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Thanks for the replies fellas!

Someone asked if he wants to play...

He's already playing madden...

Stratomatic is not an easy deal.. ill.have to get it... I think it's a great game... I never could beat the older kids at it in school... and my age group wanted to play madden(1993ish).

I really think watching games intensely will help as well... figuring out coverages and reads and then asking for input.

The books mentioned above I have two of them on the order list from amazon...

The xs and os was another great idea...

I will see about peewee football for his fifth grade summer... I will be putting him on the local ruffian team and not the spoiled rich kid team in the nicer part of town.


Thanks again guys.

I appreciate all your input... I need to take him to his first nfl game...

I live in TN and I don't want him to be a titans fan or falcons fan.(losers)

Guess I'll have to finally take a trip up to Mass... I really hope the patriots improve drastically in the next few years!

Maybe go meet Bill B in chapel hill on the way home. He's still a football genius.
Tennessee Volunteers baby!
 
Thanks for the replies fellas!

Someone asked if he wants to play...

He's already playing madden...

Stratomatic is not an easy deal.. ill.have to get it... I think it's a great game... I never could beat the older kids at it in school... and my age group wanted to play madden(1993ish).

I really think watching games intensely will help as well... figuring out coverages and reads and then asking for input.

The books mentioned above I have two of them on the order list from amazon...

The xs and os was another great idea...

I will see about peewee football for his fifth grade summer... I will be putting him on the local ruffian team and not the spoiled rich kid team in the nicer part of town.


Thanks again guys.

I appreciate all your input... I need to take him to his first nfl game...

I live in TN and I don't want him to be a titans fan or falcons fan.(losers)

Guess I'll have to finally take a trip up to Mass... I really hope the patriots improve drastically in the next few years!

Maybe go meet Bill B in chapel hill on the way home. He's still a football genius.
Throw him in the hardest difficulties

Without "real-time" adjustments (hot routes, scrimmage change of plays/assignments ) you get curbstomped, unless you play cheesy (hot route your acc 99 speed 99 player on go in every play, at least once the cpu will go for stupid zone call and its a td.

If you are with him, making him (or yourself explaining) say out loud the thought process for any decision is the best way to make this an actual learning experience

Ill say it again, NCAA 2025 is an actual banger of a game (and im not into college ball at all)
 
I'd look long and hard at this before forking over money on that. No better way to lose a kid before he even starts than to enroll him in a QB class where he might be in over his head. My experience in those type of things would have him up against kids who've been groomed by Dad to be a QB since they could walk.
Of course research each QB camp and do your homework.

One link is for a 2 day QB/WR camp. Seems unlikely that would break the bank.

Sure, the possibility of a bad experience awaits the same as positive aspects too. I would want to see what's out there and where other kids are in their development. I would hope to network with others and gain information on what they have done. If its local, maybe your kid and another kid nearby become pals and begin working out together.

More often than not you get what you pay for.
 
He is a vols fan... which is rough in a way. We aren't jets status... but cant seem to find the way to win a big game.
We were in a similar place with our oldest son 30+ years ago. He was much bigger than kids his age and too big for Pop Warner so he would have had to play against much older kids. We passed on that idea and he first started playing organized games in HS. It's hard to tell if it was the best move but I'd do it again. He did well but didn't want to play in college.

We did send him to the Mike Andrews baseball camp when he was 10. He looked like a different kid when he came out. So much so that a stranger made a comment at a batting cage (my son loved going there) about how great his swing was. I'd recommend doing a camp for football as well.

As for who to root for, I'd encourage you guys to stick with TN and be a part of the community. And wear those colors proudly. I didn't do that with our oldest and he ended up wearing Chicago Bulls stuff instead of Celtics gear. Ugh.

One of our nephews lives in Ohio but owns a summer place in TN on Norris Lake. I haven't been there yet but everyone says it's beautiful.

And one last thing. Good luck.
 
Find a camp he can go to. With his size and age, I am sure a coach will want to peg him as a lineman. Not to sound so old but when teams were developed in the my old hs days, that's how they decided who played where, regardless of ability. Big guys that could throw, catch, read a d or all of the above, ended up playing some line position they weren't into. Then again we did the ironman thing so went both ways but the popular kids played the popular positions, regardless how good or bad they were. If they were part of the 'in crowd', they would end up being a qb or something like that. Made me sick and I will forever hate my MA HS HC and I will go ahead and say his evil ****head name, Dana Almeida from Fairhaven. Dude got caught supporting hazing (like kids held down and had jiz thrown on them by the so called popular kids and it got overlooked of course. Last thing I will say about that ****bag is that he is considered a godaamn hero in the town and is immortalized and far from deserves is. My message, minus all my hate for him is, don't let the coaches tell your boy where to play right off the bat. It's not fair to him nor his teammates if hes worth his salt.

Side note: when I left that **** town of Fairhaven, I quit my JV year so I didn't have to play tackling dummy for the idiot upperclassmen since I was a soph and I was moving to FL anyway right....assbag coach says repeatedly, well you have to do our weight program for next year, and I say "Why? I won't be on your ****ty team...."...So i get to FL. Get some real coaches and make first team all conference as a C grading out 98% multiple weeks. Recruited by multiple small NAIA schools offering more or less a half ride scholarship. This goes to show you that with the right coaches, players will work hard for them. So long as they don't start Nate the lousy QB that's the popular kid and do the right thing for the team instead. I would watch your coach like a hawk for any sort of favoritism due to whatever....the coach gets free seafood and roof work from Nate's ****ty family so he's going to run the ****ty wishbone into the ground because he sucks. I hope your kid kills it and you don't have to deal with ANY of that. And sorry for the bitter read. I may post some of the hazing drama since its local to the area to show the bs that goes on up there all while its more or less ignored.
 
My youngest had the opposite problem as he was on the light side in his preteens but super fast. Pop Warner had a cut off of 74 pounds for light weight and75 pounds for "heavyweight". My kid was 74 pounds and didn't want to play with the younger kids where he would dominate but with kids his own age. We came back from weigh in and I found out he had rolls of quarters in his pocket to weigh more and play with the heavyweights. I held my breath whenever he played but he did alright. Helps when you can outrun most people.
 
Another idea is to reach out to QBs online and ask if they could share any advice for a young guy.

Hit up 20 guys and maybe 1 or 2 respond back with something that youve not considered.
 
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