Wing-Raid Playbook

The Coach

Eric Vaughn

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How did I develop this “system”?

I had played Quarterback in the Under-Center I in High School with a little Gun mixed in and some in college (D1AA) then transferred to a Spread offense at the D2 level that was Zone-Read with some Air-Raid type of passing. I dove head-first into the Air Raid and fell in love when I played over-seas running it in Germany and it was very familiar when playing Arena with the quick passes, and deep crosses trying to create space where there is none. When I started coaching, I really had a grab-bag offense until I learned who Bellevue Wolverines were, THAT is when I learned to love the Wing-T. I jumped into the deep end and took the Wing-T principles, families of plays, and all of the good stuff left the numbering system and moved it into a Pistol alignment. From there, I grew and evolved it some and then heard about this guy named Pat Murphy who was a Wing-T guy but was running it from the Gun. After reaching out to Coach Murphy and getting some materials and discovering what he was doing to win, I knew that the road to Gun was inevitable. Then the RPO made its way onto the scene and that was all she wrote. I never thought about it that much at the time when Coach Murphy would call them “Run-Passes.” It was RPO before they (the football talking heads) had started calling every play-action on television an “RPO.”

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Wing-Raid Install Guide
Eric Vaughn
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