Football Offenses Explained | Air Raid, Triple Option, West Coast, Single Wing & More! 

As a College Offensive Lineman, I can give that a big “ Amen”. Run blocking is the most fun by far. You establish your dominance over the D-lineman or linebacker in front of you. He doesn’t get to beat on you while you just slow him down. The Secret in Run Blocking is that if you Obtain & Maintain Contact , you Win! Every Fricken Time! Get Contact. Stay Low. Eyes Open. Keep your feet moving. And Bam, if your Run Game is strong; you demoralize the guy in front of you. You can sense their morale going down as the game goes on. Even better is when the play is wide to the other side and you get to block downfield. Full speed hitting a safety as he is breaking down to tackle the ball carrier. Blindside, full speed, lots of impact. He is looking for you the rest of the game! Usually results in a helmet sticker! It’s kinda like great sex!

@@stevenpaul3808 I never played past high school (weird that no college was interested in 6'0" 190 lb linemen) and we ran the Veer. We threw the ball about 5 times a game but every time the QB called a pass play in the huddle you could sense all the O-Line shoulders sag in disappointment.

@@MrJacksjb I can dig it.

Line men aren't supposed to have fun. That's their punishment for being fat and slow. No room for dead weight.

@j carlton I was kidding lol. Yeah some of them are built like Tightends that Dont catch

Semi-pro 😂

@@MrShanester117Better than a couch potato like yourself

@@MrShanester117how far did your career go?

A little known fact about Hal is that he is also one of the originators of incest porn.

My junior year of HS we ran a 2 TE 3RB flexbone. Had two games that year where we had the leave got the ball with 7 minutes left and never gave it back 4 yd runs every time ran the clock out

Simple is better. I coach pop Warner football. Coaches want to use the spread , they don’t have the players or ability to run a efficient offense like that. I wouldn’t use a spread until college unless u have a talented squad like Miami central I’m a power running guy. More blockers the better

Yea you gone get left behind running some wishbone in 2022😂😂🤡

High school freshmen??!! Isn’t that a little bit late to learn offenses?…You must be outside of Texas, Florida or California.

@brittking3990 : A lot of people do not start playing serious football until high school. How else is a kid that never played football supposed to know how offenses work if he never played before high school? Some kids parents do not let them play for a wide variety of reasons. Some kids have terrible coaches before they get to high school that never went over the basics. This video is a great point of reference to make sure all of your freshman football players are all on the same page as far as an understanding of what is going on on the field and why. When I was a freshman playing football it did not matter if you were Bill Belichicks son or if you never saw a football in your life, we were going over the basics. Again, so that way the coach and everyone else knew everyone was on the same page.

Thank you! Good stuff! Keep it going coach!

Thank you!!

@@vIQtorySports I use the air raid offense. When I play flag football.

"The West Coast" began in Ohio while Walsh was the OC for the Bengals.

Story goes a member of the Giants staff called it the West Coast Offense. NFL films did a video on it.

Sounds good! We'll add it to the list!

@@vIQtorySports thanks so much I’m a qb and need to understand everything better

Modern defensive football, in my estimation and I've been a rabid follower since the 1977 season, begins with Minnesota's Floyd Peters and the next were Bud Carson in Cleveland, Monte Kiffen and Jimmy Johnson in Philadelphia. Followed by Bill Belichick. nflfootballjournal.blogspot.com/2018/08/sack-master-coachfloyd-peters.html

Thank you! Appreciate it!

Glad it helped!

Thank you! You as well!

Thank you so much! I'm hoping to make an updated one soon. Appreciate it!

Thanks Caleb!

Thank you!

For sure!

Thank you!

@@vIQtorySports You're welcome. Your videos show me the intellectual side of football. I'm impressed and look forward to more football content. Keep up the great work.

I'll add it to the list! I love the K gun innovation! Thank you for the comment and the insight.

what that the game when jefferies for the oilers got knocked out?

@@vIQtorySports Yes and keep in mind that that Sam Wyche/Boomer Esaison first tried to run the "hurry up all the time" offense in Cincinnati in 1988-1989, but they could never quite get it right. So um, this was at least a decade before the Air Raid. If we are doing history, let's do it right, please. And now, for my own personal wiki on this topic, from memory: The Bills played the Bengals in that year's AFC Championship game. They beat us with it. Marv Levy saw what they were trying to do, and innovated, but it was a struggle. The Bills were terrible in 1989-1990 season, mostly over bickering with each other over trying this new thing: the K-Gun. Hence, the "Bickering Bills". But, the following year the Bills used the K-Gun to destroy the Raiders 51-3 in the 1990-91 AFC Championship Game, but lost the SB to the Giants(wide right). GIants D Coordinator Bill Belechick literally rushed only 2-3 D lineman most of the game, in an effort to stop the K-Gun, and Jim Kelly's ego(he called all the plays, not the OC) kept us from simply running the ball against that, until the late 3rd qtr. People forget that Thurman Thomas ran for multiple 200+ yard games every season out of the K-Gun(people also forget that Thomas was the first true dual threat RB/all-purpose yards leader, long before Marshall Faulk). Everybody remembers the passing, but, most people forget that the K stood for Keith...McKellar. The whole thing was based on the TE, because however the D lined up against McKellar dictated everybody else's routs/choices. The Bills got much better TEs, quickly, but It forced Ds to give Kelly a look, and once they did? Murder. The entire concept of post-snap defense had to be created, and evolve, because of the K-Gun. The vaunted Pittsburgh Steelers D of the late 90s/early 2000s was created to stop it. So was their offense. Bill Cowher's entire team was built from ground up to stop Buffalo, but they failed for 4 straight years. Best part: where are Dan Marino's SB rings? Buried in the gravel and grass of Orchard Park, NY. The K-Gun, and the Defense, meant that Marino only went to 1 SB, years before Marv Levy was coach, and never, ever returned. The Bills beat Marino in the division more than not, and, defeated him all but 1 time in the playoffs. The Kurt Warner St. Louis Rams ran a hybrid of the K-Gun, West Coast, Run and Shoot, and even an early from of RPO, switching off between them: which is how they earned the "greatest show on turf" moniker. Every year the Bills did 20 things right, and 1 thing wrong, but it was that 1 thing that would get exploited badly, and cost them the SB. I have spoken. LOL! EDIT: So yeah, pretty much the same as today!

​@@DeathDealerizationInteresting! Drop some history about defense.

@@bunnyman6321The best way to beat a Run and Shoot team is to have a fast, physical swarming defense that can get to the QB without blitzing. Then the DBs need to be good at man coverage. That will shut down most of the WRs. The superback will struggle too. If you look at University of Houston during the late ‘80s they were putting up 85 and 95 points on teams. They beat SMU 95-21. SMU is still sore about that. Houston only had run and shoot plays and they couldn’t “shut down” the offense. They could have scored over 100 points though. Soon after, UofH was rated #3 in the country and was about to play University of Miami during their prime. Miami had a fast, physical and swarming defense that was bigger and stronger than the UpfH players. Miami won 41-10 and Houston’s rein of run and shoot terror came to an end. They started loosing and soon, due to a scandal, HC John Jenkins got fired. The famous Houston Oilers vs Buffalo Bills game where Houston was up 38-3 at half, (I think that’s the right score), then the Bills came back and one. That’s a pure run and shoot team, the Oilers, vs the K-Gun offense. Those two teams had tremendous battles in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s. If you get a chance, watch that game in full to see how a run and shoot team can lose a game, and how the Kgun offense can come back from a 35 point deficit. That game is truly important for more than just the choke. It’s the matchup of those two styles that makes it a must watch game.

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Damn

Thanks Coach!

The offensive coordinator for Miami was the same guy while he was at Arkansas with Darren McFadden running the Wild Hog offense. The Hogs kind of brought the single wing back into the fold nationally.

Wildcat is designed mostly for power zone and trap running inside. The Single Wing was more for sweeps and counters with speed more than power. The wishbone and all of those option styles required a QB.

Andre Reed crossing routes

Helped havingThurman Thomas behind them

Wtf? Are an ai robot? This sounds like poorly translated Chinese.

Haha let's run it!

Paul Johnson came closest to this when he was OC at Hawaii. Successive years he had a 4000 yard passer followed by a QB who ran for 1000 and passed for 1000.

Thank you! We'll look into doing a special Air Coryell video. Appreciate the kind words!

What years did he play?

Seeing as the Ravens are already running a smash mouth options running first style offense I'd say that suits him best. His greatest strengths are his speed and agility and having him as the second or third option for run plays is a great way of going at it, after which you can start passing the ball with under center drop backs, RPOs and play action. Lamar is a good passer, but this usually stems from teams being to focused on stopping the running game. If they succeed at killing the run Lamar is usually unable to do anything throwing the ball, so anything to pass heavy I would say maybe not. With better recievers he could possibily manage as a normal qb, but since we have not yet seen this from him not so sure.

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@@myco9253 and I appreciate your answer honestly I’m glad someone else sees what I see also😂

@j carlton yes we have that

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There are some single wing teams still around and a strong coaching community around it. We actually do have wing t in the mix! Will have the video soon. Thank you for the kind words and have a great week!

There are a lot of Single Wing coaches in High School. Also, it’s used now and then in the NFL. The “Wildcat” that Miami used and that Tennessee still uses here and there is basically a Single Wing variant.

@@kleptoliapennyfeather6078 But I said "Single Wing," not variants. I'm aware of many "variants" on the Single Wing. But is anyone actually running the 4-back "Single Wing"?

@@timothyhadley5699 at the high school level, absolutely.

Bill Walsh created that offense I remember Jerry Rice would catch a 5 and in and take it 75 yards for a TD. I like it to

That 4 stack formation looks noice. I'm surprised no one runs it for how effective it is.

We have a video on this coming soon!

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Same!

Nor did he invent the spread. 1927, Texas coach did. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spread_offense

I believe it’s the air raid, l believe Lincoln Riley learned it from mike leach back in the day 🤔

@@iceman7213 Nope.

Just a formation, not an offensive philosophy

@@jrw_12 actually it is more then a formation is a down hill running philosophy that melds the shotgun and I formations together.

@@gixxerpsycho no its a formation where a lot of plays build off from. And certain offensive systems use more pistol formations than others. Some offensive systems use pistol formation only (like some college style offense), but in the nfl there isnt really a team that uses a system where the pistol formation ist heavily involved. So its an Formation within a system, but its no system.

@@finn4556 you are incorrect Baltimore use the pistol formations and play schemes 90+ percent of the time. Just people like yourself want to water it down to where the running back aligns only. But forget nub trips with the Qb at 4.5 yards back and rb 3.5 yards behind the QB is a pistol specific formation. Split zone with the wing is a pistol special that air raid coaches now utilize with the H-back. Look up Coach Ault or Coach Klenakis from Nevada who are the originators of the pistol offense. Then look at anything from Greg Roman with the 49ers and Kaep, with the Bills and EJ, and now with the Ravens and Lamar Jackson. Here is another hint…if it wasn’t a system why does Madden on older NCAA have it as a full playbook and system you can run? Don’t let the spread, air raid, run-n-shoot folks fool you that it is only an rb alignment.

@@gixxerpsycho no its a formation on which a lot of plays build off of. But there is NO offensive system in the NFL which utilizes only the Pistol Formation. There are systems where the pistol formation is used kinda only. Like 90% of the time. But that still is a formation in a system that than ist heavily based off of the Pistol Formation. So u name me a fool but urself u used madden as an argument thats dumb. Its very simple a formation is how players align on the field a offensive system is how these alignments are used to get yards.