5v5 flag football play
Smash Right
Your bread-and-butter red-zone call: two routes, one defender, easy rules. Tell your players: 'Five and sit, eight and corner — the defender picks who's open.'
How to run it
- 1
WR3: stem to eight and break to the corner — attack the spot inside the pylon and expect the ball over your outside shoulder.
- 2
WR2: hitch at five, snap around, sit still — you're the defender's temptation, not a moving target.
- 3
QB: watch the deep right defender only — she jumps the hitch, corner; she bails deep, hitch. Never guess before her feet tell you.
Who the quarterback reads
- 1. Y
- 2. Z
- 3. C
The corner is first because the read starts at the deep defender — corner if she squats, hitch underneath if she sinks; reading it bottom-up gets the QB double-clutching.
The concepts in this play
- Smash
- A short hitch underneath a deep corner route over the same defender. He can't cover both; the QB throws off whichever one he leaves open.
- Corner
- A route that breaks toward the sideline at depth, aimed at the pylon — it attacks the open grass on the deep outside.
Who should run it
Developing. Teams with a season together, or middle-school age. A couple of reps to lock the spacing in.
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