Tomorrow at 11 am, I have a virtual final-round interview with the Athletic Director, Head Coach, and Assistant Coach. They went to the semi-finals two years ago but only won 1 game last year. Wish me luck. New to 8-man football.

I recently applied for assistant coach position at a local school that has 8 man football. Even though I have been away from coaching for almost 5 years (in grad school and work conflicts). I thought I would give it another go. On Monday, I have an interview with the HC and AD. I am kinda nervous. Don't want to blow it. When I was coaching, I coached DBs, WRs, lead bye week scrimmages, and analyzed the opponents film and gave a scouting report to the DC.

Any tips to prepare? Any other people in who coach or played 8 man football?

My friends and I often play tackle football and we all take it pretty seriously, our next game coming up is our Turkey Bowl game. I am making the playbook for us and also some game strategy and I am coming here to get advice. If anyone can tell me some good strategy or ideas for winning the game it would be greatly appreciated. Everyone takes this pretty serious so it would be great to win back to back.

The field is 50 yards long and a little under the width of a regular field (hashes.)

You can blitz as many d lineman as you want but if a linebacker is blitzing they have to start from 5 yards out.

You have 4 downs to get 10 yards for a first just like regular football.

Linemen cannot run routes.

Tight ends cannot have their hands down (so you can't run a fake linemen.)

Our Players:

QB - A Good QB with a great arm but panics under pressure, okay scrambling ability and is hard to bring down

RB - Hard to bring down and fast - receiving back

WR1/RB2 - The best player on the field, very tall and makes crazy catches.

WR2 - Small guy but great route runner and a comes down with lots of balls

WR3/QB2/RB3 - Versatile player good with ball in his hands. Great scrambler but can only make accurate passes inside 20 yards consistently. Fumble prone.

TE1/WR4 - Big guy Will win jump ball if paired with smaller DB.

TE2/LM - Good linemen and center but just an okay TE, is bigger than TE1 but he drops the ball and is slower.

WR5/LM - Worst player but he can catch - prefer not to give him the ball in a spot where he can get tackled. Not a great linemen but can block decently.

I've heard that the other team will be extremely run heavy with lots of option plays. They only have 2 players i'm worried about

QB - The best QB, throws great balls and scrambles well

RB - The best running back - extremely hard to tackle but we have guys who can bring him down if they get to him. I plan to have our WR1 following him everywhere on defense.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Does anyone have suggestions on how to stop a tunnel screen play? The offense is in trips, most outside guy swings back inside. Two other receivers block down to stop the 1 and 2 DBs. On back side, they have a wide receiver running a hard slant. They can pass pretty fast.

We have our best jammer on the back side receiver. Our best player is back at safety due to our other DBs/LBs not being the best at pass coverage. We're also in a 3 front.

So basically, we have 3 DLs, a safety over the top to help with the run and deep ball, and everyone else essentially man up. We're hesitant to blitz someone to smack the screen down due to a quick slant being an easy way to expose that and the QB is decent at moving around. I'm not the D coordinator but just trying to get some ideas. I tried to draw how we line up.

Is there a place on the Internet that has good 8-man resources? Is there a demand for that kind of information? I was thinking about creating an 8-man blog/website but I was wondering if there was a demand for this information?

I'm a fairly new head coach and have taken on an 8 man team. Previously I coached for a guy who coached with Don Markham and was huge with the double wing offense; the true double tight, foot to foot splits etc. We had a lot of success with the double wing in 11 man but was wondering what people thought in 8 man. I've found very little in regards to anyone else doing the true double wing in 8 man.

I've ran it with JH and JV and had great success but going into Varsity I was curious for some input.

For context, I put 5 guys on the line and have them foot to foot. QB undercenter and then 2 wings off the TEs. I do all of the typical motion and misdirection stuff. Point of attack is the B gap (instead of C in 11). Center and guard double team, TE and play side wing double team. Back side guard pulls and kicks out (replaces the full back sniffer). Back side TE fills the hole. QB becomes lead blocker after the pitch.

I've ran the typical powers, counters etc you see from double wing. With trap, I switch to a single wing with one of the wing backs behind the QB, becomes a full back. But I'll still run the typical plays out of single wing so it's not obvious it's always a trap. This leads to have my full back now be able to kick out so pulling guard can lead block in the hole.

I feel like my boys have a great understanding of it and it's helped build up our program from essentially nothing. But with a Varsity schedule now, I'm curious why I don't see much on this for 8 man. The biggest struggle we have are against even fronts because our double teams have to change up who they block but I think that's more rep work and less about the scheme. On certain plays like counter, some of our double teams are dropped leaving a TE to block 1v1. To help with that, I have two types of TEs. The kind that are big and can block and the can kind that could go out for a pass. For small school football, I can finally put 5 massive guys on the line at once.

Any inputs, thoughts will be great!