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There are those who will tell you that the Arizona Cardinals are going to revolutionize the N.F.L. this year. Kliff Kingsbury is planning to go full-bore with his version of the Air Raid offense in his first season as coach, and the pass-heavy scheme is likely to be the talk of the league.

But Benjamin Hoffman wondered how revolutionary it was for an N.F.L. team to use the Air Raid. Mike Leach, the Washington State coach who was one of its inventors, said: “The last several Super Bowls, those were Air Raid teams. They didn’t necessarily call themselves that, but they ran a ton of Air Raid concepts.”

Coach Doug Pederson of the Philadelphia Eagles has incorporated the Air Raid into his offense. The Patriots’ current offense looks more like the Air Raid than the scheme it used when Tom Brady was getting started.