Art Kehoe sharing the real truth about 7 on 7...

Exactly. Great tool especially early on in the process 

I like it too, but do you run Cover 2 Man Under every snap during the season?  If not, there's no point in using it every snap during a 7 on 7 league/tournament unless you're only goal is to win and not to get better at your defense.

Those same DC's start screaming when you throw a screen or stalk block just to show them how stupid the whole thing is.

Ive always felt that a fair number of the 7 on 7s are won by the team that simply pushes the envelope on the physicality the most and earliest. 

You know there is gonna be one team whose got their LBs and Safeties all jacked up to clean clocks and play just beyond what is accepted. In doing so they get a big jump on the opposition; and by the time the other team realizes it and tries to match their physicality, the refs (or whomever is in charge) starts to get it under control. But by then the physical team has gained a leg up.

I felt the same about a lot of basketball games when I used to coach it. 

Ha! Yeah. And also the QB who takes several steps up in the pocket and releases the ball right at the LOS.

Played against a team in a 7 on 7 tournament that fit the bill on both sides last year, super physical on defense and 5 in the route every time on O. Lots of RB wheels, etc. they won the tournament and let everybody know.

This will shock a lot of people, that was one of the softest teams in the league in the fall and they went something like 3-7. Only 1 of those defensive guys was actually a physical contact football player and they would hit that RB wheel about once a game and their QB would get hit about 15 times a game. And lots of teams and coaches were pissed off about the way they had conducted themselves at that tournament and made them pay in the fall.

Yeah we get together with another team and practice together 4 or 5 times in the summer, no score, just like you would in a practice except obviously no script of what the other guys are going to do. That is great work, I love doing that.

We do 1 tourney a year for the last 2 years. We've done ok but the 2 champions have combined for 3 or 4 wins over there last 2 football seasons so we take it for what it's worth.

In a serious response we haven't done a tournament in at least 3 years. We do about 3-5 7 on 7's a summer. 1 is usually a 4 way with a few bigger schools so we like to see how we stack up against the big boys. Most of the time we just like to compete a little bit, maybe help out the other team see something specific if it's in our playbook if they need work, and stop to teach if assignments aren't handled properly. I want the ring at the end of the year not a BS trophy in July.

I really don't think so. I really don't. And if it does happen, there is no way it be as popular as the current NFL.

Experienced an almost identical scenario. Only difference was there was no rule against the empty formation. We come out in empty (which we actually ran), and the defense lines up in man under and doesn't have a defender within 15 yards of the center. After our quarterback ran for 25 yards, the other team's DC starts yapping and he and my head coach start barking at each other.

Like you said, it was probably less than professional, but it got a point across and energized our kids.

i do not love it
but i really think 10-20 years from now you will see parts of the country have "7on7" as a team sport in the spring time

your whole league, each team has their own spring 7on7 team, kids play on it
you play out your league schedule
there is playoffs

some kids might even only play in spring 7on7 and not in the real season because theyre worried about CTE

I think there is some truth to this, but not sure it will be in the Spring.  Isn't this already occurring in the summer? 

That would be great, but most of the 7 on 7 games I see are on makeshift fields and there would be no way to add a goalpost to it. 

And to be perfectly honest, I'm going to defend some of these 7 on 7 tournaments for a bit. Those who do them right, put in a ton of work to organize them such as measuring fields, lining them and providing hashmarks as well as paying for officials, stopwatches, and all of the other stuff. This is particularly true for the actual high school football teams that organize them and I can respect that. It's the all-star tournaments that are only for "exposure" and fattening some pockets that drive me nuts. 

I actually think that football will enjoy a re-birth in 25-30 years if it can hold on due actual understanding of the safety issues.

I am not denying concussions are real or that CTE is real, but there is a hysteria about them right now. Hysteria passes over time and more importantly today's players will be 60 in 30 years which is a HUGE bonus.

Here is why: concussions and CTE from football were at all-time high in the past. Define past however you want, recent past, 5 years ago, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 years ago - I don't care. It was the past.

Concussions and CTE are about to dramatically be better from this day forward. Really I would say since the last 2-3 years. First and main reason is true awareness. People actual follow concussion protocols now. Everyone knows about it. Better rules. Better techniques. Better helmets. Smarter and more aware players and coaches and doctors and trainers, etc.

So in 30 years, the people that are currently playing will have even less CTE than the current 60 year olds, and I suspect we will start finding many natural links to CTE and find that tons of things contribute to it, not just football.