How to Coach a Flag Football Team
Coaching a flag football team can be both challenging and fun. By preparing your players well, you can make sure that your team is ready for each game as it arrives. Follow these steps to best coach a flag football team.
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Schedule practices ahead of time. To give the players on your team enough time to clear their schedules, it's best to plan out the practice times and locations at the beginning of the season.
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Assess the talent on your team. The faster players should play wide receiver on your flag football team. The stronger players are better suited to play as blockers. The most accurate passer should be the quarterback of your team. Defensively, you want to look for strong players to rush the quarterback and quick players to defend the wide receivers. Allowing each player to fill a role they are capable of filing is a huge key in coaching a successful flag football team.
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Play to the strengths of your players. If you have a lot of speedy players who can catch the ball and a quarterback with a strong arm, utilizing a pass heavy offense makes sense. However, if your team isn't overly fast, utilizing a more plodding offense is more effective. Defensively, if your team isn't fast enough to cover wide receivers, consider putting more players into pass protection.
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Consider acquiring flag football plays online (see Resources). Often they have playbooks for sale that can help both your offensive and defensive units.
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Remain patient with your players. Flag football is a difficult game to manage and takes great team chemistry to be successful. That team chemistry can only be built over time after the players on your team have played with each other for a while.
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