How defense is approaching Air Raid

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38 minutes ago, Malcolm_FleX48 said:

Haven't watched their QB much, how does he deal with extra rushers? Normally QBs in the Air-Raid are trained to identify pressure and throw to it's direction. That'll take Man-Blitzes off the table. Actually, I wouldn't blitz at all if their QB has any sort of poise in the pocket.

Going to need to handle the flats. I wouldn't say Cov-3 because there are SO MANY darn WRs running shorter routes because the air raid uses the pass as an extension of the run game. You'll need a good LB corps as well as solid nickel in zone to bottle them up.

Nickel Cov 2 Hard Flats all game and in long situations, play quarters.

They do like a lot of rails, scissors, fades, and verts, usually in combination some type of mesh, trails, and shallow crosses.  Cv2 invert and trap, Cathy or palms, 3 buzz, 4 match would all work and disrupt, but I don't think we have the time necessary to implement all of them.