The comeback
2:00 left, down 4, your own 35, two timeouts. A field goal is not enough: build a touchdown drive while preserving time for the final plays.
Play the comeback →CUSTOM FOOTBALL CHALLENGE GENERATOR
BUILD YOUR SITUATION.
Your clock. Your field.
Give a friend the same challenge.
HARBOR FIELD / TACTICAL VIEWDRIVE IN PROGRESS
Scrimmage First downDRIVE DIRECTION →
Take your time. The clock moves with your plays.
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SET THE STAKES
Create a custom football situation
Use the situation builder to practice a particular late-game decision. Set up a touchdown comeback, a hurried drive with no timeouts, or a lead you need to protect. Every custom drive starts on first down, with 10 yards to the marker or the end zone.
Choose your starting conditions
- Time remaining: choose from 30 seconds to 3 minutes. Shorter clocks leave less room for in-bounds catches and pre-snap runoff.
- Score situation: start down 6, down 4, down 3, tied, or up 3. A made field goal is worth 3 and ends the possession, so it will not win every situation.
- Starting position: move from your own 10-yard line to the opponent’s 10. A shorter field can change how much risk you need to take.
- Timeouts: choose zero to three. Timeouts stop a running clock without giving up a down.
Build, play, and share
- Adjust the controls above, or select The comeback, No timeouts, or Protect the lead as a starting preset.
- Press Start drive to apply your settings and create a new seed. The address bar updates with a link to that starting situation.
- Use Copy current challenge link to send the active challenge. If you change the controls again, start the new drive before copying its link.
A challenge link includes the initial clock, score margin, ball position, timeouts, and seed. A friend receives the same starting situation, not your current play history. Matching decisions produce matching outcomes. Sharing a finished result includes the same challenge link so someone else can try your drive.
Your progress is saved on this device. Opening the same challenge again can resume your matching saved drive; use Reset drive to begin again. Starting another custom situation replaces your current custom save, with a confirmation if that drive is still in progress.
For a common daily starting point, play the daily football challenge. Read how to play for downs, scoring, the playbook, and the clock rules used by every custom challenge.
Football situations to practice
No timeouts
0:45 left, down 3, opponent’s 45, no timeouts. A field goal only ties. Decide when a boundary throw is worth more than an in-bounds gain.
Play with no timeouts →Protect the lead
1:15 left, up 3, your own 30, one timeout. Keep possession and manage the running clock. Avoid giving away the ball while trying to close the game.
Practice protecting a lead →