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Coach Bob Whaley - Youth
football coach for 5 seasons, High School Offensive Coach 30 yrs.
Coaching the pass game for youth players of the Pee Wee, Midget, or
older boys takes a lot of patience and a methodical approach to finding
and teaching the various steps to a successful pass game.
Many
times, you may be able to teach a limited pass game to players of
limited ability, and get some success out of it. Especially if you like
to run the football and opposing defenses are loading the “box” with 9
defenders. Later on in this article, I will illustrate a “Bunch” pattern
that requires a Quarterback to be able to throw less than 18 yards and
looks like a run play.
Finding your Quarterbacks on a new squad: The first basic step is to line
up the Quarterback candidates on the goal line and see how far they can
throw. Using the Pee Wee football, they should be able to throw a
minimum of 25 yards. (I have had several boys over the years that have
thrown over 40 yds.)
The second step is to time them. It has been my experience that the
faster a kid is, the better athlete he is. This is not always the case
though. An athlete at your level should run a minimum of a 6.2 sec. 40
yd dash. (I have had some kids run close to a 5.0 flat, and occasionally
better as they get closer to the H.S. freshman age. Your skill people
should be closer to 5.0. I did have a freshman team a few years back
with a lot of inner-city kids that had 5 boys that ran 4.6 sec. 40’s.)
Boy, did we have speed!!!!!!! It is probably best though, to use speed
as a strong influence rather than a limiting factor in choosing your
Quarterbacks.
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