with Matt Joshi,
St. James Academy (KS), Offensive Coordinator;
2020 & 2021 Kansas 4A State High School Football Champions
Most modern offenses that are predicated on being unpredictable and feature a balanced attack that uses the entire field to spread out defenses, strive to find ideal mismatches that keep opposing defenses on their heels and off-balance. The Air Raid Offense is no exception.
Despite those offensive objectives, today’s advanced systems of defense and all the excellent defensive coaching minds found at all levels, will inevitably implement strategies and utilize sound tactics to nullify your team’s go-to advantages
As Matt Joshi, offensive coordinator for St. James Academy, evolved his Air Raid attack to new levels of championship success, he quickly learned that his offense had the full attention of opposing defensive coaches. Those opposing defenses incorporated a variety of schemes and on-field tactics to take away the Thunder’s best, most-productive plays.
Coach Joshi knew he needed to develop new and innovative ways to get the ball into the hands of his best skill players, while still staying true to the tenets of the Air Raid Offense.
In this instructional coaching video, Coach Joshi ‘opens the vault’ to showcase a treasure trove of offensive tactics you can use to get the ball into the hands of your best playmakers!
Building An Offense For YOUR Team
Coach Joshi provides an overview of his Air Raid offensive system highlighting with examples of how that particular style of offense fits in with St. James Academy’s philosophical dedication to playing, ‘Physical, Fast, Fearless Football’ in all phases of the game.
Coach Joshi takes things deeper with an informative lesson on the benefits of simplifying your overall offensive attack by breaking the objectives down to the ways you attack different defenses. This simplification process allows your offensive players to play more reflexively, and most importantly, FASTER during in-game situations.
Additionally, the simplified approach provides offensive players with immediate answers for how to attack defenses, rather than having a large grab bag full of assorted plays that they need to remember during the stress of live-game situations.
Run Game, Perimeter Screens, Stick/Draw, 4-Verts & More
Explaining that you can’t win if you don’t score points, Coach Joshi reaches deep into his playbook to uncover the concepts he depends upon to get the ball into the hands of his best playmakers.
Utilizing a wide-array of game-film examples, Joshi uncovers the secrets to using concepts within the Air Raid Offense to get his best skill position players the ball in the best possible situations and matchups.
You’ll get an inside look at how Joshi uses Toss Plays (run game), Perimeter Screens, off-tackle counter plays like the ‘GT Counter’ and ‘Counter Bash,’ Stick Routes, Draw Plays, ‘4 Verticals 84,’ extra pass plays such as ‘Y-Cross’ and MOF Gator Attacks (Steve Spurrier-inspired offense) and more all of which serve as a means to get his best playmakers the ball in open space.
As a bonus, you’ll also receive a fun look at a valuable call-sheet tool Coach Joshi calls, ‘Play-Sheet Tic Tac Toe’ which helps reinforce the philosophy of spreading defenses and analyzing the best ways to attack vulnerable areas.
With the secrets uncovered by Coach Joshi in this fully loaded video, newer coaches will learn how to best build an offense from the ground up, while veteran coaches can uncover new ideas and field-tested strategies to keep their current offense fresh and full of surprises!
64 minutes. 2025.
FD-06296C:
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 conducted an extensive study of football offenses that hit all their prerequisite checkmarks for an offensive system that would fit in with their program’s philosophy of playing ‘Physical, Fast, Fearless Football’ and help them reach their goal of winning a state championship, they landed on the Air Raid Offense as their system of choice.
As they installed and implemented the Air Raid Offense, Coach Joshi began to see the enormous dynamic-potential of the system especially when paired with the type of student athlete players they’d have over the next few years. The offensive coordinator quickly realized that Stick Concepts within the Air Raid would play a critical role in fulfilling the goals they set for their offense.
In this must-view instructional football coaching video, Joshi breaks down Stick Concepts as a key component within the Air Raid and how coaches can use them successfully within their offensive attack.
Why Stick Concepts?
Beginning with an overview summary of St. James Academy’s football program philosophy and how the Air Raid specifically helps them to achieve all their offensive goals, Coach Joshi dives deep into the details on WHY Stick Concepts serve as a key component for attaining an attacking, unpredictable offense.
Joshi highlights several eye-popping game and season stats earned from utilizing Stick as a weapon in the Air Raid Offense followed with detailed diagram breakdown that showcase why Stick Concepts play such a critical role in keeping defenses off-balance and guessing.
Stick Vs Man and Zone Coverage
Drilling down deeper into Stick Concepts, Coach Joshi utilizes game film footage with diagrams and coaching points to highlight how to best use Stick tactics versus Man Coverage.
Backed with more in-game footage, Joshi dives deep into an explanation of why Stick Concepts are equally as effective versus zone coverage and also provides valuable information on how this strategy serves as a tool for teaching your quarterbacks how to read a variety of zone coverages.
Coach Joshi provides critical details on utilizing Stick Concepts as an ideal means for getting your running backs involved in the passing game, and sheds light on why defenses often lose track of backs while in pass coverage showing how this can lead to big plays and explosive offensive gains.
Using more game-footage examples, diagrams and coaching points, Joshi provides examples of additional Stick variations you can use based on game situation, personnel and an explanation of why this tactic works against a wide variety of defensive strategies.
This is a must-watch offensive coaching video, not only for users of Air Raid Offense, but also provides excellent food-for-thought information on incorporating Stick Concepts into any type of offensive system.
57 minutes. 2025.
FD-06296D:
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.