Technique help NG 10 years old when double teamed

I deliberately avoided answering this as I saw you had asked this question over on the other board and I figured they'd tell you exactly what they did - That why are you worried about beating a double team? Being double teamed is a sign of respect and is a great help to your teammates since it means someone else on your team is being left unblocked. In my defense - And that of a few others who hang out around here - I have two players being double teamed every down. We give out helmet awards for our guys who get double teamed. Over at ETeamz they gave you two bits of advice on how to deal with a double team on a NG: 1) Split the double team and 2) Take on the blocker in front of your son, not the one being added. A successful double team requires the two blockers get hip to hip. If the blockers don't do this, you can split the double team. My guys split double teams all the time. They are trained to do it. However, playing NG is a presnap thinking position. Your son should know what he's going to do before the ball is snapped. He will know if he is going to be double teamed, before the snap, and from which direction it will come. How does he know this? Very simple. He checks the guards eyes. If a guard is assigned to double teaming your son, that guard will be looking at your boy. The eyes give it away! Every time! (Unless you play me, of course). If neither guard is looking at your boy, he's one on one with the center. If so, he can now 1) Rip the center's hiking hand 2) Swim to the opposite hand or 3) Drive the center straight back. Your boy has about 3-4 seconds to make up his mind - then do it! Okay! Now let's say he finds a pair of eyes on a guard focused on him. This is the direction from which the double team will come. It is also THE DIRECTION THE PLAY IS GOING (Unless you play me, of course). Again, your son has three choices. They are 1) to split the double team 2) to loop outside the double team or 3) to drive the center straight back. Again, he has 3-4 seconds to decide - Then go! The decision to split the double team or not is very simple. Look at the guard's feet. Are they touching the center's feet? If so, you can't split that unless a woos is playing the guard position. Recall I mentioned that a good double team requires the two blockers be joined at the hip. A guard with his foot on the center's is almost hip to hip already. Yes - your boy can try and split it once. After all, the guard could be a woos, but, if he doesn't make it through the first time - stop trying. He can try and split that double team until the cows come home and it won't happen. But, if there's a 6 inch space between their feet, here's how you split it. Dive head first, arms out in front, between the two players, just like he's diving into a pool (but head up - never head down!). He should imagine the ball is on the ground, one yard behind the gap between the guard and center. This is his aiming point. He wants to stay BELOW the shoulderpads of the guard an center or, if he doesn't, he'll be attacking their maximum blocking area. As he makes contact with the guard and center, who will try and sandwich him between them, he bear crawls on hands and knees - And he's in! Why? Because the guard and center will collide with each other WITH THEIR SHOULDERPADS. Their own pads will keep them from closing the gap. But if they are hip to hip, you can't split that. That brings him back to the choices of 1) Driving the center backwards or 2) Looping around the double team. Remember what DCOhio said in his post? He said there is no such thing as a true double team. There is really only one blocker on your son - the center. The guard is simply preventing your son from moving in the direction of the play. DCOhio said to beat the man in front of you. That's the center. So your son, given that he has spotted the double team (guard's eyes) and that he can't split it (guard and center are foot to foot) would drive the center straight back and the guard will have very little ability to prevent that. As I have said before - And hopefully you're listening - your son can raise holy H*ll if he drives the center straight back into the QB on snap. Ask a DW coach about that! Okay! Last choice! Your boy loops around the double team and leaves the guard and center blocking air and he's also looping in the direction of the play, EVERY TIME (Unless, of course, he's playing me). So he's still in the play and the two double teamers aren't. Now! There is still one possibility remaining in your son's presnap read. He looks and BOTH guards have their eyes on him! Holy Moses! Look out! The WEDGE is coming! If your son sees both guards staring at him he immediately, on snap, dives sideways across BOTH the center's feet. He tucks his hands and elbows to his chest, puts his down (ground side) shoulder on top of the center's foot and rolls towards the center, putting his back up against the center's knees/shins. He now tucks his legs and assumes the fetal position for protection because there are going to be falling bodies everywhere! Your boy just bowled a strike and the pins are going down! The important point here is that he come down on top of the center's feet. This prevents the center from stepping on him. Many wedge teams think that if they run wedge long enough and step on enough defenders, that those defenders will get tired of being stepped on and stop "submarining". If your son lands on top of the center's feet, he won't get stepped on and the other team can wedge until the cows come home and never make a yard. Hope this helps. I've given you the tools. It's up to you on what to do with them.