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Message: [QUOTE="ShippDawg, post: 2170729, member: 5105"] I've coached 5-6 and 7-8 for a number of years. Our league is 7 on 7, everyone is eligible for pass or run, no blocking, but you can "shield" (essentially a moving pick). QB can't run the ball. He has 10 seconds to throw and he can't be rushed. Coach is allowed in the huddle to show plays and to assist with lining kids up, etc I run 3 plays out of the same formation. Everyone is doing the same action. Single back behind the QB. WR split wide right. First play is just a stretch run to the right to the single RB. WR lined up wide right comes around and QB fakes to him after the stretch run hand off. After running the stretch run hand off to the RB a couple times, I have the QB fake the stretch run hand off to the RB and give it to the WR who is coming around. You have to practice the timing so the WR lets the fake take place before he comes for the hand off. It has the look of a fake dive, end around type play. The WR usually has the left backside open because everyone thinks it's the stretch run to the right again and is crashing down on the RB. The third variation off of that is a play action pass. Same formation, fake the the stretch run to the RB, fake the WR around hand off and have the guy lined up at right guard run to the right flat and the RB you faked the stretch run to run a deep corner to the right. QB chooses high low, guard in the flat, or RB in the deep corner. 90% of the time it's the deep corner RB. That play is usually a guaranteed TD if you have a couple kids that can throw and catch. The defense is chasing the fake dive, then the fake end around, and everyone on the defense is out of position. I always tried to use deception, but not get too complex for the age. Get your athletes the ball in space pressuring the corners. If the defense keeps widening out to take away the outside run game, we'd run a quick hitter inside hand off to a guy lined up tight in the slot. The defense would lose him behind the center and guard. Passing wise I used play action like I described above, and delayed passes quite a bit. Every kid runs downfield routes except one. The guy staying in delays 4-5 seconds while the defenders are chasing your other kids downfield and then the delay kid sneaks out and the QB drops it to him. Obviously I spent way too much time designing plays for kids...DM me your email if you want me to send you the sheets I used to show the kids in the huddle. [/QUOTE]

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