r/footballstrategy

Watching the raiders game and the commentaters talked about how in college, everybody runs shotgun and they have to get used to being under center.

What are the negatives of being a majority shotgun team? Were any greats a majority shotgun, Peyton Manning?

My only thoughts would be the RB’s start from farther away. But the QB having eyes on the defenders the whole time seems beneficial.

What formations best suit certain plays in the air raid?For example a lot of coaches I know prefer 4 verts and y corner out of trips.

Edit: I’m not asking what formations to run but rather what plays are best out of certain formations.
My head coach liked 4 verts out of trips because the inside reciever ran to the hash on the opposite side and created a better man beating route for that reciever.

I play interior dline and whenever I put my helmet on I can not see anything but the olines wrist. When im just wearing pads, no helmet, its fine but as soon as I put the helmet on its like I cant see anything.

Ive tried to go from my knees into my stance, and it does not help. i tried asking the coaches, the older players on if they know how to fix this and they just told them that aint got a clue.

Also the reason this is a problem for me is cause I like to be able to see the guy in front of me and know what hes doing instead of tilting my head sideways just to see the ball for myself to move.

Does anybody please have a solution to this? our first game is Friday and i need to desperately get this fixed some how

What do you think about a 7ft tall WR in the nfl. He’d be practically unstoppable in the red zone. Throw it high in the corner of the end zone and it’s either incomplete touchdown or Pass interference. He would alter every defensive scheme. His length would compensate for his probable lack of nfl speed. They’re out there college b ball players who won’t make the NBA. Just a thought.

I’m a 6’4” 245 pound freshmen and I play right tackle on the o-line. I have seen in the blocking drills that I am strong enough to block and push back every person on the team in a controlled environment, but when it comes to a live game, I can barely get a hold, much less push back most guys. I let a smaller guy through today at practice and coach flipped out at me saying I had potential but I was ruining it. I just can’t get ahold of the defense and I don’t know why. Any advice?

I recently agreed to help coach my son's youth football team. I played growing up and coached back in college about 20 years ago, but my drill bank is pretty rusty.

I’m working with our offensive line this season. The kids are super coachable, but they’re having a tough time getting to the second level and tracking linebackers in space. Right now, they either take bad angles or miss the LB completely.

Does anyone have good drills, coaching cues, or progressions you use to teach youth OL how to take proper pursuit angles and seal off linebackers?

Appreciate any advice or drill setups you can share!

I‘m trying to improve my knowledge on the offensive side of the ball. Does anyone know any free videos (or articles) that go deep into pretty much any offensive system/coach from this decade?

Have scheme questions, basic questions about the game, or questions that may not be worthy of their own post? Post them here! Yes, you can submit play designs here.

Basically i was going to do a deep dive into the playcalling and full system of that 2010 oregon team and was surprised with how few resources are out there for one of the most popular teams of the modern era of CFB. Even the most common sited website in fishduck has most of their articles about the team scrubbed from the website and the most there is left out there now is a 2009 camp install with some base concepts and like 3 tv tapings out of a 13 game season. I just see this compared to like 2020 Alabama, where people have found basically every call sheet, play diagram, and report that the team had done for the entire season, and have to wonder if anyone has come across anything for the ducks that I haven’t been able to find.

Or does it the timing feel way different? Just started playing flag with a group of friends and I am just curious if we can use the same concepts as when we played tackle.

Coaching a beginners flag league, the boys are 5-7 years old and most have never played a sport at all before. Looking for drills that teach the fundamentals but also keep the attention of a bunch of young boys that have more energy than the energizer bunny. We have been starting practice with some running just to burn some of the energy before we start but I still need some fun ways to teach catching, throwing, standing on the line, really anything helps.

I coaching a 7th grade team this year, and we only have 16 kids total. Luckily we have a decent mix of sizes within the team, so we have everything we need.

My struggle right now is two-fold:

1 - about 2/3's of my team is effectively first-year players (either they have never actually played before, or were playing with a coach that didn't give them any playing time or attention the last few years)

2 - With the low numbers we are having a tough time getting some real looks in practice. We had a our first scrimmages this last week, and that showed.

So, looking for advice on two main topics. How to get these newer kids more willing to hit and deal with contact. (Not a huge fan of just doing Oklahoma-type drills, but some variations are useful)?

How do we teach our kids proper blocking and playing when we can't give them a full 11-on-11 experience consistently. We have gone half-on-half a few times, and there is some value there, but it's limited.