No longer just a coordinator

[Mr. Scot]

Over the past few years, I've been an assistant coach in a local church kids' flag football league, helping out a buddy of mine who was a head coach.

 

Well this season, they had a lot more kids join up at the 6th to 8th grade level, and they needed additional head coaches.

 

And thus, after several seasons as a hot coordinator who kept getting passed over, I finally got a head coaching job

 

Have to say the job interview was pretty rigorous.

 

"You wanna coach a team this year?"

 

"Sure."

 

"Good!  Why don't you coach this team?"

 

"Okay,  I'll do it."

 

Luckily, I kept my cool, answered the questions, said the right things and made it through the process.

 

So as of now, I run my own practices, write and call my own plays, mentor my quarterback, make in-game adjustments, give my own speeches that the kids pretend to listen to...the whole nine yards.

 

It's been a blast so far

[Jimmy]

Do you have a LT?

[Mr. Scot]

Do you have a LT?

 

I have a quarterback, a runningback and four receivers (and/or five defenders, depending on who has the ball)

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If I did have a left tackle, he'd have to stay out of the sight lines,  My sixth grader quarterback would make Drew Brees look like Goliath

[jasonluckydog]

If you need to juice the kids up lmk I have a friend of a friend.

He has apple and orange juice.

[Mr. Scot]

If you need to juice the kids up lmk I have a friend of a friend.

He has apple and orange juice.

 

My quarterback might need some HGH

 

When I say he's about half the size of the rest of the team, I'm not exaggerating much.  I'm not sure if he's reached four feet tall yet.

 

So why is he the quarterback?

 

Because he's got a rocket launcher for an arm, throws a perfect spiral and if I tell him "look off the safety", he knows what I mean

[Anybodyhome]

Wow... took you less time to get a head coaching job than Ron Rivera.

 

Screw the playbook, you better start working on your repertoire of cliche answers for the reporters.

 

"One week at a time"

"It is what it is"

"We play all four quarters"

[Mr. Scot]

Wow... took you less time to get a head coaching job than Ron Rivera.

 

Screw the playbook, you better start working on your repertoire of cliche answers for the reporters.

 

"One week at a time"

"It is what it is"

"We play all four quarters"

 

I plan to use the Belichick approach (i.e. mostly mumble and answer nothing).

 

[Jimmy]

Will you be running Spider 2 Y Banana?

 

[PandaPancake]

No wildcat? Give us the playbook

[TheAmericanDream]

Do you deflate the balls?

[Mr. Scot]

No wildcat? Give us the playbook

 

Prove to me you don't work for Belichick first.

 

 

Do you deflate the balls?

 

No. but that's been a running gag.  Most of the kids know the story.

 

One of our other coaches said to the group, "Tell Tom Brady if these kids can play with fully inflated footballs, so can he"

[Mr. Scot]

Will you be running Spider 2 Y Banana?

 

I don't run a WCO.  If anything, it's what our buddy Boltergeist called it: Mini-Coryell.

 

Typical play call in my system would be something like "Ace Left 62 Jet".

[WilmyWood]

Awesome stuff. I've been coaching my 5 year olds soccer team and its a blast. Not too much strategy at this age, but great to see them out there having fun.

[Squirrel]

4-3 or 3-4?