Air Raid

[Ilovefridaynights]

Do all think the Air raid can work at the sixman level with limited to the run?

 

[CoachLanc]

Do all think the Air raid can work at the sixman level with limited to the run?

@griffithkpacoach does a pretty good job of it in my opinion

 

[Jones26]

Coach Briles ran it at Bryson.

 

[Leman Saunders]

I think they watched some 6man football and then invented the air raid...

 

[griffithkpacoach]

@griffithkpacoach does a pretty good job of it in my opinion

Thanks Brotha. I am not an expert by any means, but I love the Air Raid and we’ve tried to adapt it as best as we can to sixman. To reiterate what @Leman Saunders said, I mentioned at the @TheSixClinic this summer that the Air Raid really should have been created in sixman and then made its way up to 11man. The whole philosophy of Air Raid is “throw it short, as many times as possible, to guys who can score.” If that ain’t sixman I don’t know what is

 

[Roach]

I think they watched some 6man football and then invented the air raid...

That would be the Run and Shoot offense! I believe his name is Tiger Ellison that created it based on watching kids play "sandlot," football. Then he created what is now known as choice routes or option routes. Mouse Davis really did the best with June Jones when they were at Hawaii. Early 90's Houston had some amazing offenses. And what killed it was the K-Gun offense that the Buffalo Bills used when they got beat in all of those super bowls.

Gary Rickard (RIP) created an offense based on this concept at Granbury Happy Hill! I remember you saying y'all played them and I have watched that game on YouTube.

 

[Coach_Forge]

Not many folks will remember this because it was only for a brief period of time, but from 2016-2019, when New Braunfels Christian Academy was still playing sixman under Coach Wood, he pioneered a true air raid offense down in the south i.e. direct snap to the QB every play, lining up 2 & 3 receivers wide, slinging the ball down field, almost no run game. NBCA's record during that era was stellar (see below). They never lacked for talent. Several kids from that era went to play college ball (Braison Rudd, Mason Lemme, etc.) What cost NBCA games was their overconfidence and some questionable coaching decisions. Nonetheless, I have used and adapted a lot of Coach Wood's concepts into my own spread offense with great success over the years.

2016 (10-2) State Runner-Up (NBCA lost to Waco Live Oak 30-64)
2017 (9-3) Regional finalist (NBCA lost to Bulverde Bracken 56-72)
2018 (10-3) State semi-finalist (NBCA lost to Huntsville Alpha Omega 57-58)
2019 (11-2) State Runner-Up (NBCA lost to Watauga Harvest 52-60)