Step Up Your Adult Flag Football Game


By FirstDown PlayBook on Mar 13, 2025
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Your adult flag football team probably goes something like this. Who’s going to play quarterback? Ok now who’s going to be receivers? Ok Charlie, you have to snap the ball too. Plays you ask? Well, everyone go deep and I will throw it to who wins. If no one gets open then I will just pull the ball down and run it. Didn’t you watch the Pro Bowl? That’s how they did it!

The college and high school women have shown us a different and better way to play flag football. There is a vertical and horizontal way to play flag football. Guess what? You can create misdirection too. All of these things are necessary because in most flag football leagues you cannot block.

Necessity is the mother of invention and that is why adult flag football is evolving with or without you or me. You can bet that the 2028 Olympics will accelerate this. It’s called evolution. Evolve or die. There is a very simple solution. Someone needs to take the role as the flag football coach.

Look, no one is having fun when you are getting drilled every game. Like all coaches you will need resources. That is where FirstDown PlayBook comes in. We can help you coach your flag football team. Adult flag football? Yes. NFL Flag team? Yeah, we have you covered more than most. (More than even NFL Flag).

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You should be running some of the same concepts like Hank and Drive that the tackle and 7on7 teams do. You should also create confusion with a flag football misdirection offense. The four time national flag football champions leaned on FirstDown PlayBook during their historic year. We can help your adult flag football team too.

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