5 Ways We Help You Teach Flag Football


By FirstDown PlayBook on Aug 10, 2024

The longer you coach, the more you appreciate the value of teaching your players in as many different ways as possible. There are several reasons for this. Today we will apply them to how you teach flag football.

First, you may not know how all of your players learn when you first start coaching them. Until you do, it is a good idea to approach it from several different angles. Just to make sure your message gets home.

Secondly, it’s always good to reinforce your coaching points. If you can take it from the playbook, to the grease board, to the walk through, to practice, you are going to begin to see the benefits of repetitive learning. This holds true for both sides of the ball.

Here’s A Flag Football Defensive Changeup For You

FirstDown PlayBook thinks about this with each and every play diagram we draw for you. Below is one of your flag football plays. Notice the number of ways we help you reinforce your teaching. The way you teach flag football matters. Your players need reinforcement in as many different ways as you can provide them.

5 Ways FirstDown PlayBook Helps You Teach Flag Football

  1. Clean Colorful Drawings: It matters. You want drawings that your players will want to look at. That’s the point right? Black and white drawings will not cut it with today’s young players.
  2. A Teaching Progression: Notice how the Quarterback has a 1-2-3 progression that is taught not only with numbers but colors as well. This is foundational football that should be taught.
  3. Text On The Drawing: Sometimes the best place to put the instructions for a player is right beside the assignment on the drawing. This allows you to teach flag football two ways on the same page.
  4. Detailed Coaching Points: Look, we understand that this may actually be for you, the coach, when you are coaching flag football but it benefits the player in the long run and that’s a good thing.
  5. Multiple PlayBook Tools To Use: With FirstDown PlayBook you have individual plays like this, but also PlayBooks, PlayGrids and the very popular WristBand Sheets. FirstDown PlayBook even offers you three official flag football fields to draw on. Once again, the more ways you can teach the better!

Yes, FirstDown PlayBook Has Tackle Youth Football Help Too…

So if you are about to embark on your annual time consuming quest to find sound flag football plays, that you are going to have to draw and then do heaven knows what to get ready for practice, we have a suggestion…

STOP! CLICK ON THE DRAWING BELOW!

FirstDown PlayBook offers you hundreds of flag football plays and defenses. This is just a small sample our 5v5 Flag Football formations. You should consider one or two of these for your NFL Flag offense. Tap on any one of the tiles below to visit the article describing that formation. After reading the article then go join FirstDown PlayBook and get busy coaching your NFL Flag team with the best playbook and flag football wrist sheets available!

Angellica Grayson