Teaching the Air Raid

A Coach's Guide to Installing the Effective High School Air Raid Offense

Teaching the Air Raid
A Coach’s Guide to Installing the Effective High School Air Raid Offense

Second Book in the Effective High School Air Raid Offense Series

Most coaches don’t struggle because they lack plays.
They struggle because they lack a clear plan for teaching the offense.

Teaching the Air Raid is not a playbook. It is an instructional guide designed to help high school coaches install, teach, and sustain the Air Raid offense with clarity, consistency, and purpose.

While Foundations of the Air Raid explains how the offense works, this book focuses on how to teach it—on the practice field, in the meeting room, and over the course of a season.

Drawing on decades of high school and collegiate experience, this book provides a practical framework for offensive installation that prioritizes understanding over volume and mastery over novelty.

Inside this book, you’ll learn:

• How to structure an Air Raid install without overwhelming players

• How to teach quarterbacks to read grass, not defenders

• How to build receiver understanding of space, leverage, and adjustment

• How to organize practices around high-return “magic reps”

• How to troubleshoot common player and staff breakdowns during installation

• How to recognize when the system is working—and resist the urge to change it

Rather than focusing on diagrams or encyclopedic play lists, this book emphasizes:

• Teaching language

• Install sequencing

• Practice structure

• Staff alignment

• Long-term sustainability

Teaching the Air Raid is written for:

• High school offensive coordinators

• Head coaches installing or refining an Air Raid system

• Coaches who value clarity, structure, and efficiency

• Programs seeking sustainable offensive growth, not yearly resets

This book is the natural companion to Foundations of the Air Raid and serves as the second volume in the Effective High School Air Raid Offense Series.

If you want players who understand why the offense works—and a system that improves over time rather than starting over each season—this book provides the blueprint.