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I highly recommend reading this article as it has a lot of good information but I want to quote an excerpt for it because I see Goff get knocked a lot for his system. I think people focus far too much on a label ("Air Raid") and far too little on what he's doing in the system. I've said it before but the biggest differences for him at the NFL level will be the verbiage and having a larger playbook. The system he plays in now is not your average "Air Raid" system. He basically is treated like a NFL QB within that system.
Here's the article and the quote (from Goff's former Offensive Coordinator):
"TF (Tony Franklin): First of all, I hate when people call our deal the Air Raid. I don't like it. It all goes back to a time when there was an offense called the Air Raid. If you ever coached with anybody in that, people take credit and say, "Yeah, they do what we do."
If you watch our offense, that's not who we are. We want to run the football. We tried to run the football. If we can, we do run the football. We have a tremendous amount of play-action passes and big sets. We have sets with seven offensive linemen in the game at the same time. We have sets with two or three tight ends in the game.
We weren't a check-with-me system. There are times in my career where I did that, because it helped us win games. But our offense now is built upon progression reads.
There are many plays when you watch Jared, he gets to his fifth progression. It's a straight dropback system where he goes through his progression and tries to get to that fifth read within three seconds. If he doesn't, he'll be in trouble, because he'll be sacked.
We do a tremendous amount of run-pass stuff where we have a run play called with a two- or three-route combination on it.
He's taking the snap as the coverages take place, fitting the ball into the running back's stomach and needs to make a decision whether he'll hand the ball off or throw to the first or second read in the progression.
It's all based on post-snap reads.
Another thing we do with him, he was able to change protections at any time. He was allowed to change the play at any time. He probably had to do more than any NFL quarterback does right now.
A lot of what Jared did: I call a play with two or three guys running routes within the play. Pre-snap, he can come up and change everything. He could change the play completely if he wanted to do so. He could just change the protection. Or he could wait until the ball is snapped and make a decision based on what the defense did.
I try to make everything simple for the quarterback, but it doesn't mean it's simple. It's my job to make him believe what he's doing is simple. So, we tried to teach in simplistic terms.
Instead of saying, "when they're in Cover 8 or 6 and the safety does this, you automatically do that," I didn't give him automatics. We talked in theories. Theoretically, this is what they're trying to do, but it doesn't mean it's going to work.
Ninety percent of defensive coordinators after something went wrong with a player say, "We misaligned," or "we didn't get the check," or "the strong safety got the check, but the free safety didn't."
Most of the time, defenses don't know what they're doing.
If I tell Jared as a quarterback, "If the safety does this, you should automatically go to this," I'm not giving him rules that actually work. I'm giving him rules that are supposed to work. It doesn't mean they do.
What I do is teach him what they're trying to do. Therefore, if there is something easy within the progression and you want to take it, great, do that.
Otherwise, let's go through the system and see if one, two, three, four and five are going to work if we're dropping back like we're supposed to."
Here's the article and the quote (from Goff's former Offensive Coordinator):
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http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2606877-former-cal-offensive-coordinator-dispels-myths-regarding-qb-jared-goffIf you watch our offense, that's not who we are. We want to run the football. We tried to run the football. If we can, we do run the football. We have a tremendous amount of play-action passes and big sets. We have sets with seven offensive linemen in the game at the same time. We have sets with two or three tight ends in the game.
We weren't a check-with-me system. There are times in my career where I did that, because it helped us win games. But our offense now is built upon progression reads.
There are many plays when you watch Jared, he gets to his fifth progression. It's a straight dropback system where he goes through his progression and tries to get to that fifth read within three seconds. If he doesn't, he'll be in trouble, because he'll be sacked.
We do a tremendous amount of run-pass stuff where we have a run play called with a two- or three-route combination on it.
He's taking the snap as the coverages take place, fitting the ball into the running back's stomach and needs to make a decision whether he'll hand the ball off or throw to the first or second read in the progression.
It's all based on post-snap reads.
Another thing we do with him, he was able to change protections at any time. He was allowed to change the play at any time. He probably had to do more than any NFL quarterback does right now.
A lot of what Jared did: I call a play with two or three guys running routes within the play. Pre-snap, he can come up and change everything. He could change the play completely if he wanted to do so. He could just change the protection. Or he could wait until the ball is snapped and make a decision based on what the defense did.
I try to make everything simple for the quarterback, but it doesn't mean it's simple. It's my job to make him believe what he's doing is simple. So, we tried to teach in simplistic terms.
Instead of saying, "when they're in Cover 8 or 6 and the safety does this, you automatically do that," I didn't give him automatics. We talked in theories. Theoretically, this is what they're trying to do, but it doesn't mean it's going to work.
Ninety percent of defensive coordinators after something went wrong with a player say, "We misaligned," or "we didn't get the check," or "the strong safety got the check, but the free safety didn't."
Most of the time, defenses don't know what they're doing.
If I tell Jared as a quarterback, "If the safety does this, you should automatically go to this," I'm not giving him rules that actually work. I'm giving him rules that are supposed to work. It doesn't mean they do.
What I do is teach him what they're trying to do. Therefore, if there is something easy within the progression and you want to take it, great, do that.
Otherwise, let's go through the system and see if one, two, three, four and five are going to work if we're dropping back like we're supposed to."
