My son (6th grade, extremely muscular and lightning fast) is in one of those NFL flag football leagues and had his first game today and he is the QB. He's never played football before, but loves the crap out of watching it and playing Madden.
He goes out there full of pee and vinegar and proceeds to throw 3 INTs in the first half, one was a pick six.
Then the worst possible thing happened. He drops back and throws a freaking dime like 30 yards to some Tyreek Hill-looking lover of the older lady for a TD. Now he thinks he's freaking Elway, running down the field like he won the lottery. The rest of the game he was waving his arms around like he was Peyton Manning trying to engineer a 30 second TD drive. I mean, he was OK, but he was basically Zach Wilson out there. Trying to check down to a fat kid, either throws it at his feet or fat kid drops it. In his defense, his team (including him) is kinda slow and it was their first game. He was calling the plays on the palm of his hand, basically telling his buddies to "go that way and get open". Not sure what the coach was doing, but I don't care. The other team's QB has one of those arm bands with the plays on it, so gay.
Anyway, he ended up throwing like 4 INTs and they got blown out. The only other TD they got was from the only girl on the team who pick-sixed arm band boy. Of course he doesn't remember the picks, he remembers his 2 deep bombs to Tyreek. Now I have to walk the line of letting him build his confidence and be happy playing football without telling him to shut the freak up about the Tyreek bombs because he threw 4 picks and got blown out. Being confident but not overconfident is hard to teach.
