Air Raid

The Top Ten Changes in Mesh is a comprehensive course designed to enhance your understanding and execution of one of football's most effective offensive concepts – The Mesh. In this course, you will dive deep into the intricacies of the mesh passing play, exploring its various components, techniques, and strategies. Whether you're a coach, player, or football enthusiast looking to gain a competitive edge, this course is tailored to help you develop a comprehensive understanding of the mesh passing play and take your team's offensive game to new heights. We go in and cover 10 ways to change up your Mesh game while still remaining extremely simple for your offensive players.

Mississippi State did not disappoint in 2022 and it was another great example of the Air Raid Offense ran in its purest forms. Mississippi State features the many concepts that have made Mike Leach’s Offenses so fun for all these years including Mesh, Y-Cross, Tunnel, and Midzone. Inside this course we discuss how these concepts can be altered by formations, shifts, and motions along with many tags that can alter the schemes. All this can be extremely simple and easy for an offense to implement if you can properly teach them in a clean format. We discuss all of these ideas along with using a plethora of resources to help you fully understand the schemes and concepts:

Rules & Responsibilities laid out for each individual player

In-Depth Film Breakdown of in game examples

Playbook Sheets for you to review and get the full picture of the scheme

All-22 allowing you to study the concept for yourself

Downloadable Playbook for you to print out and go over

When the Mike Leach Air Raid Offense is clicking it is simply a thing of beauty and in his 2nd year at Starkville the Bulldogs made tons of strides in the offense. Inside this course we go over several of the main components that make this offense so effective. Along with the base offense we take a deep look into their Redzone packages and how it adjust their schemes along with how they protect their base schemes with restraints. One area we spent a decent amount of time in discussing is how the Offense faced off against Drop 8 coverages that is a very common answer for defenses to try and stop the bleeding. Inside this course you will get a great idea of how Leach runs the offense including adjustments that the offense utilizes to attack any and all coverages.

The Shovel Draw has been one of the best kept secret weapons of the Air Raid Offense and in this exclusive course we will breakdown every element of the scheme and what makes it so very effective. Inside this course we look at how Mike Leach used the Shovel Draw against multiple fronts at both Mississippi State & Washington State! We detail different aspects of running this concept to perfection such as running it against a pressure or dropping defensive end as well as utilizing it in the Redzone. Complete w/ film examples and playbook sheets, this course will give you everything you need to master one of the best kept secrets of the Air Raid.

The Air Raid Offense is all about capitalizing space, attacking green grass and forcing a defense to cover the entire field. Well what happens when that space gets shortened? When the Vertical aspect of the game becomes shorter and shorter as you close in on the endzone? The Air Raid still has a ton of answers built into the system. Whether that be the bread n’ butter concepts such as Mesh & Y-Corner or the adaption of bringing in a deadly swing-shallow concept that isolates the Boundary Will! Along with some great passing concepts there are also several answers within the Air Raid Rushing game that can be a huge weapon for your Redzone Offense!

Our goal is to teach you these concepts with tools such as:

• A detailed account of Rules & Responsibilities

• A walk through of an In-Game Example of the Concept

• Taking you through several different things you could see when running the concept

• Discussing the potential pit-falls or hiccups and how to avoid them, helping you troubleshoot issues BEFORE you deal with them on gameday

• Providing All-22 for you to study the concept for yourself as well

• Giving you a downloadable Playbook sheet for you to print out and use as a guide

Every Offensive Coordinator is looking for ways to create easy and simple completions for their Quarterback. No one is better at doing so than Mike Leach inside his Air Raid Offense. He understands that even a short completion for 4-5 yards is as valuable as a run for 4-5 yards if not more because now you have the ball in the play-makers hands out in space with an opportunity to break for an explosive gain. This is a simple concept that if you learn how to install it properly can be a huge weapon in your offense. Inside this course you will learn how to incorporate it with FIB (Formation Into Boundary), execute it in goalline situations, make adjustments, and most importantly teach a simple yet extremely effective read for your QB!

We have been studying the Mike Leach offense for decades going all the way back to his days as the Head Coach at Texas Tech. We are excited to present this 2022 Mini-Study to all of the Air Raid Enthusiasts out there. This study will cover some of the base principles of the Air Raid as well as some counters to the Air Raid Bread n’ Butter. It will also show how he used motions to create a leverage advantage against a number of different defensive structures! Take a look inside and see what the Mississippi State Offense brought to the table in 2022!