Use this quick drill to improve your route running and passing accuracy to score more touchdowns.

Transcript:

Hi everyone, this is Coach Dwight with a great new drill to help your wide receivers and your quarterbacks run those routes and throw to those routes a lot more effectively. Now we all know in youth flag football there's an issue; you know, they're not running their routes correctly, or they're doing a very soft cut, or the quarterback is not throwing on time. So this is going to solve all that. What we've done is we've put out cones for the specific routes, and I've actually put color cones—the orange cones—for when the quarterback should hit that receiver. When is that ball going to hit my chest and hit my hands to get that reception?

Yeah, as you can see, here's my starting point, and of course, I can mix it up so the wide receivers on that side are a little bit further out. But as you can see, my first route, I want a short post. I don't want to go too far because my quarterback's arm is not that strong. Quick post. Another one might be my quick slant, running across—boom, quick slant—right here. What about my out? And then what about my fly pattern? When do I release that? When do I get that ball? Maybe I'll set it ten yards out; we test the arm of the quarterback to see—right here.

So it just maps out where do you want your wide receiver to be, and then obviously, you have your quarterback involved in this drill. They're looking, throwing to those orange cones for each one of the routes, right? It helps me decide where am I going to be shifting, where am I moving, what are my feet doing, how much time do I have, what kind of drop back do I take, right? This just maps it out very clearly with your cones.

The second level of this is adding a defender into it, and then you and the wide receiver just saying, "Okay, we're gonna run that fly pattern, right?" So obviously, we know our key principles as a wide receiver: we want to make strong cuts, we want to move, but this will help you communicate between your quarterback and your wide receiver exactly when they're gonna get that ball thrown to them, and you'll see a major difference. We'll see you in the next video.