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Overview
Raiders Offense and its sibling cut, NFL Live Raiders Offense, are effectively the same book. They share all 610 plays and differ by zero sets, so the choice between them is cosmetic rather than strategic. Whichever one you load, you get the identical formation tree, the same 42 sets and the same audible pool, so pick based on menu preference and move on to building your package.
What you actually get is a big, Shotgun-first spread book. At 610 plays it is larger than 83 percent of the game's 64 offensive team playbooks, and 382 of those plays (63 percent) live in Shotgun across 22 different sets. That is the engine: 11, 10 and 12 personnel spread looks with Pass Play, Play Action, Flat, Spot and Cover 3 Beater concepts, plus enough Shotgun run (Power Run, Counter, Toss) that you are not purely throwing out of it. Singleback adds 105 plays over 7 sets as the balanced middle ground, and then the run-heavy tail gives you I Form (45 plays, 3 sets), Pistol (36 plays, 4 sets), Weak I (21 plays, 2 sets) and Goal Line Offense (12 plays) for short yardage, with FB Dive and 26 Duo as the downhill staples.
The genuine wrinkle is Split T, a 6 play set that appears in only 7 of the game's 236 playbooks. Combined with 23, 32 and 22 personnel groups, it gives you a heavy package most opponents have never seen lined up against them, including the 0 1 Trap looks that hit interior gaps before a user defender can flow. The game plan this supports is a spread passing attack built on pre-snap motion and hot routes, with a rarely scouted heavy shell you rotate in on third and short, goal line and four minute drills.
Scheme Fit
This book wants a quarterback who is accurate on the move and comfortable making pre-snap reads, since 63 percent of your calls are Shotgun and you will be motioning and hot routing on most snaps. Behind him you need a receiving back who can release from the Pistol and Shotgun sets, at least two route runners with strong release ratings for the 10 and 11 personnel spread looks, and a fullback plus a blocking tight end to make the I Form, Weak I, Goal Line Offense and Split T packages worth carrying. Pick Raiders Offense if you are a spread passer who still wants a genuine heavy short yardage answer and you are willing to learn 22 Shotgun sets instead of living in three.
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Strengths
- Twenty two Shotgun sets across 382 plays means you can run the same route combo, Spot, Flat and the Cover 3 Beater family, from wildly different alignments, so your opponent cannot pattern match your formation to your concept the way they can against a book with five or six Shotgun sets.
- Split T shows up in only 7 of 236 playbooks, so the 0 1 Trap and downhill interior looks out of it force your opponent to defend a formation they have almost no reps against, and the 23 and 32 personnel groups behind it sell run before you ever motion out of it.
- The Shotgun to Singleback split (63 percent to 17 percent) lets you build one audible package that covers empty spread passing and one back play action without ever leaving 11 and 12 personnel, so formation subs stay intact and your speed stays on the field between plays.
- The 45 play I Form block, the 21 play Weak I block and the 12 play Goal Line Offense set give you a real short yardage identity with FB Dive and 26 Duo rather than forcing you to convert third and one out of a Shotgun draw.
- Thirty six Pistol plays across 4 sets bridge the gap: run and Play Action out of the same depth, which pairs with a scrambling quarterback and hides your Counter and Toss tells better than Singleback does.
Weaknesses
- Sixty three percent of the book is Shotgun, so a good user opponent will sit in nickel and dime, user the middle hook and dare you to run anything that is not from the gun. The heavy formations exist but they are a small fraction of your calls.
- Split T is only 6 plays in 1 set, so the novelty runs out fast. Once an opponent sees the 0 1 Trap twice, there is not enough variety in the set to keep punishing them and you have to bail back to Shotgun.
- Hail Mary is only 3 plays and Goal Line Offense is only 12, so your desperation and goal line packages are thin. Inside the two yard line you are cycling through a very short list that a repeat opponent will memorize.
- No Full House or Wing type volume in the spread means your true power run tree is mostly FB Dive, Power and Counter out of I Form and Weak I, which is only 66 plays combined. Stacked box looks against those are easy to guess right.
- With 42 sets spread over 8 formations, most of them in Shotgun, the book rewards deep knowledge and punishes casual play. Half your sets will go unused if you do not spend time trimming a real audible package.
Usage Tips
Build your primary audible package entirely inside Shotgun, picking three of the 22 sets: one 11 personnel look for Spot and Flat concepts, one 10 personnel spread look for your Cover 3 Beater calls, and one with a tight end attached for Play Action. That covers first and ten through third and eight without a formation change.
Keep Singleback as your second audible slot. With 105 plays across 7 sets it is where you mix Power Run and Play Action from the same look, which is the cleanest way to punish an opponent who has started sitting in dime against your Shotgun volume.
Save Split T for third and one, fourth and one and four minute situations. The 0 1 Trap hits before a user defender can read it, and because the set appears in only 7 playbooks in the game your opponent has no muscle memory for the alignment.
Put I Form and Weak I in your run audible for second and short and any time you want to force an opponent out of nickel. FB Dive and 26 Duo are the calls, and the 21 and 22 personnel on the field keeps your play action threat honest afterward.
Use Pistol on second and medium when you want the Counter and Toss action without the Singleback tell. Four sets is enough to motion, hot route the back to a flat and still keep the run look intact.
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