Coaching Youth Flag Football

The book explains the details of a ball-control offense. It is wise to keep your defense off the field in tackle football because the rules are biased in favor of the offense. That is even more true in flag football. The best way to keep your defense off the field is to drive down the field rather than rely on the big play. Virtually all flag offenses rely on the big play. Because of that, virtually all flag defenses are designed to stop the big play. That leaves them open to being eaten alive by a ball-control team. In flag, ball control is a form of the contrarian approach I advocated in Coaching Youth Football and in The Contrarian Edge for Football Offense. Coaching Youth Flag Football covers the league tryout and draft, the first time I have discussed those topics in one of my football coaching books. The book also devotes a number of pages to the wall kick return which was not featured in my previous books. The defense section of Coaching Youth Flag Football spends some time cove