Want to understand the Lincoln Riley offense? Start with his coach at Texas Tech, Mike Leach, who was one of the central developers of Air Raid offensive concepts. From the Air Raid comes an awareness of one basic play every Air Raid quarterback needs to be able to process and execute.
Riley Files analyst Kegan Reneau went into the details:
“Lincoln Riley has a ton of his entire offense based off Y cross, which is very Air Raid-y,” Reneau began. “You hear Mike Leach say and you’ll hear Graham Harrell say that any Air Raid guy’s entire offense is basically built off Y cross, which is just a tight end going over, running an over route or a crossing route across the middle of the field. From there, if you look at Oklahoma’s offense since 2015, if a quarterback failed to consistently process it and consistently attack a defense off a play that’s designed with Y cross in it, if they failed to do that, the passing game typically struggled.”
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