Recap: Sunday Football - Winnetka 9-25-16

7v7
Teams: Al, House, Tom, Cooper, Zach, Hollister, Chris, Chris?, Kile
 vs. Frank, Mike, Brian, Darius, Tony, Ryan, Davey, Dylan, Scott
Score: 5-5

Touchdown plays:
Team House:
#1: 
#2: Long bomb to Tom?
#3: Long bomb to Hollister with Brian in man coverage and unable to catch up.
#4: 
#5: (Al at Qb, house and cooper left, Davey switched to Team House). Hollister, Chris and Chris? lined up left of center. Kile, Tom and Zach/Davey? to the right of center. defense in a 4-2 alignment. Kile came from far right, across the back middle to catch the TD.

Team Frank:
#1: Jump ball to Mike against Cooper in zone coverage to the left front pylon.
#2: Dylan int-ret-TD
#3: Darius ran an angle route to the front left pylon, with Ryan running a out route long back of the end line (Ryan ended up running his route too shallow). Darius and Ryan both reasonably open, but Darius caught the ball for the TD.
#4: Mike ran a comeback route from slot left, but was not open, as I scrambled, he worked back to my right as I ran left, and he caught the TD.
#5: Mike lined up alone to the right. Chris? played press coverage and Mike broke the press and caught the "back shoulder" (wobbly) throw for TD.

Missed opportunities:
#1 Int: waited for Dylan to turn around on a hitch route, and having already looked that direction, threw to mike under pressure. underneath coverage from House led to his INT.
#2 Int: ran post routes with both Dylan and Scott. Didn't like the coverage against Dylan, so tried to throw away the ball, but my overthrow ended up in a spot where Scott's defender was able to make a play on the ball and intercept it.

#1: 4th and goal: Mike popped open in the back of the end zone on a post route, but I overthrew it thinking I needed more height to allow for possible jump ball. Mike suggested more zip on the ball. 
#2: 4th and goal from the 1 foot line: Rush came in quick and might have been early. Tony, Brian and Scott were running a combo route on the right: Brian and Scott slanting in, with Tony running underneath. But he didn't turn around when I expected him to, leading to a sack, loss of downs.
#3: Darius ran a simple turnaround route in the end zone. Dylan run an out to the front cone, leaving Tony to run a corner route to the back left pylon. But Tony never completed his route, breaking it off near the back middle of the end zone. No rush from the defense, and I waited for Tony to break to the back of the end zone, but he never did. So I tried to fire the ball into darius low and away from his defender. But Chris made a nice play to deflect the ball away.

Strategy:
-Defense: with 7 defenders, we played some 4-2 and 3-3. It was important to mix up the zone looks because 3-3 was so easily picked apart, but provided better deep pass defense against their team speed. In the 4-2, weakness was over the corners and away from the safeties. That weakness allowed team house to move down the field and score their final TD.
-Offense: early on, we moved the ball well by taking what the defense gave us. Some drops by Tony and Darius, but Ryan, Darius, Mike moved the ball with 10-12 yard receptions. After throwing the two INT's, settled down by going back to what was working earlier on (the 10-12 yard comeback/turnaround routes on the outside with the occasional route to stretch the defense). Noticed that by bringing a few guys across the formation, they would pop open as the defense moved vertically with our receivers.
*Example 1: Tony running left to right after receivers on the right cleared out the zone (tony dropped the ball)
*Example 2: Tony running right to left from right slot, and running into a huge hole in the zone for a big gains.
*Example 3: Darius running short drag route and Dylan running the same route deeper from right to left. Darius caught the ball in stride, wide open for a large gain.
*Example 4: Tony and Brian running curl routes into each others' seams. Darius and Dylan to the left, Mike, Ryan Brian to the right. at the snap, I noticed the hole in the middle of the field, Brian's route carried him right into that zone, and though I saw it right away, I hesitated, which caused the defense to flinch ever so slightly, opening up the throwing window for an easy completion to Brian.

Recap: Sunday Football - Winnetka 9-11-16

Teams: Al, Mike, Danny, Sagar, Cooper vs. Frank, Hollister, Darius, Padrig, Brian
All-time defender: Davey
Score: 3-3

Touchdown plays:
Team Al:
#1:
#2: square out from slot for big mike, with Danny outside. Brian outside coverage, Frank, slot coverage. Playing man.
#3: Mike in motion from left to right, man coverage, Danny catches crossing route after Mike crosses.

Team Frank:
#1: Hot Route: Darius saw matchup against Sagar/Al, and made sight adjustment to run a go route. I leaned to the outside and caught the ball in the back corner over Sagar's reach.
#2: all turn around at at the goal line, darius slides outside, catches ball low and away
#3: Darius outside runs slant in, brian runs outside slant, defense in zone coverage, but outside corner (danny) follows Darius across, leaving huge hole for Brian to scamper to end zone

Strategy:
-Defense: Match ups favored playing man-to-man with the occasional zone look to mix it up. Otherwise, the man coverage stymied their offense for most of the day.
-Offense: early we took too many risks throwing down-field. Adjusted by taking what defense was giving. often taking the 10-15 yard completions on the outside, and in the seams/slot. One interception thrown when Brian's called route was a go which we audible out of but he still ran it. Checked down to Padrig, but the ball got tipped and intercepted.

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