Running the Power Read in the Air Raid Offense

[@Snsojdineow]

Im a wing t coach converting towards air raid. I find that having the Y cracking the first backer inside, and the running back to make a question mark to the y defender, head up to outside and kick him out making an alley gives us at least 5 yards. Then you have a player that's coming off the jetsweep full speed and the safety has to out leverage him to stop him. Instead of having the running back, trying to get the SS. I find that it forces the sweep guy to slow down waiting for that block to happen. Out of the 2x2 formation. And with the trips formation, my X would push crack the safety, running back has the same block on the corner. These are great plays with any fast player. Just my background, those are my blocking rules and creating alleys is a big part of our running attack.

[@onebackfootball]

Those are great Ideas. We do kinda the same thing when the play is the sweep or pin & pull. We don't crack on these because of the "Read" because generally the front side guy is accounted for with the Pull of the BSG or vacates away from the hole because of the sweep.

[@Snsojdineow]

92 Mesh Group Exactly. Don’t wanna waste a player on offense when the linebacker is blocked twice & the back finds that the receiver didn’t block for him. What we did, we read the playside before the snap. If they wanna load the box, we would run the speed sweep with the crack and alley way. If we have the numbers we fake and run power however, Y would block the SS and RB would still question mark and kick out Y defender and read the end. Most linebackers not fast enough to cover ground that fast anyway, but making that alley gives the sweep guy more grass to work with imo

[@onebackfootball]

@@Snsojdineow If you have some clips of this maybe you can post them in the Squadron Meeting Room (Classroom) and the guys can discuss it further...This is what the 92 Mesh Group Channel is about...growing, sharing, and learning. Thanks for your thoughts..

[@AgentOrange90]

@@onebackfootball Do you have a link for this?

[@onebackfootball]

classroom.google.com. Use the link in the videos to join.