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Overview
NFL Live Raiders Offense is a mirror of Raiders Offense. Both cuts carry the same 610 plays across the same 8 formations and 42 sets, with zero set differences between them. Pick this version if you prefer the NFL Live sheet label in your playbook menu, but understand you are not gaining or losing a single formation or concept by choosing it. Everything below applies equally to both, so scheme decisions should be made on the strength of the 610 play list, not on which cut you load.
What you actually get is one of the larger offensive team playbooks in the game, bigger than 83 percent of the 64 offensive team books, and it is unapologetically a Shotgun book. 382 of the 610 plays (63 percent) live in Shotgun across 22 sets, which is more Shotgun sets than most books carry in total. Singleback is the secondary hub at 105 plays (17 percent) over 7 sets, and from there the depth drops fast: I Form at 45 plays across 3 sets, Pistol at 36 across 4, Weak I at 21 across 2, Goal Line Offense at 12, Split T at 6, and Hail Mary at 3. Split T is the genuine oddity here, appearing in only 7 of the game's 236 playbooks, and the 0 1 Trap out of it is a legitimate change of pace look most opponents have never defended.
The concept list matches the shape of the spread. Play Action, Pass Play, Spot, Flat, Motion and Cover 3 Beater material dominates because that is what 22 Shotgun sets are for, while Power, Power Run, Counter, Toss and Dive give you the between the tackles answers out of I Form, Weak I, Split T and Goal Line Offense. Personnel range is wide, from 10 and 11 spread groupings all the way up to 23, 32 and 22 heavy sets, so you can run a shotgun-first, tempo-based game plan and still condense to FB Dive or 26 Duo without leaving the book. This is a playbook for a player who wants to live in Shotgun, mix 11 and 10 personnel route combos, and keep a small but real heavy package on standby for short yardage and clock killing.
Scheme Fit
This book wants a quarterback comfortable operating from Shotgun on the majority of snaps, with enough accuracy on the short and intermediate Spot and Flat concepts to move the chains without deep shots, and enough mobility to survive the pressure that a 63 percent gun book invites. A receiving back matters more than a bruiser given how much of the offense lives in 10 and 11 personnel, but you still need a fullback and a blocking tight end to make FB Dive, 26 Duo and the I Form and Weak I Power Run package worth calling. Pick NFL Live Raiders Offense if you want a large, Shotgun-first playbook with real set variety and a compact heavy package on the side, and skip it if your roster is built around a power back and under center play action.
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Strengths
- 22 Shotgun sets and 382 plays mean you can rebuild your entire audible package inside one formation family, flipping between sets on the same snap count so the defense never gets a pre-snap read off your formation alone.
- The Play Action, Spot, Flat and Cover 3 Beater concept density out of Shotgun gives you stacked answers against single high zone, and with that many sets you can attack the same coverage from three different alignments before an opponent adjusts.
- Split T shows up in only 7 of the game's 236 playbooks, so 0 1 Trap out of it is close to unscouted, and the alignment itself buys you a beat of hesitation from a user defender before the snap.
- Wide personnel range (10, 11, 12, 13, 20, 21, 22, 23, 32) lets you run formation subs to get a receiving back or an extra blocking tight end on the field without telegraphing run or pass, since the Shotgun sets support both.
- Singleback's 7 sets and 105 plays give you a real second base beyond Shotgun, so when an opponent starts nano blitzing your gun sets you have Motion and Counter material from a different backfield rather than just different plays.
Weaknesses
- 63 percent Shotgun is a tell. Opponents who scout you will assume gun and set their pre-snap fronts accordingly, and you have only 228 non-Shotgun plays to punish them with.
- Under center power is thin. I Form (45 plays), Weak I (21) and Split T (6) combine for 72 plays across 6 sets, so your Power Run and Dive package gets predictable fast against a user who commits to run fits in short yardage.
- Pistol is only 36 plays over 4 sets, which limits the play-action rollout and RPO style looks that usually bail out a gun-heavy book when the defense sits on your quick game.
- Goal Line Offense is a single set with 12 plays, so red zone and fourth and one calls funnel into a handful of recognizable looks like FB Dive that an opponent can sniff out after one series.
- Hail Mary is 3 plays across 2 sets, and with this much Shotgun already in the book there is no dedicated late-clock package beyond Goal Post, meaning your end of half offense is just your normal gun offense run faster.
Usage Tips
Build your primary audible package entirely out of Shotgun, picking three or four of the 22 sets that share similar alignments, and use them on every first and second down so your formation gives up nothing about the call.
Save Singleback for second and medium, where the 7 sets let you run Motion and Counter looks that pull a user defender out of position after they have spent a quarter reading your gun splits. Bench is your clean intermediate answer here.
Go to I Form and Weak I on third and one, fourth and short and any two minute clock kill, and keep 26 Duo and FB Dive as the paired calls so you can flip between them off the same personnel.
Pull out Split T and 0 1 Trap once per game at most, ideally on a short yardage snap after you have shown heavy I Form, since it appears in only 7 of 236 playbooks and the surprise is the whole value.
Keep Goal Line Offense strictly inside the five yard line and lean on hot routes rather than new plays, because 12 plays in one set will not survive repeated exposure against a user who has seen your goal line calls.
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