Simple Air Raid Package Plays 

Coaches, do you run any package plays? What are they?

Good stuff. I'm gonna look at implementing this. Thanks for sharing!

Hi coach McKie, I´m a football coach, writer and sports broadcaster in Mexico, I wrote a book about RPO, it called "RPO: La evolución ofensiva" (RPO: The offensive evolution). I want to say your work is inspired me and thanks for sharing your ideas about modern football.

I'm not a player or coach. I'm an author trying to see how well spread offense would fit into my character's playbook. The strategy I envision relates to chess. The rook corresponds to the WR. As in your playbook his job is to go deep. The tight ends correspond to a combination of bishop and knight. They run diagonal. The queen is the tailback and maybe the fullback. She can move anywhere quickly. He who controls the center four squares wins. The easiest way to control the center four squares is to con the opposition out of those squares. A skilled player uses his rooks, queen, and knights for that. It also means surprise. It means calling plays the opposition does not expect. With that in mind, in my novel idea, the previous coach was a three yards and a cloud of dust thinker. He never, ever used passing plays. The opposition knows this and keys accordingly. With this in mind, at the end of every play the opposite side of the field TE and WR leave the field after every play. So does the tailback. The lineman/pawns immediately take their positions almost ready for the new play, but turned to the QB. The WR remaining runs to become the far side WR. Fresh players come in. The fresh TE informs new far end WR using sign language what the play is. The QB uses sign language to inform the line what the play is. Just like in Military close order silent drill, when the soldier hands the Sargent his rifle, the center hands him his helmet. He signs B for Blast, C for Counter, D for Draw, T for Trap, O for Off Tackle, R for reverse, S for Slant, W Sweep, or V for Veer. If the QB holds the Center's helmet to the Center's left, it is a pass play, to the right a running play. Likewise, the play goes to the direction in whose hand the QB returns the helmet with. How many fingers he holds the ball with is the count, sort of. The cadence is by silent count. Left Guard is player one, Right, player two, Left tackle, player three, Right tackle player four. When the designated player points to a defensive player with his left hand, middle finger out, the center hikes the ball. If a defender looks like he might go offside, all players pull their hands down, the designated player for the count raises his and the play begins. Could this scheme actually work?

Have you ever experimented with making your screen pass packages option passes with one side running the 6 and the other side running the screen? I used to send the awayside receivers deep and gave the QB the option of throwing deep if it was an easy 6. We faced mostly man coverage with a free safety and man with robber, and most of the zone coverage was 3-deep out of a 4-2-5 or triple stack defense. When the pass coverage saw one side running 6, the defenders never saw the screen action on the other side and sometimes ran themselves out of the play.

Just wow coach . Great creative yet easy concepts

Thanks for the education

I'll run 2 dropbacks passes, 2 quick Passes, or 1 Dropback and 1 quick. Ex. Spread Rt curl/Flat Rt and smash Lt. I have a cover 3/4 Beater to one side and a cover 2 Beater to one side.

Good stuff, coach. We're a System (Tony Franklin) team, but I'm always looking for more info like this on the spread. Looking for the link to the one-back Power RPO ebook. Can't seem to find it on your site. Thanks!

Good content. If the defense is in that formation, I’m having L block the C & throwing a quick screen to F as he’s moving to the sideline. Assuming L can block well & F has wheels.

I would love if in the future you could make a video about what pass protections did you use in the dropback game, and how do you use the hots, etc. Thanks

Coach do you think you could add Tunnel screen to Y Cross? My thought is throw Tunnel to the Z instead of him running DIG. Not sure if that would give enough time to the Y to get across. Thoughts?

What software do you use to draw your plays up?

What books do you have on the book self

What software do you create your plays on?

Great stuff. So you have trouble with o line getting downfield too soon? How do you remedy that?

Air raid only works in college football not nfl cause of very fast pass rushers

IF my QB1 won't do what I tell him. I REPLACE HIS ASS!!! Any questions?

Air raid offense can be beaten through blitz schemes like anything defense always wins it's almost the same thing as don't coryell and his san Diego circus. We're dealing with nfl with blitz package compared that with college football don't. Look at what happened to s.f gorty miners vs Giants and got beating by defense the niners we're running the west coast offense we're dealing with two different levels of football in college u don't see too often blitzes in nfl u do why do u think Washington State or Texas tech never wins national title

Air raid offense should not be used

What software or program are you using to draw up your plays?