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Post by estore2 on Sept 2, 2007 18:14:42 GMT -6
I SEEN A THREAD THAT READ 2007 FOOTBALL STORIES BUT IT SEEMED TO BE GEARED TO HIGH SCHOOL KIDS SO I THOUGHT I WOULD START ONE UNDER THE YOUTH SECTION SINCE I COACH
7-9YR OLDS 65LB AND I WILL START IT LIKE THIS WE'VE HAD TWO SCRIMAGES AND BOTH WE LOOKED REAL GOOD ONE EVERYONE OF MY BACKS SCORED A TOUCHDOWN IM RUNNING WING-T I'M USING TED SEAYS WING-T FOR YOUTH PLAYBOOK REAL GOOD STUFF AND THE 6-3 DEFENSE WE HAVE TWO WEEKS BEFORE OUR SEASON STARTS SO I'M TRYING TO GET A COUPLE MORE SCRIMAGES UNDER MY BELT LIKE TO SAY GOOD LUCK TO EVERYONE CANT WAIT TO HERE YOUR STORIES
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Post by coachjim on Sept 4, 2007 3:47:23 GMT -6
Here's ours then: Went five weeks with only nine kids. Srimmaged w/ nine last week using only Ted's base 20 series and scored thee times with at least 400 rushing yards. Didn't show them any counters really, because we play them week six. (I didn't set up the scrimmage or it wouldn't have been a league team.)
Last week, the next day, seven new kids, mostly 10 year olds, no experience but all studs!
Its tough to get them all in sync, one week before game day, but the ease of the system to teach and my philosophy of getting rid of anything that takes time away frm plays might turn out to be even wiser than I thought it would be. I just have to remember my kids that have been there all preseason know what they are doing and not to get too excited over the brand new talent.
Previous team went 1-9. I was DC. HC ran the I, I was into 6-2 at the time.
Now, i'm HC. Run Wing-T, Spread, and some other tricks up my sleeve. Going w/ 4-4 stack D (mostly due to great Tackles). I have a new 10 year old that can pass forty yards. Can't believe I might have a true quadruple threat Wing-T offense.
I'm setting our goals high but just relieved to have a team. The offense is so fun, sound, and pretty to watch, I'm having a hard time believing its not a dream. Good luck this year coach, enjoy the memories that will last a lifetime.
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Post by tiger46 on Sept 6, 2007 13:21:50 GMT -6
6565.1
I coach a junior (9>10yr old) team. Yesterday, we ran plays against our senior (11>12yr old) team in an impromptu session near the end of practice. Of course, the senior team is a lot bigger and faster than our juniors. They’re big and fast for 11 & 12yr olds, period. The Sr’s did not wear helmets or shoulderpads. Our Jr’s removed their helmets. We went full speed with the Sr’s wrapping or two-hand touching the Jr.’s. I did what I could to simulate a no-huddle offense. Due to playing against such large, powerful boys and having no full tackling, I can only offer probabilities as far as the results of the plays had we scrimmaged a 9>10yr old team.
We run Coach Cisar’s UBSW. We have six of seven plays installed. 16 Power, 18 Sweep, 18 Sweep Pass, 22 Wedge, 32 Wedge, 43 Reverse. We won’t have 31 Trap installed until today’s practice.
Here’s the play sequence, results and probabilities as best as I can approximate.
1. 16 Power- Result: -5yrds. The Center shot a rocket over the TB’s right shoulder. All I could do was sigh, thinking of the amount of time spent in pre-practice snaps with the Center.
2. 16P- Result: +20yrds. Probable touchdown against 9>10yr olds. It took the Sr’s fastest player to catch my TB 20+ yrds downfield.
3. 18S- Result: +10yrds. TB needed to turn it up sooner.
4. 18S Pass- Result: 0yrds. TB overthrew the WB. Also, want to note that I use Coach Ted Seay’s pass pattern for my 16P Pass. I think it’s the “stick” pattern he outlined earlier in the year at the SW Conclave. RE runs up 10yrds, 5yrds right, plants and faces TB. WB shoots off at a 45 Degree angle and doesn’t stop. BB runs a 5yrd out and keeps moving toward sideline. If Coach Seay reads this, hopefully, he’ll correct where needed.
5. 43 Reverse- Result: Touchdown! No one came near my WB. In fact, my lead blockers had no one to block.
6. Swapped in the ‘great hands’ WB. Ran 18S Pass- Result: Touchdown….. I think. At 30+yrds, even the fastest Sr’s had not yet caught up to my WB although they were gaining. I blew the whistle.
7. 32 Wedge- Result: Touchdown. No one touched him. No one even knew he had the ball. Some of the Sr’s didn’t even know why I blew the whistle.
8. 22 Wedge- Stuffed at line due to my O-lineman blurting out the play at the LOS. I shouldn’t have ran two wedges in a row, anyway. My first year with the SW. I’m going to make mistakes.
9. 32 Wedge modifified to look like 18S Pass. Result: +20yrds. Probability to have gotten more had the BB angled towards the sideline once he cleared the LB’s.
10. 16P Result: +5yrds. BB missed block on the DE. Sr DE is very fast. He turned and caught my TB right before he would’ve sprung for big yards.
11. For kicks I let my kids try 31 Trap, bearing in mind that the kids have never even heard of 31 Trap; let alone tried to execute it. I just huddled ‘em up and did some fast talking. Also, 31 Trap was modified to look like 18S Pass. Result: -1yrd. LE and LG made the correct blocks. RG made the trap block on the DT. Big hole. BB tried to bounce it outside. Big Sr. DT swallowed him up. It was like watching someone refuse to drive down a 6-lane highway and instead opting to drive into a brick wall. LOL! Can’t wait to actually practice that play today.
12. 18S- Result: +10. A Sr. LB was a bit frustrated at the success my Jr’s were having running that ‘stupid looking offense’. He pretty much, leveled my WB on the play. It was the end of practice. The LB got into a lot of trouble with the Sr. HC. My WB is tough and was alright. We didn’t want it to end on a sour note between anyone. So, we had the teams do the end of the practice cheer together. Also, the Jr.’s clapped and cheered the Sr’s for coming over and giving them something to look at. Sr’s chests puffed out. They had pride in helping their ‘Little Tigers’. It all ended in a positive manner.
One common complaint from the Sr.’s., “They’re too little. We couldn’t see who had the ball!”. LOL!- not, “They’re too little. We had to take it too easy on them!” The Sr. DL’s didn’t go all out on my Jr.’s. But, they weren’t being pushovers, either. The LB’s and DB’s were moving at top speed. But, with that one exception, they didn’t hit my backs. They wrapped them or two-hand touched them. They did give my lead blocks some decent chucks to the shoulderpads to keep my blockers from being lazy with their assignments. One of the Sr. defenders had his head in the clouds during an 18S. My RG was coming around with a bit of enthusiasm and planted a shoulderpad into him pretty solidly, considering the size differences of the kids- but, no hard feelings. In fact, the Sr. congratulated the Jr. for ‘popping him a good one’.
Saw lots of things to work on; the snap being the first thing. After all the work put in, a bad snap is not what an HC/OC wants to see on the first play. I’ve been slacking a bit on the pre- practice snaps. So, it was my fault.
I also need to have my asst. coach fine tune the RB’s paths when they break free. I didn’t criticize my BB. But, on his 32 Wedge TD run, he popped out the side of the wedge instead of staying in it the way he was supposed. I don’t think he would’ve understood how running a touchdown untouched was ‘doing it wrong’. But, it is something that we will have to work on.
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Post by davecisar on Sept 6, 2007 14:41:53 GMT -6
Playing older competition when you can handle it really gives your team confidence in YOuth Football anyways.
On Tuesday we scrimmaged an age11-12 team, lots bigger and faster than us ( inner-city team) and us just age 10-11 and only one player above 120 lbs. We dominated them 5 TDs to zip after getting over the initial shock of the speed they had. Went 15 palys 1s vs 1s, then 10 plays 2 vs 2s then back with 15 plays 1s vs 1s. SCored 2 times in first segment, but small gains, marched it up the field slowly. Once our kids figured out we could play with them we dominated the next 1s vs 1s segment. They couldnt handle our spinner stuff at all.
In 2003 had a team that was mature enough to handle it and we played up twice ( age 8-10s playing 11-12s we won both). If you have a dominant team IMHO it makes sense to challenge them so they dont get lazy technique wise. If you lose you lose, who cares a challenging game is better for the kdis than blowouts each week.
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Post by tiger46 on Sept 6, 2007 20:28:56 GMT -6
Coach Cisar, you're exactly right about them getting lazy and complacent. We let them line up against the seniors again today. The seniors wanted to redeem themselves a bit about the juniors scoring on them four times yesterday. They were a little tougher on my boys than they were yesterday. My players were lazy at the start and my backs got wrapped up in the backfield. I started calling the play out loud and walking to where the ball was going. When the Jr.'s looked at me and started whining about me telling the play I told them, "All of you know the rule. NO EXCUSES. You didn't want to hustle when only you knew the play. So, I'm calling the play out loud for anybody on the football field that does want to hustle. I called 16P and they gained 8 yards. I shouted out the next several plays. None of them were big gainers. But, not one play got stopped in the backfield again. I can't be totally down on them. We still scored twice!  |
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Post by coachjim on Sept 9, 2007 3:53:56 GMT -6
Well, today at league weigh ins, I found out the admin gave me a kid who is ineligible due to age. They "goofed up." He had been my starting QB the entire preseason (guess I should have wondered why he seemed smarter than the rest of them.) He's the kid who broke his finger during the scrimmage a couple of days ago. Had to tell the mom and kid, "sorry, they didn't catch his age so now... not only can he not play football, he can't play fall baseball with a broken finger, is too small for the older squad, and sorry about Track, that he also gave up for football." They were in tears. The league commisioner couldn't make an exception either. Not when his birthday is in a week. They had the roster for a month, even I would have caught that "tiny" detail if I had access to it. I had three days to prep my backup QB for todays game! It doesn't look good. We went from wanting to keep our offense ON the field, to wondering what we would have to do to keep them OFF the field. What a @#$% nightmare! Maybe it should be MY face on the cover of John Madden 2008, our luck and the negligence of others has been that awful. I have a feeling we are going to get our @$#$# handed to us. A QB with three days of reps. PFFT. It just gets worse and worse. What's next? Lightning strikes the field? Incredible. The only consolation is that if we don't win, at least I can't blame myself or the kids but still. Unbelievable.  This sucks. |
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Post by davecisar on Sept 9, 2007 7:41:27 GMT -6
Run the Single Wing, we dont care if we have a QB or not LOL. Sorry coach, couldnt resist it, best of luck.
I dont like having an offense that revolves around or has to go through 1 player at the youth level for just that reason.
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Post by estore2 on Sept 9, 2007 20:40:32 GMT -6
het that playing up is good but weve played up our last 2 scrimages last week a 65LB AAA team Im a 65lb b team that means i have first year players i didnt let them know before the game that we would be playing a AAA team we did good but boy was they hittin our first year kids so i told them after the scrimage that we played kids that was older and been playing tackle for two years or more that was a 1 play scrimage i also told them that was to get us ready for our first full scrimage which was saturday it was ugly we was unorganized starting with me and then the kids not knowing when they should be in the game what position they was subing for it was a mess and to top it off i ended up scrimagind a 65LB AA team so with all that we handle them they beat us 13-0 but we was hitting they didnt move the ball up and down the field on us one of there scores came off a half back option pass trickery and the other one was set-up by the same trick play and we got a unecsarry ruffness penealty which put them on our five then they ran a dive up the middle they stopped us the whole game by blitzing so we had one 15 yrd. run in the first half and thats about it check out the adjustment i made with about 5min left in the game since we couldnt block them i told my line to come fire out ther stance and cut block and it work like a charm we finally start moving the bal and the wing-t started looking like a wing-t a gain 10yrds then 15yrds then 12yrds then we ran out of time so all and all we learned somthing how to stop penatration so our season opener is this saturday and we finally will play 65LB b teams i think we will do good  |
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Post by davecisar on Sept 10, 2007 5:48:30 GMT -6
My recommendation for playing "up" is only for teams that are doing well and need a challenge to keep them focused. I wouldnt personally do it for a rookie team right out of the gates.
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Post by coachjim on Sept 17, 2007 16:42:15 GMT -6
Totally agree, that's how ya lose all your starters. Totally agree again Dave; my QB with one week experience helped in the 4 TDs we got, although botched a few. I just took the smartest kid on the team and stuck him in there. I'm only reliant on that spot to know the play. I have 11 kids. Lol, what am I saying! I'm totally reliant on every one and position, both ways!  So... 11 kids... you know our background... Game Two: 2005 league champs against us. Their team had shut out the previous 7 opps. Scored four times! Our D struggled, but they play both sides of the ball, so what can ya do. Kids feel like champs now, even though we lost 42-24. Next week vs. weak opponent. I think we are gonna crush. Can't wait! The adversity is killing me but makes the team stronger, week by week. We make a cinderella story look promising... but there is heart and now hope. Hrrrmmmm. *dreams* |
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Post by davecisar on Sept 18, 2007 6:07:44 GMT -6
Golly, 11 thats a tough one.
If I only had 11, I would be using up every second of the clock, be in max slowdown mode from the opening gun and ball control offense.
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Post by coachjim on Sept 19, 2007 4:00:28 GMT -6
Yep, you got it bud, exactly. Total time and ball control. Keeping the other offense on the sidelines and frustrating their stud players on D by keeping them away from the play.
We have had small teams for a few years and have gotten the hang of it. The toughest part is injuries, especially during games when a kid lays down and has to sit out one. (believe it or not, sometimes other teams call a time out for us or last game, the refs used one of theirs!) We have a lot of classy coaches from real old programs that, I think are secretly gunning for our team, heh. The kids' heart, talent, size and adversity is becoming legendary... and 4TD's against the 2005 champs... priceLESS!
I guess that's how you win without winning (w/ all due respect to Lombardi's opinion of losers)
It's hard to quantify heart. But 11-12 kids, playing both sides of the ball, no subs, and against biger playdown opponents all day long. Gotta love and respect these kids... they make us proud.
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Post by estore2 on Sept 19, 2007 5:43:52 GMT -6
I HAD MY FIRST GAME END UP IN A TIE 0-0 12 PLAYERS OF 16 SHOWED UP WE DID BETTER WITH ORGANAIZATION BUT WE HAD KNOW URGANCY IN AND OUT THE HUDDLE SO WE HAD 3 DELAY OF GAME PENALTIES AND I DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO ABOUT MY OFFENSIVE LINE THEY JUST WONT BLOCK WE BEEN HAVING THIS PROBLEM OF MY A AND B GAPS GETTING BLOWN UP SINCE PRESEASON SOON AS MY QB GETS THE BALL THEY ARE ON HIM OR MY BACKS I TRIED TEACHING CUT BLOCK DIDNT WORK SO TODAY WENT BACK TO OL DRILLS I NEED ADVICE ON THIS ONE BUT WHAT I CAN SAY IS MY DEFENSE WAS HITTING SO ALL IN ALL I THINK WE DID GOOD SO TIME TO GET READY FOR OUR SECOND GAME  |
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Post by davecisar on Sept 19, 2007 5:58:31 GMT -6
I HAD MY FIRST GAME END UP IN A TIE 0-0 12 PLAYERS OF 16 SHOWED UP WE DID BETTER WITH ORGANAIZATION BUT WE HAD KNOW URGANCY IN AND OUT THE HUDDLE SO WE HAD 3 DELAY OF GAME PENALTIES AND I DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO ABOUT MY OFFENSIVE LINE THEY JUST WONT BLOCK WE BEEN HAVING THIS PROBLEM OF MY A AND B GAPS GETTING BLOWN UP SINCE PRESEASON SOON AS MY QB GETS THE BALL THEY ARE ON HIM OR MY BACKS I TRIED TEACHING CUT BLOCK DIDNT WORK SO TODAY WENT BACK TO OL DRILLS I NEED ADVICE ON THIS ONE BUT WHAT I CAN SAY IS MY DEFENSE WAS HITTING SO ALL IN ALL I THINK WE DID GOOD SO TIME TO GET READY FOR OUR SECOND GAME Many times teams in this scenario have O-Lines that play tentatively becaus they dont know who to block. If you re getting beat 50-0 its probably because you have no players, but 0-0 is often because your o-line is performing poorly. In youth football IMHO "who" to block is more important than the execution of the block itself. We do however try to get great at both. A great block on the wrong defender will often leave a player unblocked and your QB gets smacked around. On the other hand, a poor block on the right player often gets just enough of him so that the defender doesnt make a play. Confidence in who your kids are supposed to block every play gives them the potential to play aggressively. Tenativeness=playing soft. Blocking by front or "the man in front of you", or asking your least athletic kids ( your O-linemen) to track down and block the other teams best , fastest and most aggressive players (linebackers) in space leaves youth players confused and sets them up for failure that compounds over time. If it was my team, I would shorten the splits to foot to foot and put a simple blocking scheme in place like GOD, Inside gap, on, unconditional down. Kick out the EMLOS with a back and run some basic plays. Keep it simple by perfecting 6 integrated plays ( no one trick ponies)and go from here. |
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Post by davecisar on Sept 19, 2007 6:04:03 GMT -6
My age 7-9 team won 26-0 and gave up just 1 first down after going up 14-0 in the first quarter.
All rookie team evened out at 2-2.
My age 10-11 team won 36-0, leading 36-0 in 3rd quarter, running clock etc. Our first team defense did not give up a first down, first team offense scored on every possession ( seconds got stopped twice) , defense had negative yards at end of game. This team lined up in a power I with the up backs at 5 yards and TB at 7 yards. Poor kid had to run 7 yards before he even got to the LOS, didnt make a lot of sense with average speed. They were 0-4 passing with an INT. We were 3-3 passing with 1 TD. Now 4-0.
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Post by tiger46 on Sept 20, 2007 7:40:20 GMT -6
Yep, you got it bud, exactly. Total time and ball control. Keeping the other offense on the sidelines and frustrating their stud players on D by keeping them away from the play. We have had small teams for a few years and have gotten the hang of it. The toughest part is injuries, especially during games when a kid lays down and has to sit out one. (believe it or not, sometimes other teams call a time out for us or last game, the refs used one of theirs!) We have a lot of classy coaches from real old programs that, I think are secretly gunning for our team, heh. The kids' heart, talent, size and adversity is becoming legendary... and 4TD's against the 2005 champs... priceLESS! I guess that's how you win without winning (w/ all due respect to Lombardi's opinion of losers) It's hard to quantify heart. But 11-12 kids, playing both sides of the ball, no subs, and against biger playdown opponents all day long. Gotta love and respect these kids... they make us proud. I'm cheering for you, coach. We played under those exact same circumstances last year. We had 11 players. We had to play some games with 10; and, even a game with just 9 players. Funny thing about concepts like "heart" and "will to win"; we didn't lose any of those four games.  |
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Post by estore2 on Sept 24, 2007 13:59:52 GMT -6
we didnt play our game saturday no refs my kids was fired up and ready to go weve been working on blocking all week i think they finally got it the thing about it our75lb played before us then the refs left im pretty sure they could have did our game i guess the county didnt pay or we was suppose to have another ref crew so we went on and scrimaged 10 plays offense and defense we looked good defense they didnt gain a yard offense i just ran my I plays 33/34 smash 25/26 slants we gained good yards and blocked pretty good i didnt want to show my wing-t because the game is going to be rescheduled we got a night game wedns so hope everything goes fine with refs we are itching to play
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Post by estore2 on Sept 27, 2007 9:38:53 GMT -6
we had another close one under the lights we pulled it out we went up on them 6-0 looked like a real team then we started that same old confusing stuff so we didnt score from there 20 ran out of time told them at half it should be at least 12-0 instead its 6-0 then we got the openning kickoff but they stopped us my players arguing over the plays in the huddle i run my plays in with other players thats not going to work so i seen this team huddle by the sideline at the hashmark thats what im going to do so i can give the play to him myself and he will be close enough to get the play right to them so our 6-3 defense was crushing them and we was stopping ourselves but you know what they say when you let a team hang around 4min 30 seconds left in the game they broke for at least a 55yrd td tie game i said here we go again another tie so we get the ball i call 18qb keep they strung it out no yrds i reconized they was spread out to stop our sweeps so i hit them with a 35belly counter td off tackle on the weakside for 50 yrds they got the ball back 6-3 def. stopped them we took a knee and ball game !!!!!!! their worst than my redskins with these close ones im going to start calling them the cardiac kids because they will give you a heart attack i didnt have this problem when i was coaching flag i went 12-0 won the championship last year the year before that we went 9-1 and lost in the playoff so i pretty much have the same kids now but they sure make it hard thinks again coach DAVECISAR for that blocking info we did do a great job on that |
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Post by davecisar on Sept 30, 2007 16:36:04 GMT -6
Ive been keeping our jet stuff under wraps because many of my competitors read this forum. In fact the age 7-9 coach that we played today told me he had watched my DVD and liked it, but thought it was "too complicated' lol, but he was very complimentary.
At the younger all rookie level we played a monster team, totally massive. We won 19-6 after being up 19-0 in the third quarter and letting off the gas. Thats 4 in a row for my all rookie kids and they are now believers.
Huge mouse BB wedge play for TD as we were running our TB a bunch and they bit. Same for our Mouse ( TB 1/2 Spin series) FB wedge, broke the game wide open. They were bigger, faster and better than us and we blew them out, kind of surprised them and us both. My center was outweighed by over 70 lbs, same for my RT.
At the older level, age 10-11 we beat a 4-0 team 34-6 after leading 34-6 at the end of 3 and 28-6 at half. They had been winning most of their games by 30+. They were very physical, we wont be having much contact this week, plasy stopped 3 times to take kids off the field, nothing serious. For the second week in a row, we unleashed our jet series attack per Osborne High in Virginia ( John Minteer, thanks John and Steve from the DC Nike Clinic)
We ran about 1/3 jet series stuff, jet sweep, jet trap, jet power, jet pass, jet wedge, jet counter etc. For second week in a row it was the bomb. Minteer is a genious. First time we ran jet trap it looked like the parting of the red sea, even my team mom could have scored on it.
I would NOT recommend the jet gun offense for most youth teams, but we have 2 kids in the 90th percentile in the league for speed and its the third year for both of them.
Will show more later, and probably post a utube clip in the next 30 days or so.
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Post by davecisar on Oct 7, 2007 10:53:43 GMT -6
Was really happy about this weeks results. My all rookie age 7-9 team is really coming on strong, hitting on all cylindars now. Every week they are getting better, now they are pretty good little football team. Played a 4-1 team that had shut out 3 opponents. Score in first half:- down 7-0, tied 7-7, down 14-7, tied 14-14. Up 21-14, up 28-14. We scored with 3 ticks left from their 35, they widened everyone out, looking for the reverse. We ran off-tackle and scored. They were in a 6-5 and sometimes an 8-3. They were on all fours in our A&B gaps so the 16 was begging to be run. On 2 different drives we ran nothing but the 16 power ( Single Wing Offense, TB off-tackle strong), EVERY PLAY. On 4th and 2 from our own 40 they bunched everyone in tight and moved their best kid as an additional off-tackle LB, we ran 43 reverse( wing reverse) for another score.
We didnt tackle as well as we normally do, but ended up winning anyways 47-26. Our first team offense scored on every possession including a 43 reverse ( Wing REverse) and a beautiful untouched Mouse 32 wedge ( T series, TB 1/2 Spin BB wedge). They finally moved to a different defense and stacked another LB in the off-tackle hole. Back to the wedge LOL. We are now 5-2, and no way anyone wants to play us now. This with a team I thought we woud be real lucky to go .500 with. Would love to have those 12-6 and 7-6 first two games back.
Our older age 10-11 team came out smoking against a 3-2 team that had won 52-0 the previous week. Before you batted an eye we were up 24-0 in the first quarter with a mix of off-tackle runs, spinners and jet sweep plays all out of our Single Wing offense with a few formatio twists. Once they were biting on the jet, we ran lots of stuff underneath it. Our jump pass was right on the money.
This team had 3 kids diving our wedge but they dived it at a weird angle that only took the center/LG portion of the wedge out, so my RBS just adjusted and we ran the darn thing anyways 6-7 times for nice gains and a long TD (Spinner BB wedge). We were up 32-0 on first possession of the third quarter, so I got all my linemen but 1 the ball. Had 12 different ball carriers and my RT even scored, as we ran the linemen and all the backups at the 16 power ( TB off-tackle Strong) pretty much every snap with a different ball carrier in the 4th quarter. Was pleasantly surprised we won this one so easily 39-0. Now 6-1 with this team.
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Post by estore2 on Oct 8, 2007 13:33:51 GMT -6
well this was a ruff one we went down 12-0 this week to a team that was 2-0 we started with good ball movement we moved down to their 15 and then they stopped us but we chewed up all of the first quater they ran double wing so they had a long run of a misdirection run that put them on our ten so my D rose to the occassion 4th and 9 they run up the middle perfect form fit by LB but didnt keep his feet moving then here comes his help perfect gang tackle then my other D players going for the strip of the football just like we teach only thing now is the runner is still moving pile and the ref has a slow whistle so the rb moved the pile and i thought he fell short of the goal line but the refs didnt see that way touchdown we stop their extra point they up 6-0 we get the ball back im running wing-t so i hit them with a 33 belly hole clogged up my fb reverse field and gain 40 yrds we are on their 30 then i put my first string full back in that didnt start because of his behavior in practice and he breaks it and fumbles the ball we recover it so as we are moving to go in to tie the game we run out of time half time another blown oppurtunity. so we have to kick off to them they run a couple of plays and a fight breaks out between two coaches on the other team so for the safety of our kids we get them off the field now the ref is trying to get us the bring our kids back on the field but know way we are going for that he had the nerve to threaten us by saying he's going to start the clock now that made my assistant coaches go off so im trying to calm them down now everything is calm we come back out to finish the game two plays later another fight this time one of their parents and one of their coaches it was a mess so we take our kids off the field again so after all of this they finally get their sideline peaceful and we continue the game so their marching down the field ive lost track of time but the ref informs me its 4min. left 6-0 its 4 down and 10 and their on our 19 i tell my guys we need this stop and we can win this game do you know the exact same thing happen their running back pushes the pile for ten yrds while my guys are trying to stripp the ball instead of taking the runner down so they get the first down and the next play score we stop the extra point 12-0 with 2mi 21sec. left again we move the ball down but didnt score so thats my weekend game my record 1-1-1 at least im 500 but i think my kids was mentally drained from adults not knowing how to act my 9 yr old asked me after the game if we had to play them again i said yeah if we make it to yhe playoffs he then asked did we had to play on their field i asked why he said he didnt want to play them there because it was to much commotion so i know the rest of my team was disturbed as well
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Post by estore2 on Oct 16, 2007 15:46:37 GMT -6
coaches this is another terrible one we went down 6-0 my guys played a hard one 0-0 all the way through but again we didn't finish we moved the ball from the 20 to 20 offense looking good again but i must have a red zone jinks because everytime we get down their penalty or fumble im lost need help with some red zone plays we are on their 2yrd line first down i say to myself two QB sneaks up the middle and we should have a TD and be up 6 nothing what happens fumble the snap they recover the ball now check this out i have 3 time outs left they have the ball with 2 min left they start on our 40yrd line so i'm hoping my defense stops them but they are driving i dont want to stop the clock for them now its just seconds left and they bust a 15 yrd run to our 1yrd line mind you it 4th and 15 for the first down because we made them lose yrds on 3rd down now by the time they set up the clock should run out and the game ends in a tie..... nope stupid ref stops the clock with 3sec.to do a measurement which gives them time to set up over the ball and QB sneaks in to the end zone TD they win 6- 0 my record now 1-2-1 and that team is now 5-0 the coach said to me after the game doing hand shakes he will see me in th championship.... i wish.... we have to win all the rest of our games and need a couple of teams to lose 3 we have 4 more games to go but what i did see is open field blocking and staying on your blocks is what i need help with any drills come to mind
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Post by davecisar on Oct 16, 2007 16:28:36 GMT -6
Rained out this week
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Post by estore2 on Oct 24, 2007 16:23:36 GMT -6
we got blew out 20-0 and what do i say about a game like that but nothing went right so hopefully we will get it together this weekend for our homecoming. |
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Post by estore2 on Oct 28, 2007 18:41:45 GMT -6
we got another win today it was our homecoming we represented with a 13-0 shut out we ar 2-3-1 with two games left holloween and saturday so we are trying to end this season with 3 victories our playoffs hopes are over but my first year kids 65lb 7-8 year olds learned alot cant wait to next year to try it again coach Dev. you need to tell me how you're keeping up with the new england patriots in scoring you must be avg. 28 points per game what offense are you running and defense
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Post by estore2 on Nov 4, 2007 14:21:09 GMT -6
were done 3-3-2 my first year of contact football brought up 13 players from my championship flag team and 3 second year tackle players and we end up 1 game above 500 so i would say we had a productive season the three teams we lost to are all playoff teams and they are AA im first year B team so we do it again next year i hope to see lots of clinic stuff on the web site doing the off season thinks for all the help guys
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Post by coachkyle on Nov 14, 2007 12:49:28 GMT -6
I felt compelled to write this for youth coaches. I have been coaching for 7 years now. I originally took a team from the 2nd grade to the 7th grade. This year I took over a 4th grade team. I do not have a son that plays on the team. We ended the season 13-0. We outscored our opponents roughly 325-75. We played very good teams from Oklahoma, Nebraska and Kansas.
My first team was small and we were a .500 team. This year we were very dominant. I can attribute this to a few things. We took the time early in the year to teach correct blocking and tackling. We drilled it often and early. Steps, hands , heads , second level, etc....
I think kids this age are ready to learn these fundamentals. We did nothing fancy. We lined up and pounded off tackle. Counters when they overplayed. Tried to get the corner every now and then to keep the D's honest. Our running backs hit the hole hard and quick. I think if you can have the patience to attack in this manner on offensive a lot more youth teams could have success. Its not fancy. Not a lot of trick plays. We passed maybe six times the entire year. If you stick with hard nosed , sound fundamental football at any level you will have success. We called off tackle " bread and butter" The kids loved it. The linemen got excited. I put the onus on them to get us those tough yards and praised the as much or more for us being able to run the ball than the backs.
Good Luck to all next year. When in doubt: Go back to the basics.
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Post by tedseay on Nov 15, 2007 10:09:36 GMT -6
Coach: Congratulations on a great season. Your philosophy sounds a whole lot like what Smith Center is doing in Kansas and (more to the point) what Dave Cisar's youth teams are doing in Nebraska. ...is there something in the water around there that prevents "five-wide disease" at the youth level?  |
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Post by coachkyle on Nov 15, 2007 11:14:51 GMT -6
Coach, Thanks for the kind words. Once they get to the 6th or 7th grade we will run some Rampy pistol and spread em out a little. The gap seems to close in talent and coaching as they get a older and we have to get a little more creative. I never abandon our power game but always have some other stuff installed. Plus the kids seem to enjoy other things besides 4yds and a cloud of dust. I dont know if its just the midwest attitude. check out www.bluevalleyfootball.org/bvraidersspoon/index.php our team site |
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Post by CoachJ on Nov 16, 2007 9:07:41 GMT -6
I felt compelled to write this for youth coaches. I have been coaching for 7 years now. I originally took a team from the 2nd grade to the 7th grade. This year I took over a 4th grade team. I do not have a son that plays on the team. We ended the season 13-0. We outscored our opponents roughly 325-75. We played very good teams from Oklahoma, Nebraska and Kansas. My first team was small and we were a .500 team. This year we were very dominant. I can attribute this to a few things. We took the time early in the year to teach correct blocking and tackling. We drilled it often and early. Steps, hands , heads , second level, etc.... I think kids this age are ready to learn these fundamentals. We did nothing fancy. We lined up and pounded off tackle. Counters when they overplayed. Tried to get the corner every now and then to keep the D's honest. Our running backs hit the hole hard and quick. I think if you can have the patience to attack in this manner on offensive a lot more youth teams could have success. Its not fancy. Not a lot of trick plays. We passed maybe six times the entire year. If you stick with hard nosed , sound fundamental football at any level you will have success. We called off tackle " bread and butter" The kids loved it. The linemen got excited. I put the onus on them to get us those tough yards and praised the as much or more for us being able to run the ball than the backs. Good Luck to all next year. When in doubt: Go back to the basics. Coach, When in doubt, I agree pound it out. Now if you are able to do more, why not? See I come from a school of thought that not many coaches do. I believe in my players abilities almost to a fault. I believe they can play better and do things that they never dreamed of. Where other coaches doubt they are able to do "X" thing, I take it as challenge to make my players believe they can do whatever they want to. That all avenues are open in life and they don't have to accept traditional roles. Our QB this year had never played QB. Only wingback. He really wanted to try QB. He threw for over 1000 yards this season and ran for almost 1,000 yards in 10 games. My team MVP was a center his whole career. He has played 6 years of football and has never played anything other than center and DT. He tried out as an OL this year too. This season he played FB, TE, LB, DE, DT and took some snaps as a backup QB. When I asked him to play something other than line, he was shocked. The first time he led block as a fullback, he was unsure. By the end of the season he was an animal. The first time we lined up in 5 wide (yes the dreaded 5 wide) our kids were unsure and nervous. Then we moved the ball down the field and scored on our first 5 wide drive. They perked up and it became fun. We actually got really good at our screen game this year too. Of course, when in doubt, we did pound the ball. All teams on all level do that, but we also mixed it up. So you CAN do both successfully, but it takes a different attitude. |
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