Touch Football Plays

Well, I'm having trouble getting the individual pictures up here, which I'll work on.

As it is, I'll describe my general thoughts on each play.

Play 1: This is kind of the base play that we will run as long as it works, just to keep things simple. Hopefully, what should happen is one of two things if a zone is being played:

1. The short in routes will draw anyone playing zone in the middle of the field. This should hopefully clear up room for both the deeper routes, but especially the posts running into the center of the field.

2. The deep routes should hopefully cause any deep safeties to make a choice which one to guard. I will have to decide which way the safety is going and obviously throw to the other person. It is important here to keep good spacing then between the 2 different routes so the safeties can't cover both at the same time.

Play 2.

Again, the hope is to make someone in zone commit to one route and leave the other route open. Here, I'm going to wager than the deep route going to the sideline (called a fade, for those unfamiliar) will be the open one. I would think the short defenders in the middle and outside will either follow the short out route, or worry about the deeper post route. I would also assume the middle safeties will pay attention to the post route since it'd go straight through them.

Play 3.

Spacing is key here. The 2 in routes need to be far enough apart so no one person can cover both routets. Again, I'm hoping to make the safeties have to decide between the deeper in route or the fly routes. I'm also hoping that the short in routes will draw at least the middle zone players so the deep in route might be open.

Play 4.

This would likely be a quick hit type play. I wouldn't expect it to go for many yards, but I seemed to get the feeling this past Saturday that a lot of times its going to be dink-and-dunk type football anyways. Likely, the most inside person at the start is going to be open, as I doubt anyone is going to be disciplined enough to ignore the two outside people going inside. Again, I'll have to read how its played though and see what spaces are created.

Play 5.

I'm not going to lie. I kind of was just messing around with this to see if we could really screw up an opposing defense before the snap. It's really not a complicated play, and would be easy to defend if the defense stays with their responsibility. Of course, my hope is that all the movement and the strange formation will cause a defense to freak out and make mistakes. I'm hoping for the deep post coming from the left to be open. If its not, I would assume the short out pattern will be open. Failing that, just run around.

Trick Play 1.
I'm not sure if people want to do trick plays, and I need to look at the rule book to make sure we can do something like this. But it can't hurt to have it in the books. The drawing here represents me throwing the ball back to the outside receiver, who would then throw it downfield. In regular football rules, it is key that the receiver is behind the qb throwing the ball, so I'll be sure to move up the snap. I'll probably also run a deep route in this play to see if the defense pays attention to me after I get rid of the ball. Of course the wide receiver also has the option of running the ball if things fall apart.

Trick Play 2.
Basically, a pitch throw play. I'll pitch the ball to someone running behind me, and they'll roll out and throw it. Again, the option to run is open. These trick plays might be a decent option for gender plays too, but again, I need to review the rules again.

Goalline.
The hope here is to get people moving in different directions to make the defense play everyone man-up. Spacing is important here. I want the short out route to run right inside the goal line, while the deep in route runs right at the back of the goal line. The fade pattern should be running straight towards the back corner of the endzone. If this play breaks down, just try to stay to your route's area to keep spacing decent. And keep your head up when the defense can rush; I'm going to wager I can outrun most people rushing me, meaning someone covering wide receivers will need to step up to stop me from scoring. This should create open plays (I think this is what happened on our TD last week).

Defenses. (just to be clear triangle=defensive player; dash line is the line of scrimmage)
Lastly, on the defenses, basically I put up the 4 defenses I thought we'd most likely see. The spots that I've circled and highlighted are the spots where we need to look for openings in the defense. In other words, these are the areas you should attack and look for me to throw the ball to.

As I said in the email I sent out, feel free to comment or criticize any of this. I've never really done it before so I'm no genius on this by any measure. I'll leave comments up too so people can leave any comments right here. I'll also work on getting the pictures up here.