Utilizing Mesh Plays from Multiple Formations

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

In keeping with their football-program goal of playing ‘Physical, Fast, Fearless Football’ and building toward winning state championships, St. James Academy’s head coach Tom Radke and offensive coordinator Matt Joshi made the decision early on to implement the Air Raid Offense.

As their team began to improve and evolve, Coach Joshi found that incorporating mesh plays into their offensive attack took their offense to the next level becoming more dynamic, explosive and tougher for opposing defenses to defend.

In this highly valuable instructional coaching video, Joshi unlocks the vault to his offensive playbook and showcases a complete tutorial on how to install and utilize mesh plays within the Air Raid Offense.

Utilizing a combination of statistics, coaching points, game film clips and diagrams, Coach Joshi arms you with everything you’ll need to easily add this potent offensive weapon into your own system.

Benefits of Mesh Plays in the Air Raid Offense
Coach Joshi breaks down the goals of his offense and explains why the Air-Raid Offense, specifically, serves as the best system to achieve their team goals. He then dives deep into the myriad ways that mesh concepts enhance the effectiveness of their offense including overviews on:

• How Mesh plays can be used effectively and efficiently in the same game.
• Why simple adjustments to Mesh concepts can be used to take advantage of defenses and lead to big plays.
• How Mesh plays can be run from multiple formations which stresses defenses with different looks.
• Why Mesh concepts serve as an easy and effective coaching tool for teaching receivers how to consistently run great routes, as well as instructing quarterbacks where to look on throws.

With the foundation in place, Coach Joshi provides a wide array of examples of his favorite Mesh Plays explaining each play and why it’s designed to take advantage of opposing defenses, followed by showing them diagram form and then walking viewers through game-film clip examples of each Mesh Play in action.

Throughout each clip, Coach Joshi offers coaching pointers on proper position techniques used to execute the play, as well as providing in-game situations and easy-to-follow adjustments that will help you incorporate each Mesh Play into your own offensive attack.

This jam-packed video provides an in-depth look at 14 different Mesh Play examples. Coach Joshi also breaks down the specifics on the ‘Trio 80 Mesh,’ ‘Mesh Post,’ ‘Spread 80 Mesh Dagger,’ ‘Trio Mesh vs Man Coverage,’ and ‘Tight Doubles 80-Mesh Rails’.

Regardless of the offense you run, this is a must-watch look at how to successfully teach, install and use Mesh Concepts within your offensive system!

54 minutes, 2025