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I was at a game this past weekend and the two teams made it into a slug fest. The final score was 6 to 7. That is not what I wanted to talk about though. The team that was behind had a chance to win the game on acouple of opportunities, but they kept runn the worse play to teach a quaterback.

This passing play is called flood pass. Now the basic premise of the play is to have the quaterback roll out to either his right or left and then have him through to the receivers that have rolled with him ot the same side of the field. Now on paper the receivers are on various levels down the field and looks as if this will give the quarterback several options to get rid of the ball. Well the problem lies in the fact that receivers also bring the defense with them when they roll. Besides that the receivers usually do not run the right depth of routes. SO what ends up happening is just a bunch defenders and receivers waiting for the ball. Why…Oh Why? Know when the only passing routes that you work form are the floods and outs to the sideline, think about it, it’s pretty easy to defend that. As for the argument that it helps young quarterbacks, it really doesn’t because unless they have a great fake or some great receivers most likely he will be  picked off or it will be an incompletion. That is not goinig to do anything for a young quarterbacks confidence.

If you are going to have flood pass play why no give the quarterback options, like with a back post or a screen to the other side? Better yet why not develop a passing game with maybe five plays that go with your running formations. Make these plays spread the field and force the defense to defend the whole thing.

If this team would have done this simple adjustment then they might have come out with a W.

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