Air Raid Offense: Everyday Drills for Razor Sharp Offensive Execution

with Matt Joshi,
St. James Academy (KS), Offensive Coordinator;
2020 & 2021 Kansas 4A State High School Football Champions

When St. James Academy head coach, Tom Radke and offensive coordinator, Matt Joshi decided upon the Air Raid Offense as their offensive system of choice, a style of play that would fit their program’s philosophy to play ‘Physical, Fast, Fearless Football’, the teaching and installation process was only the first step in the overall process.

Regardless the type of offense you run; it’s not just the offensive coordinator’s play calls that impact your chances of winning on game day. More importantly, the biggest factor in developing an explosive offense, ultimately comes down to how well your players execute their assignments on a snap-by-snap basis. One missed block, an avoidable penalty or a poorly run route by any of your 11 offensive players can cause a dominating drive to stall out, killing your offense’s momentum in the process.

In this highly valuable instructional coaching video, Coach Joshi serves up an all-you-can-eat buffet of the best drills he uses each day to emphasize proper technique and reinforce the in-game goals for attacking defenses that are built into his version of the Air Raid Offense.

Maximizing Your Daily Practices
Coach Joshi provides an overview of the Thunder’s Air Raid Offense, including why they selected it, how it fits in with the type of athletes in their program and their philosophical approach to attacking opposing defenses.

Diving deeper into their weekly offensive philosophy, Joshi sheds light on how they prepare for an upcoming opponent and shares an in-depth look at both their game-week schedule and an up-close look at a typical in-season practice plan.

These examples set the stage perfectly for Coach Joshi to dive into specific segments on why he’s chosen Air-Raid Offense-based drills over other more generalized, position-specific types of skill-development offensive drills … diving deep into the benefits of what he calls, ‘the magic of the rep.’

Drills, Drills & More Drills!
With the table set, Coach Joshi serves viewers a full-course, ‘visual meal’ of Air Raid Offense Drills. Featuring a highly effective combination of practice-film footage, detailed coaching points-of-emphasis and game-film examples showing how the work done in each drill translates into better player technique and more-precise execution on game days.

Coach Joshi highlights a variety of his favorite drills, including the ‘Settle-and-Noose Drill,’ the ‘Vertical-Routes Drills,’ the ‘Back-Shoulder Drill,’ the ‘Flip-The-Head Drill,’ the ‘Willie Mays Drill,’ ‘One-Hand-Catching Drill,’ the ‘Fade-Variation Drill,’ the ‘Pat-N-Go Drill,’ the ‘Routes-On-Air Drill’ and more.

This is your chance to see how specific practice drills work to both improve the overall fundamental skills of your players, while honing the skills that pay particular dividends in executing the Air Raid Offense.

Great for coaches at all levels of football, this is a must-watch video for coaches who utilize the Air Raid Offense! Even those coaches who use another offensive system will benefit by watching the reasoning, the coaching points and overall concepts behind the drills that Coach Joshi chooses to utilize daily!

65 minutes. 2025.