7 ON 7

Yes I deal with it all the time I get a 100% cover 3 team that morphs into a Cover 2 man team in 7 on 7. I use it aginst them I shift, motion and run crossing routes until the cows come home. Just look at what they are doing and figure out how to hurt them. It is usually much easier to find a tweak to a play you have on offense to hurt them. Either stretch them vertically with crossing routes or horizontally with vertical routes, another good one is runnign play action, you would be amazed how many teams (including us) bite on play action in 7 on 7

Down here in La at Evangel, we take 7 on 7 seriiously because it transfers to the field in the fall. Many of the same things that you during the competition, we do during the fall. While it is a fun game, we practice twice a week and play on Thurs. We enter two or three tourneys a year. It teaches the kids to compete, get thousands of reps throwing the football, catching fhe football, running your route correctly, how to get off a jam at the LOS, learn to sit down in the void,QB footwork, how to make his reads correctly and that is just the offensive side of it. The defensive side learns many things to do also that transfers to the fall. Things such as mixing coverages, jamming WR, learning to backpedal full speed, learning to read QB eyes, learning to compete at full speed, once the WR catches the pass go FULL Speed as if you would make the tackle in the fall, learning to make that INT and learning how to compete which is the biggest thing in the summer to me that is important. It also helps greatly with team chemistry.

One of the disadvantages of 7 on 7 is when you play a team that will motion and then snap the ball where the center or guard will be and the WR would just catch the ball within a yard or two where the offensive line would be. To me that is not realistic football that will transfer to the fall. Another hard thing about 7 on 7 is where you have a QB sprinting to one side and he goes over the LOS as he is looking for a WR. They should lose down down like in the fall. Lately, we have faced teams that want to play 7 offensive players vs 8 defensive players. They are going with that 3 man defensive line so they want to be able to drop 8. I understand the reasoning behind it but in my view and it may be cloudy but again transfer it to the fall, if you have 3 down linemen we probably will attempt to run the football. Some teams will drop a LB to a knee like he was blitizing so there is just 7 left to cover.

7 on 7 is catching on a lot here in the south. Several states have 7 on 7 state championships such as La and Texas. Big tournaments are played like the shootout of the south that is held in Ark and the National 7 on7 championship that is held in Hoover Ala put on by the National Association of High School Coaches Association. I believe there is 16 qualifying tournaments for teams to make the 39 team field that will be held on July 24-26th.