Rich Hargitt - Air Raid Offense: Basic Option Routes

Air Raid Offense: Basic Option Routes, by Coach Rich Hargitt, provides an overview of why coaches should allow their athletes to employ backyard routes during a game.

 

These routes facilitate the ability of a team to attack a variety of defensive schemes, as well as increase a team's offensive tempo.

 

The recommended concepts permit the play caller to make relatively simple, easily replicated calls that enhance a team's ability to attack all types of coverages.

 

Not only do the routes, detailed in the video, attack a variety of coverages, they also enable the offense to isolate its best receiver on a single defender, thereby creating multiple options for assaulting the defender's technique.

 

• Stick/dig option 
• Short slot option 
• Deep slot option 
• 2-level slot option