with Matt Joshi,
St. James Academy (KS), Offensive Coordinator;
2020 & 2021 Kansas 4A State High School Football Champions
In keeping with their football-program goal of playing ‘Physical, Fast, Fearless Football’ and building toward winning state championships, St. James Academy’s head coach Tom Radke and offensive coordinator Matt Joshi made the decision early on to implement the Air Raid Offense.
As their team began to improve and evolve, Coach Joshi found that incorporating mesh plays into their offensive attack took their offense to the next level becoming more dynamic, explosive and tougher for opposing defenses to defend.
In this highly valuable instructional coaching video, Joshi unlocks the vault to his offensive playbook and showcases a complete tutorial on how to install and utilize mesh plays within the Air Raid Offense.
Utilizing a combination of statistics, coaching points, game film clips and diagrams, Coach Joshi arms you with everything you’ll need to easily add this potent offensive weapon into your own system.
Benefits of Mesh Plays in the Air Raid Offense
Coach Joshi breaks down the goals of his offense and explains why the Air-Raid Offense, specifically, serves as the best system to achieve their team goals. He then dives deep into the myriad ways that mesh concepts enhance the effectiveness of their offense including overviews on:
- How Mesh plays can be used effectively and efficiently in the same game.
- Why simple adjustments to Mesh concepts can be used to take advantage of defenses and lead to big plays.
- How Mesh plays can be run from multiple formations which stresses defenses with different looks.
- Why Mesh concepts serve as an easy and effective coaching tool for teaching receivers how to consistently run great routes, as well as instructing quarterbacks where to look on throws.
With the foundation in place, Coach Joshi provides a wide array of examples of his favorite Mesh Plays explaining each play and why it’s designed to take advantage of opposing defenses, followed by showing them diagram form and then walking viewers through game-film clip examples of each Mesh Play in action.
Throughout each clip, Coach Joshi offers coaching pointers on proper position techniques used to execute the play, as well as providing in-game situations and easy-to-follow adjustments that will help you incorporate each Mesh Play into your own offensive attack.
This jam-packed video provides an in-depth look at 14 different Mesh Play examples. Coach Joshi also breaks down the specifics on the ‘Trio 80 Mesh,’ ‘Mesh Post,’ ‘Spread 80 Mesh Dagger,’ ‘Trio Mesh vs Man Coverage,’ and ‘Tight Doubles 80-Mesh Rails’.
Regardless of the offense you run, this is a must-watch look at how to successfully teach, install and use Mesh Concepts within your offensive system!
54 minutes, 2025
FD-06296F:
with Matt Joshi,
St. James Academy (KS), Offensive Coordinator;
2020 & 2021 Kansas 4A State High School Football Champions
When Matt Joshi joined Tom Radke’s coaching staff as offensive coordinator at St. James Academy in Lenexa, KS, the coaches shared their visions for building a championship-level offense. As they developed the key principles for winning games consistently from year to year, they would build the lynchpins needed for having a dynamic, balanced offensive attack that kept opposing defenses on their heels through an unpredictable system of play calling that catered to their offensive talent and matchup advantages. This vision led them to install the Air-Raid Offense.
In this jam-packed coaching video, Coach Joshi outlines the best practices for building a championship winning offense and the lessons learned on utilizing the advantages built into the Air Raid Offense on their journey to winning a state title.
Filled with real-world coaching examples and an inside look at the step-by-step process they used to develop an offensive identity and how they coach the players to maximize their talent. You will learn the keys for executing successful, explosive drives in a variety of situations.
Building a Winning Offense
Coach Joshi pulls back the curtain on his process for installing and building a tough-to-defend and difficult to scout offense including asking the key questions you need to ask when designing an offense that fits your team’s identity and the personnel you possess - on a year-in and year-out basis.
Putting an emphasis on establishing your team goals first, Joshi explains the plan of attack and all the decisions you need to make to design an offense that gives you the best chance of attaining your predetermined goals.
Success didn’t come instantaneously, though. Coach Joshi also outlines the growing pains and obstacles they encountered offensively, as well as the critical steps they needed to take to get better as an offense. More importantly, Joshi emphasizes why it’s important for coaches to recognize when something isn’t working and when to pull the trigger on making changes to your initial plan.
Key Plays Within the Air Raid Offense
Coach Joshi dives deep in explaining how and why they landed on the Air Raid Offense as their system of choice. Providing in-depth details and examples, you’ll learn about the importance of practice repetitions and what you emphasize within each play.
You’ll also learn the best methods for developing an offensive script for upcoming opponents and when to make in-game adjustments.
Using game film breakdowns and detailed explanations, Joshi delves into his favorite Air Raid plays and the keys to making each play successful.
You’ll learn the inside details of a variety of Air Raid plays and the critical coaching points for successfully executing each of them against a variety of defenses, including: Jet Sweeps, Toss Plays, Off-Tackle Runs, Inside Runs plus a complete overview of the passing game.
Coach Joshi leaves no stone unturned in this highly valuable coaching video. A must-watch for offensive coaches at all levels of football!
58 minutes. 2025.
FD-06296G:
with Bill Pekarek,
St. James Academy (KS), Assistant Football Coach;
2020 & 2021 Kansas 4A State High School Football Champions;
Over 40 years as a football coach, including 30 years as a head coach
As Tom Radke, head football coach at St. James Academy builds his football program toward a goal of sustained success and continued championship aspirations, one of the coaching minds he taps into and relies upon heavily is Bill Pekarek. Coach Pekarek, with over 40 years of coaching under his belt, including 30 years as a head coach, adds a combination of knowledge and first-hand experience to the St. James Academy program.
In this highly valuable instructional coaching video, Coach Pekarek offers a deep-dive look at one of his favorite offensive weapons: the Stretch Package run game, as well as critical information and insight on countering defensive adjustments to keep opposing defenses off-balance and guessing.
Stretch Package Essentials
Providing the insight and detail that only a coach with over 40+ years’ of hands on experience can offer, Coach Pekarek pulls back the curtain on installing, teaching and executing a dynamic Stretch Package that fits perfectly into the tenets of modern offense and takes advantage of how defenses will try to stop it.
Using a whiteboard presentation to illustrate the Xs and Os of the Stretch Run Game, Pekarek showcases how to build the scheme from the ground up by beginning with an informative breakdown of the O-line including information, regarding stance, hand-placement, steps, execution keys, getting off-the ball on snaps and blocking assignments and player responsibilities for each position.
Coach Pekarek provides details on blocking a variety of defenses and the different looks that defenses may throw at you during the course of a game, including defenders to attack, offensive ‘counters-to-the-counters,’ both on the play-side and backside of each play.
From there, Pekarek provides the answers to handling a variety of blitzes your linemen will inevitably encounter and what opposing defenses may throw at you from a deception standpoint.
Moving to the backfield, Pekarek offers critical insight on the actions, rules and responsibilities for each back position and the keys to successful execution on Stretch Plays.
Dynamic Stretch Game: Using Play-Action, Bootleg Plays
Coach Pekarek sheds light on what makes a Stretch Package dynamic and complimentary to your pass game by explaining how to effectively utilize Stretch Plays versus the 3-4 Defense, a 4-3 Targeting the 1 Technique and a 4-3 Targeting the 3 Technique.
Additionally, Pekarek offers must-see information on the blocking rules for the playside WR and backside blocking responsibilities against each of those defenses.
Once you’ve had success running your own stretch package, as opposing defenses begin to key on your runs and creep toward the LOS, it’s time to add ‘stretch play-action game’ into the equation. Pekarek showcases detailed information on his best Stretch Plays, including: play-action blocking (60 protection) versus a 3-4 defense, play-action Stretch Pirate, play-action Stretch-Y Gator and play-action blocking (60 protection) versus a 4-3 that attacks the 3-technique.
No Stretch Package would be complete without an explosive Bootleg Pass that adds to the unexpected nature of countering the defensive adjustments. Coach Pekarek diagrams his tried-and-true, game-tested Bootleg Plays with Boot Pass versus a 3-4 defense, Boot Pass versus a 4-3 defense (targeting the 1-technique’s actions) and using a Boot Pass versus a 4-3 defense that targets the 3-technique’s actions.
In this one video, Coach Pekarek offers a litany of detailed information that coaches at all levels can use to either install an unpredictable Stretch Package into their offense or refine and energize their current Stretch Package.
Tap into Coach Pekarek’s 40+ years of successful coaching experience with the valuable Stretch Package information unveiled in this must-see video!
49 minutes. 2025.