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    Lions take my solitaire league Title

    in The Highlight Reel – Video Gallery

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    The Detroit Lions triumph over Oregon’s Northwest Passage 13 to 9.

    Going into the 4th Qtr the Lions held a slim 6 to 3 lead.  
    The lions had driven deep into Passage territory.  I rolled a run between the left tackle and left guard.

    I had been rolling that play often for the lions and each time it netted them just 2 yds a carry.  So The Lions used a Timeout to change the play to the opposite side of the line.   This meant Barry Sanders would get the ball.  Thus far he had been a non-factor in the game.  The video shows the result…Barry Sanders finds his way into the endzone.

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    How do you create loopers?

    in Strategy and Gameplay

    Posted · Edited by Coach Shawn

    Step one: Decide which figures will be your loopers.

    Step two:  Before adjusting any base try running several on each looper and keep the ones that already naturally turn in the desired direction.

    Step Three: begin fine tuning your base by tweeking it.  You can find lits of videos on proper tweeking technics.

    As many coaches above have mentioned the TTC base is the preferred base as this allows you to make adjustments during a game merely by turning the dial.  
    However, I do have many teams using regular bases for loopers as they are were fast and turned correctly.  They can be adjusted in the game by adjusting the angle you set them or if necessary by brushing the prongs with your finger.

    I also prefer my looper bases to have rounded fronts as this helps them slip passed pesky blockers.

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    Dual Purpose Base

    in Base Tweaking

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    “Now my QB can roll out or stay in the pocket without purchasing another player and my safeties can stay in cover 2 or can sneak down  for run support. All with one base.”

     

    clever!   This is awesome

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    Defense line play

    in Strategy and Gameplay

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    46 minutes ago, rollertaco said:

    Ha!  I actually had a couple of design concept fields laying around.  That one is plain white.  You can draw on it with dryerase/whiteboard markers.  It's cool to design a play or mark ball placement for passing.    I also just grabbed random players and set them up rather than two scrimmage teams... sorry if that makes it confusing!

    -David

    That is a cool idea as well.  
    you could trace your players actual movement and set up schemes accordingly.

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    Defense line play

    in Strategy and Gameplay

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    2 hours ago, rollertaco said:

    Here's a similar concept.  Two against seven.  In this concept the DL scrapes across the face of the G while letting the LT and C to go free. 

    1) The DL scrape redirects the G and opens the gap between C and G;

    2) A backer swoops in to hit the gap and hits the QB;

    3) The DL is a looper and is helped into the backfield by the G, hitting the RB (in this video the DL is tad late but you get the idea) You can also add another LB to fill.

    4) You can add mirror this onto the other side as well and when its working it looks like a magic trick for the other coach.

    This concept can be helped even further by the tendency for most coaches to set their lineman to push either straight or to have the guard doubleteam with their OT on a DT

    Nice.  I like it.  
    Also It’s hardcore that you make your team practice in the snow too!

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    Defense line play

    in Strategy and Gameplay

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    15 hours ago, Nanook said:

    Very impressed with your play ,I like the idea of keeping some players uncovered to clear them out and then coming in behind them.

    Thank you.  I practiced this play beforehand not knowing if the right situation would present itself.

    I had the MLB back far enough that I hoped he wouldn’t notice my intention and far enough back to let his center get out of the way.

    I knew exactly the angle to set the MLB.

    Passing with Dice

    in Passing and Kicking

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    On 2/28/2022 at 8:17 AM, LandofLogic said:

    What I do is I start the play, and when somebody is open, I count the yards between the QB and the receiver. I have a rolling chart of what you need to roll for different yards, (i.e. you need a 3 or higher to complete a 5 yard pass, 1s and 2s are automatic incompletions), and then I roll. If it reaches that number it is complete, if not, it is incomplete. Then the defense is allowed to turn two players towards the defender (not move them, just turn them) and the play resumes.

    It has its flaws, but it's a work in progress.

    Interesting.  While reading this my first thought was that after calculating QB to Receiver distance uou would then measure distance between defender and receiver snd then use both measurements to get the final dice roll. 
    you could even incorporate defenders position relative to the incoming pass, is he between the qb and receiver or is he behind the receiver?

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    Old school pass

    in Passing and Kicking

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    TTQB has much greater range.  Although I discovered that you can increase the pass distance of the old QB by sliding the football split over the edge of the QB’s bucket rather than placing the ball down in the bucket.

    This increased range to about 70 yards on a Tudor Ultimate field.  

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    Defense line play

    in Strategy and Gameplay

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    6 hours ago, NO Dave said:

    I have seen and use a few easy ideas for this - 

    1. I have my best rushing DE play slightly off the LOS, and anticipate the opposing blocker vacating the space so my blitzer can quickly move into the open gap. 

    2. On a 3rd and long passing play, I have been know to turn the base around on my Nose Tackle during play setup. (I play almost exclusively a base 3-4). It's led to a few "How did he get out there?" questions. I'll also keep the MLB on a spin to make sure I'm not completely vulnerable in the middle of the field. 

    Here is a blitz I did several years ago in our league championship.
    It was the last play of the first half and my opponent was in scoring range.   


    I did not think he would risk a run.

     I left his center uncovered so he would clear out.  I had my MLB aimed to blitz through this gap.

    it worked perfectly and I got the sack!

    You can see this video at:

     

    skip to 6:21.

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    Football for your ball marker

    in Passing and Kicking

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    42 minutes ago, Paul Kian said:

    That's awesome, I was planning on trying something similar to these beads from Michael's for my kick returns, but the Joanne's buttons lie flat.

    The beads might work better for those dangling ones on a stick though (I forget the name).

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    Lol, I have those also but I stack 3 on a dowel for each team and use it to track timeouts left per team.

    just remove one when a timeout is used.  (In my solitaire league, the SSEFL, timouts can be used to reroll a play selection.  Or It can be used to change the rolled play to the opposite side direction).  
    This is useful as I will run a few plays then do other things and hours, sometimes days, later come back to do a few more plays.  It is sometimes hard to remember timeouts used.

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