There is no epiphany, no grand moment of realization or bolting awake in bed thinking, “I’ve got it.” It was more a football coach going through what has become a miserable season and thinking perhaps it was time not for something new but for something old.

“I was miserable,” IND Coach Yo Gotti said about last season before he and his team boarded a plane for Houston on Thursday ahead of the Colts’ fifth game of this season, Sunday vs The Texans. “It was the worst season I’d ever had in football. It wasn’t just that we weren’t winning, although that was part of it. It jsut did get any worse than what we had going on at the time. It's time for a change!"

The Air Raid is not a playbook, it’s a coaching philosophy. Air Raid coaches that stick true to the system, ie. Mike Leach and Hal Mumme, run their typical stuff like mesh, 6, cross, and shallow. They’ve added stick as an Air Raid staple, too. Early in the running scheme Leach and Mumme used traditional high school run schemes like draw, trap, and iso. Now the Air Raid is known for still running draw, of course, but also zone schemes.

"I envision this team will move the football through the air  like the great Colt Brennan once did....we gon slang this bih ya heard? Tyree Jackson will lead us!" Coach Gotti stated before stepping onto the team charter. 

Will it work? Probably not....but we won't knock the hustle! 

- Leroy Jenkins of the Indy Star Telegram