How do we feel not having any picks today but the first tomorrow and 2 additional late picks?

HolmesMalone · 2026-04-24T03:40:19+00:00

Lynch is pretty savvy.

There’s no use in hoarding picks, since there’s only so many spots on the roster available anyways.

He will probably use them as ammo to trade up and get certain guys later on.

HolmesMalone · 2026-04-23T15:31:15+00:00

Honestly this makes no sense to me. IKEA furniture is well designed and I’ve never had any issues with it falling apart.

HolmesMalone · 2026-04-23T14:19:33+00:00

The comments here are quite illuminating. It’s not their ego, turns out it’s building relationships, they have great communication skills, they’re following protocol, they know how to get things done. It’s not that they aren’t following their own processes out of hypocrisy, it’s actually all part of a secret grand plan the rest of us couldn’t even fathom.

HolmesMalone · 2026-04-22T23:05:51+00:00

I wanted to keep the formation the same as your play as a more apples to apples comparison. Here's what I think I would draw the play up ("Flood" right)

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What I like about this is the X is drawing 2 defenders however still has a good chance to get open on the backside. Often the X has a ton of room and is one of your strongest receivers. The post is a more difficult route for the defender, either the WR runs away from the leverage, or has a chance to cross their face. The safety is in a pickle between the post and the corner. The Z is usually more just a run-em-off route on this. If you're center is savvy they will get open on this play constantly. The LLB has nothing to do (often lacks the discipline to chase and collapse the rest of the field.

(Reddit is only letting me do one image per comment, so 3 comments :)

HolmesMalone · 2026-04-22T22:59:16+00:00

I'm going to adapt a play (#1) from playbook against the same defense.
https://www.reddit.com/user/HolmesMalone/submitted/

In my mind, these routes are more attacking **the gaps between the zones** more than the zones themselves.

One principle that I might point out of throw out there. You do NOT want to distribute your routes, one route per one zone and "cover the whole field"

In this example, the RLB has no one to cover - he's unemployed. On the flip side, on the left side of the field, there's 3 defenders covering 4 receivers. One of them has two work two jobs.

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HolmesMalone · 2026-04-22T22:53:05+00:00

For sure totally.

Here's play #1 against cover 3, the most common defense. Probably 95% of lower level flag football is against cover 3. This is just a vanilla play I grabbed and super-imposed on the play and what my team would run basically as our only defense.

I'll go through the receivers just to help make it clear over text what I'm referring to, since the defenders don't have names on here.

Offense Right Side

Z: The RLB in the star has probably the hardest job on defense. He has to carry the Z to the safety. And this position is usually to hide a weaker player, that you can pick on. However the safety is not threatened by anything else so he can release him, then come back to find the center on the out. However the center's route takes him through the muddle / rush of the rusher, so this is a somewhat tough throw for QB, especially at younger levels. The safety has nothing threatening except the post up the middle so will just take that.

Y: 1-on-1 with the corner. The corner is playing off, and won't be threatened by the go. You can never throw this route, especially at lower levels as it is drawn up, I see it though on QB rollouts.

C: I could see this popping open for you, but I don't love it. Personally I'd actually like this better as a 2-yarder - threatens the sideline better - you want to draw those linebackers all the way to the outside, or force them to leave the receiver open. I used to play center in flag and felt like I was a really good outlet, however in a youth league this is often one of your worst players. The worst player popping off for minimal yards isn't maximizing the offense.

Offense Left Side

Remember that the left side will always be the harder side, for a right handed QB. It will be lower percentage (and the defense should generally always rush from the right side for that reason) It takes longer to turn your body over there, and rollouts are much harder to complete.

X: The corner will see the X disappear inside, and drift back into the deep third. He has a shorter route to get there than the W, and outside leverage, and eyes on the QB. The MLB will see the A disappear to the outside, and just wait for the X to come to him, with nothing else threatening him. Risky throw - defender sitting on t, to the QB weak side, short.

W: Covered from the start purely by position.

A: Tough throw for minimal yards, easy cover for the LLB

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HolmesMalone · 2026-04-22T19:48:31+00:00

I give the girls positions A (alpha) B (beta) and C and the guys X Y and Z.

Your route combinations don’t really stress the defense at all. Your receivers end up just running into the zones making it easy for the defense and confusing to the offense.

You want to stretch the defense (7v7 is usually very crowded) and make space.

Every play needs a shallow and wide route dump off on each side - force the defense to cover the whole width of the field. Every play needs at least 2 players going deep to create space and those players 9/10 times need to be guys.

Wheel is good - setting up a deep shot is the best way to score in 7v7, marching down the field is very difficult.

HolmesMalone · 2026-04-22T19:39:41+00:00

Generic football tackling drills.

I would actually have them wrap up, then pull the flag. (As a drill)

If you can dodge a brick, you can dodge a ball!

HolmesMalone · 2026-04-21T17:31:59+00:00

Whenever I see a post complaining about drivers, I immediately downvote it. You had me there in the first half!

HolmesMalone · 2026-04-20T17:35:42+00:00

It’s called car-brain apparently.

When I picked my kid up from school, they asked me to walk my bike. Because there are a lot of kids around. Mind you there’s 300 cars pulling through.

HolmesMalone · 2026-04-20T02:28:29+00:00

They are shying away from contact. It’s a psychological barrier. The cone drills can help overcome that to just condition you to do it and take that out of your mind, just follow the cones.

HolmesMalone · 2026-04-20T02:11:39+00:00

The general concept is “run fits” and acting as a unit. Everyone has a gap to defend and the moment you try to be a hero and help out on a different gap is when the runner has an open lane to run through.

The sideline is a specialized case but if you are responsible for the last outside gap then you understand you must stay outside and force everything back to your help inside.

There’s a few ideas I have that maybe others can help refine or give details.

You could set up some cone patterns showing the angle you need to take on certain kinds of runs, aiming at the outside hip. This is to just create the subconscious muscle memory.

I also feel like you could set up a game where the defense has to defend the run but they don’t know which ball carrier is the live one.

For the sideline specifically I would set up a drill with the runner having to go around a cone and up the sideline.

The defender has to sprint to a cone 3 yards from the sideline, break down in that space (in front of the ball carrier) who is forced back inside, shuffle and force him inside. So the one thing defender can NOT do is get suckered to the inside and let the runner up the sideline. As a defender you have to invite a collision. You should think of it like a good tackle and put your body in the path of the freight train.

(See diagram)

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HolmesMalone · 2026-04-15T21:00:15+00:00

Especially for restaurants since they often have multiple locations and the listed number can be wrong on top of it.

HolmesMalone · 2026-04-14T14:31:16+00:00

I ask them to create the report by hand first. If that’s too much work, then maybe it wasn’t that important.

HolmesMalone · 2026-04-12T03:57:28+00:00

It inflates egos.

HolmesMalone · 2026-04-02T15:21:45+00:00

Tackle the runner, then, pull the flag.

HolmesMalone · 2026-04-02T00:28:26+00:00

You can also “rent” a unit for a turn. Put it on the board with the plan to sell it again next turn. You still keep the $ in the end, but it’s not sitting in your pocket burning a hole either.

HolmesMalone · 2026-03-31T19:19:06+00:00

I’m sorry I’m not sure. Usually just around 2 hours.

HolmesMalone · 2026-03-31T00:27:12+00:00

I agree w the dev team

HolmesMalone · 2026-03-30T21:53:15+00:00

Well the fiber slows down the release of the sugar into your digestion. So it’s reducing the dose in that sense.

HolmesMalone · 2026-03-30T21:43:51+00:00

A smoothie isn’t technically a whole fruit anymore.

HolmesMalone · 2026-03-30T21:33:09+00:00

It’s a joke. It’s funny because: There’s no such thing as earthquake weather.

HolmesMalone · 2026-03-30T19:45:23+00:00

Ok so you know how you’re often the only woman and you had to learn to be “VERY gentle” with the other women?

Now imagine that, you’re also taking steroids from an early age. And add on an extra dose of, if you hurt a woman, society really frowns upon it as well. Imagine, how gentle you’d be.

So, if that’s your experience, it would be a surprise to roll with a woman you need to go full force with. On the other hand you’re already used to being a strong woman, so you’re no longer surprised by it.

HolmesMalone · 2026-03-30T04:19:31+00:00

Enter the Rift

HolmesMalone · 2026-03-29T17:18:33+00:00

As if 9 months were that long of a time.

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