Whenever you see a trend in football it's not because it's cool. It's because it works. Playing 2 flag football quarterbacks certainly falls in this category. When it comes to flag football, virtually every pass is a quick pass or a scramble drill. Regardless of the rules in your flag football league there will be a rusher to the quarterback who will arrive in less than 4 seconds. More like 2.5 seconds
FirstDown PlayBook recently published an interesting blog about the evolution of the flag football 2 quarterback offense. This offense is not a trick play as some have described it. Instead, it is a scheme. A flag football scheme that FirstDown PlayBook contends will be a staple and coached differently than just to give the quarterback more time to throw.
This is where the 2 quarterback system has come to be pretty common place in the flag football game. FirstDown PlayBook noticed this offense four or five years ago as the NAIA women began playing flag football. In this system FirstDown PlayBook studied that the second quarterback aligned off the line of scrimmage flanked out towards the sideline.
So fast forward to the World Games in Chengdu, China a few weeks ago. FirstDown PlayBook then saw teams using the same 2 quarterback system again. However; when they employed it, the second quarterback actually started on the line of scrimmage. FirstDown Playbook noted that the second quarterback was not necessarily an outlet answer, only used if no one else was open. Instead, it looked like that there were two separate plays called one for each quarterback with specific reads for each quarterback.
They have a point however, here at your Flag Football Source, we see the stand alone value of just having an outlet pass that can buy you more time to push the ball down the field. What about you? Do you mix in a 2 quarterback system with your flag football offense every now and then? When you do, how do you coach it? We would love to hear from you.