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OrangeAfroMan

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8-man Flag football by school
« on: March 13, 2025, 12:49:35 AM »
I did something similar to this in the past, asking for your iron-man football teams of each school.

But this flag football format is sort of interesting.
QB, 3 OL/DL, and 4 skill guys.  Everyone is eligible to receive a pass, but I'd probably not take that into account.
So I guess I'm asking what's a program's best team comprised of:
QB, RB, 3 WR/TE, 3 OL, 3 DL, LB, 2 CB, 2 S

16 total guys, historically

Florida:
Tebow, Emmitt, Harvin, Ike & Reidel.....Pouncey twins + Lomas Brown.
Defense - Youngblood and Alex Brown at DE, with Gerard Warren at DT.  LB is Jevon Kearse.  CBs are Lito Sheppard and Keiwan Ratliff.  Safeties are Louis Oliver and Reggie Nelson.

Q - Tebow
B - Emmitt
X - Ike
Y - Harvin
Z - Reidel Anthony
OL - Pouncey, Pouncey, Lomas Brown
DL - Youngblood, Brown, Warren
LB - Kearse
CB - Sheppard & Ratliff
S - Oliver, Nelson
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For a random program that doesn't have a lot of support here, let's do LSU.
Q - Burrow
B - Kevin Faulk
X - Chase
Y - Nabors
Z - Josh Reed
OL - Faneca, Wilkerson, Mawae
DL - Gabe Northern, Lavalais, Dorsey
LB - Michael Brooks
CB - Casanova, Peterson
S - Jamal Adams, Mathieu

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Re: 8-man Flag football by school
« Reply #1 on: March 13, 2025, 12:55:46 AM »
If you wanted to make it more fun, you could try to pick the fastest and/or guys who could juke you out of your shoes.
So I might take a Fred Taylor or Jeff Demps at RB.  I chose Kearse at LB because he was a long, fast freak, perfect for LB in flag football.  
I may want to remove my big, fat DT and put in someone quicker or more slippery, like a Brad Culpepper or maybe even a Wilbur Marshall on the d-line.
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Re: 8-man Flag football by school
« Reply #2 on: March 13, 2025, 09:29:01 AM »
QB, 3 OL, and 4 skill guys.  Everyone is eligible to receive a pass

Zac Taylor, Irving Fryer, Johnny Rogers, Roger Craig, Ahman Green

Dave Rimmington, Dean Stienkuhler, Will Shields
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Re: 8-man Flag football by school
« Reply #3 on: March 13, 2025, 12:09:54 PM »
This is a lot of work, but for Wisconsin's offense:
QB - Wilson
RB - White
Other RB - Gordon (arguably Fletcher) (these are not Wisconsin's two best backs, but I think they are the two that would be best in a flag football format)
WR - Evans
WR - Chambers (I would think about Abbredaris or Gilreath for their speed, but for the Wisconsin team I think you want guys you can get up and catch the ball over others)
OL - Thomas
OL - Havenstein (Panos would be my backup)
OL/TE - Travis Beckum


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Re: 8-man Flag football by school
« Reply #4 on: March 13, 2025, 12:19:35 PM »
QB - Kirk Cousins.

My understanding is that the QB can't run, so I'll take the best passer.

RB - LeVeon Bell.

Obvious.  His pass catching ability in this format makes him the no brainer pick.

WR - Plexico Burress, Charles Rogers, and Courtney Hawkins

Burress and Rogers are obvious.  Hawkins probably isn't the 3rd best.  Andre Rison, Derrick Mason, Mushin Muhammad, plus 3 straight Big Ten WR of the Year in the mid 2010s.  But, with Burress and Rogers taking the top off, and Bell's versatility, I'll take the elite slot guy

OL - Flozell Adams, Tyler Conklin, and Tony Mandarich

First two again are obvious.  Mandarich probably is as well if we are going by college production, and...eh..."training regimens"
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Re: 8-man Flag football by school
« Reply #5 on: March 13, 2025, 12:28:52 PM »
QBs can run.
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Re: 8-man Flag football by school
« Reply #6 on: March 13, 2025, 12:30:50 PM »
Yeah, tall WRs are a huge plus.  With this age group, you don't have the best route-running and we have a 6'6" kid who comes down with balls no one else can get to.  

Too bad he's not staying eligible.
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Re: 8-man Flag football by school
« Reply #7 on: March 13, 2025, 12:34:49 PM »
Quote from: OrangeAfroMan on March 13, 2025, 12:28:52 PM
QBs can run.
NFL Flag rules, which is what I believe the Olympics are using in 2028, do not allow QB runs.  When my son played flag, QB could only run once per possession
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Re: 8-man Flag football by school
« Reply #8 on: March 13, 2025, 12:37:53 PM »
Still Wilson for Wisconsin at QB, but no running might open the door for some other guys to at least compete.
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Re: 8-man Flag football by school
« Reply #9 on: March 13, 2025, 12:37:58 PM »
QB: Drew Brees

I mean that's obvious. 

RB: Kory Sheets

This one is hard. Need someone with speed and pass-catching ability, so obviously Alstott is out. And I don't know enough about the old days (Leroy Keyes). So I'm going to go with Sheets here. 

WR: Rondale Moore, Dorien Bryant, Vinny Sutherland

Going for speed / shiftiness here. Sutherland is probably the most controversial here and the one I'd most quickly swap out. But what attributes I'd want to replace him with is difficult. If a TE, it's Dustin Keller--big matchup nightmare as he's too big for a DB to cover and too athletic for the LB. If a different WR probably David Bell. Best mix of pure WR skills we've had in a long time. But I think for flag football, Vinny is probably the pick ahead of either. 

OL: Matt Light, Dennis Kelly, and Chukki Okobi

Difficult. Wanted athleticism at the tackle positions, and both Light and Kelly were great tackles for Purdue. Tough to pick a center, but with with Chukki b/c he was the center during the early Tiller era with Drew Brees. 
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Re: 8-man Flag football by school
« Reply #10 on: March 13, 2025, 02:50:45 PM »
Wisconsin Defense:
D-Line: JJ Watt, Erasmus James, O'Brien Schofield (No DTs)
LB: I want to say Borland or TJ Watt, but for this format: DeAndre Levy. Dude was fast.
Safeties: Leonhard and Aaron Henry.
CBs: Troy Vincent and Jamar Fletcher. HM to Jack Ikegwuono, who broke up passes and was able to evade the law (while in college). Until he wasn't. I think his prison term is over now, but that was an unfortunate way to go out.
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Re: 8-man Flag football by school
« Reply #11 on: March 13, 2025, 03:00:54 PM »
Quote from: SFBadger96 on March 13, 2025, 02:50:45 PM
Wisconsin Defense:
D-Line: JJ Watt, Erasmus James, O'Brien Schofield (No DTs)
LB: I want to say Borland or TJ Watt, but for this format: DeAndre Levy. Dude was fast.
Safeties: Leonhard and Aaron Henry.
CBs: Troy Vincent and Jamar Fletcher. HM to Jack Ikegwuono, who broke up passes and was able to evade the law (while in college). Until he wasn't. I think his prison term is over now, but that was an unfortunate way to go out.
How'd he get out?
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Re: 8-man Flag football by school
« Reply #12 on: March 13, 2025, 03:07:45 PM »
I'd tend to lean toward Antaaj Hawthorne for DT.

I like Ramczyk as an OL. Also either Biadacz or Raymer at center.

JT23 HAS to be on this team.

If we're gonna go back in time you gotta look at guys like Mike Webster, Paul Gruber, Krumrie, Al Toon, Nate Odomes, Dennis Lick, etc.
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Re: 8-man Flag football by school
« Reply #13 on: March 13, 2025, 03:38:45 PM »
Quote from: 847badgerfan on March 13, 2025, 03:07:45 PM
I'd tend to lean toward Antaaj Hawthorne for DT.

I like Ramczyk as an OL. Also either Biadacz or Raymer at center.

JT23 HAS to be on this team.

If we're gonna go back in time you gotta look at guys like Mike Webster, Paul Gruber, Krumrie, Al Toon, Nate Odomes, Dennis Lick, etc.
Yeah, I was thinking we don't recally need a center and we definitely don't need guards for this format.

JT23 is the Badgers best all-time back (IMO), but I don't know if he'd be the best in this format, including as a pass catcher. What say you? Fletcher,  White, and Gordon had long careers in the NFL as West Coast backs. But no one should be upset to have Taylor on their team.

I thought about Toon. I think the problem with all these things is that the players now are more athletic (bigger, faster, stronger) than the players back then were, so it's hard to choose a guy like Webster or Krumrie.
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