ridiculous

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Feb 20, 2024, 4:25 PM
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It’s implicit in your attack and bringing it up here in this context. The op is talking about his volunteer football coaching and here you are with the your snark. Then, just as now, you’re jumping in to someone elses thread out of context and being an #######. My comment was directly responding to someone who acted as though only those with equivalent coaching experience could comment on a coaches performance. That’s preposterous and you know it. My response was highlighting the absurdity of the position, not aggrandizing mine. But you read what you want to read and lash out in a predetermined manner. This board is littered with your tempered tantrums.

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Re: Coaching my sons 8u flag football team

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Feb 20, 2024, 6:30 AM
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I have been coaching my son's teams since they were 4. The trick for me is lots of praise and encouragement. Just remember the most important part of leagues that age is participation. I always make sure every kid gets to get hands on the ball. I suggest create 6 plays 3 running plays and three passing plays and call them A. B. and C. Don't try and coach offense and defense. Have your assistant coach one or the other. DO NOT WASTE MUCH TIME ON DRILLS. Drills are great for developing skills and abilities but practices are short. The kids want to play football, jump right in and start playing. If you want to do drills devote about 10-15 mins in the beginning otherwise just jump in and teach your plays and play the game. With defense I found that teaching zone D worked better than man. Kids would get confused when their guy would run a crossing route.

Finally you will see that of the 10 kids you get you will have some really good players. These are the players that will understand the game and drills and you can give them more complex instructions. Just don't fall into he trap of putting them in position to make every play.

Have fun. Good luck!

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Re: Coaching my sons 8u flag football team

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Feb 20, 2024, 5:00 PM
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Yep, i was thinking the same thing 3 pass plays and 3 run plays. Just want the kids to have fun and learn. Definitely want everyone some touches . Thanks for the advice.

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My 8 year old did FF last year

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Feb 20, 2024, 6:35 AM
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His team was undefeated and they ran sort of a wake Forrest slow mesh offense but it was all run plays , not knowing who would take off. The only drills you need are flag pulling drills in close spaces. That said, he hated flag football and it’s extremely boring to play (and watch). As another poster mentioned, make sure you get every player on the team touches every game and practice. Then after this season stuck to tackle, kids love it more.

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Feb 20, 2024, 7:26 AM
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Oh yeah good advice on the flag grabbing drills. We ended each practice with a five minute game of last man standing. Get them inside two yard markers and tell them outside of that ten yard area is out of bounds. Then blow the whistle and watch the chaos. Last kid who doesn't get his flag pulled wins. The kids love it.

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Re: My 8 year old did FF last year

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Feb 20, 2024, 7:51 AM
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Yep, that drill was probably more fun for them than the games. They also did a tunnel drill probably 4 yards wide (can go outside it) and had one ball carrier and another defender, run at each other and see if you can pull the flag or get past the defender… really loved your point about getting every kid touches, every practice and every game. So true, in flag it is easy to get lost doing nothing if you are a blocker all the time and the kids that aren’t involved feel left out and risk not ever wanting to do real football because they think it’s going to be just as boring.

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Feb 20, 2024, 5:02 PM [ in reply to My 8 year old did FF last year ]
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Flag drills are my main priority. During evaluations I realized they all need to work on that. I agree, it is boring. I told my son, who is dying to play tackle, show me you can make it through this and we will do tackle next year.

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What I found was that passing arms aren't

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Feb 20, 2024, 6:43 AM
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great at that age so the d crowds the box. But they aren't real disciplined. Some misdirection or a trick play can take advantage of that.

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You should give fm a call. He coaches his jv team and probably has some

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Feb 20, 2024, 9:38 AM
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great tips.

Francis Marion®

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Some tips....

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Feb 20, 2024, 1:04 PM
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Tell the kids and parents up front, "look, every kid wants the ball thrown to them" if we go 3 and out and that limits the number of times you are on offense. So if one kid emerges that consistently catches the ball and gets first downs, then that creates more opportunities for everyone (best to tell that before the season starts).

Good drills:

Line up the kids in 2 rows. Throw a high lob at them and have them compete for the ball in the air. this helps them to increase their catch radius and teaches them to catch the ball with their hands instead of waiting to trap against their chest. Waiting to trap against their chest increases the odds of an interception as well. mix and match ability levels.

Line them up and throw intentionally bad passes to them. This is what they will get in the game anyway. Be sure and tell them and armchair coach dads this is what you are doing other wise they will assume you cant throw.

Use wrist coaches with the Velcro peal up that gives you 3 pages. I used to draw the actual plays out and reduce them down to fit on the wrist coach. you can color code the different receivers so kids will know where to line up and what route to run. This will help you run a really fast offense. This will also allow you a simple way to call plays different things to keep the other team from figuring our your plays. For example: Person Place or Thing. "Person" is first page, "Place" is 2nd page thing is 3rd page. So Jimmy 3 is page one 3rd play. But you can call the same exact play and say Matt 3. Place can be Georgia 2 for example and you can say Mississipi 2 and run the same exact play. Thing example is Football 1 or Cone 1.

Depending on age group you can do other fun things with your signal call such as Food, Drink and Desert. Think "Corndog 4" and "Hotdog 4" is same play. The advantage to that is when you are dealing with a bunch of little kids your kids will get the laughs out at practice and can not be phased in the game when you call "Corndog 4" But the other team will relax and start laughing saying "Cooornnnnn Dawwwwg?!!!!!" and you snap the ball and run right by them.

T-mail me if you want more explanations or suggestions.

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