Flag Football Offense Progression Read
As flag football continues to grow and expand across the globe, the strategy involved with the game is improving. No longer can a flag football offense just send everyone out on deep routes and expect to have success. Quarterbacks who can’t read the field and defenses will struggle at the adult flag football level. Core passing game staples like a progression read are needed to move the football.
A good flag football offense will have passing plays where the ball is out of the quarterback’s hand quickly. Good coaches also use a misdirection run game to slow down the pass rush on the quarterback.
If your quarterback is going to avoid sacks they need to have specific reads just like tackle football. In the play below we take your quarterback through a progression read that will allow them to quickly get through three options.
FirstDown PlayBook helps you out with this by color coding our progression reads for you. If you want to change that up, you can easily do that by editing the play on FirstDown PlayBook.
The important point is to take the quarterback’s eyes where you want them, when you want them there. Flag football is a little different than 11 man football in that you can get a heavy dose of man coverage. However this play is good vs man or zone coverage.
1st Read= Green 2nd Read=Blue 3rd Read=Red
The beauty of a flag football progression read is that your quarterback’s eyes are trained to quickly go through a 1-2-3 read. In this case the read goes F to Z to X.
The F will get to 5 yards and sit just for an instant before bursting away from the defender. The quarterback should put the ball where the F can catch it on the move to the outside. This will help the YAC factor. (Yards After Catch).
If the F is covered, the QB quickly looks to hit the Z on the move at 12 yards coming across the middle on an In route. If things don’t look good to the primary side, you have a built in check down with the X running an under route. The X should be patient. They should not show up until late because the quarterback will not be looking for them until then anyway.
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The Center has two asterisks for a reason. If you ever got in a situation where the defense covered you center with a slower player you could throw the corner route for a home run. This is there for a coach who has an experienced quarterback who can recognize matchups.
What you will find as you begin to run flag football progression reads is that your players will play faster. If your receivers play fast and are where they are supposed to be, you will move the football. Your offense will then be able to take shots down the field as the defense sits on your short passing game.
FirstDown PlayBook offers you 12 different NFL Flag offensive formations. Don’t try to run them all, but find the one or two that are right for your team. Click 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!
