1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - Barry Thompson (Fairfax Football Academy): February 17th, 10am

Episode Date: February 17, 2022

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It's time to go one-on-one with D.P. Coming at you live from the Coppull Chevrolet GMC Studios, here is your host, Derek Pearson, presented by Beatrice Bakery, on 93-7 The Ticket and the Ticketfm.com. Welcome. Thursday edition of one-on-one. Talk a little quarterback play. Some of the things that are required along the way, Barry Thompson.

Fairfax Football Academy will call in here in a second. And we'll do that one. Thank the folks from Beatrice Bakery for sponsoring this hour of sports radio. I think I can take nominations today as well. You guys are going to do it on your show. Yes. So we can start taking the nominations now. Go to the ticketfm.com.

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Great speaking to them. They're all fans of the station. It was a great space to be in. They kind of speak my love language anyway, community love language, which is nice. But I took them a care package of Beatrice's bakery, and they loved it. They loved it. They absolutely loved it. As most people do.

I took a bunch of the samples and they were all in. But the actual cakes didn't last long either. So we can take nominations. Just go to the Ticketfm.com website. Find the Beatrice Baku banner, click on it. And whoever it is that, again, I'm not asking you to think deep. Think of the first person you think of when you want to see, and you want to see them smile today.

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464-5-6-85, sorry to have me a text line. Honda Lincoln Hotline. And we're live on the video stream. So it's that time of the week. It's my favorite clip. Let's do it. The autumn wind is a pirate. Blustering in from sea

with a rollicking song he sweeps along, swaggering boisterously. His face is weather-beaten. He wears a hooded sash with a silver hat about his head and a bristling black mustache. He growls as he storms the country, a villain big and bold. And the trees all shake and quiver and quake as he robs them of their gold. The autumn wind is a raider, pillaging just for fun. He'll knock you round and upside down.

and laugh when he's conquered and won. You got to let that just marinate. You just got to let that. Oh, that's so good. Why does it have to be the Raiders that have the coolest one? Because it's the Raiders. This is the Raiders. They kind of earned that.

They kind of earned that. Let's bring it Barry Thompson. QB coach, VT. What's happening, man? It sounds like you have to put listening to that and coming up with their own version about the black. Or the Huskers. I think they could, between them and their listeners,

they'll be able to come up with a 50 hopsters. This is why I hang out with you, because that's going to be our contest next week. That's correct. That's going to be a contest this week. Awesome. Awesome. Right?

Like, I think that needs to be done. We'll have the Husker Nation come up with their own version of, you know, the auto wind is a raider, but winter football is a black shirt. Yeah, I think that would be cool. Fall football is a black shirt. You know, kind of the mix of honoring the old, but, you know, getting to the new,

I think there's enough creative people that get it done. Yeah, they would write it out. And we could actually have black shirts read it. Oh. Right? Yeah. Yeah, have Jay four. Yeah.

They've got that kind of, uh, He'll be a vertone. I think if he put some, put his booty in there, that he can come up with it. Yeah, I think that's the plan for next week. What I will, you know, we'll actually come up. I have a Jason Peter signed black shirt jersey. We'll come up with a couple others.

And whoever comes up with the best one, we'll get the jersey. Yeah. I love it. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, it's necessary to do. Can I get Virginia entries in there? Yeah, go ahead. No, I'll just go ahead.

Yeah, no, well, you know what? The autumn wine is a cavalier. There we go. The autumn wine and cheese is a cavalier. I know we're going to talk about at the end, but we've got a whole lot of wine selection. Right. Myers cork and bottle at the end.

Yeah. Yeah. Like we'll just be able to say quickly as we can say it, you know. Yeah. Yeah. Charlottesville is it? Charlottesville. Wine and cheese with Izod and Argyz sucks. Come on, that.

That's who we are. Don't cheese my hooves too much. That's who we are. The truth hurts sometimes. That's who we are. Yeah, that's a great idea. That is, that is awesome. So, days after the Super Bowl, we, we get to watch the reclassification and re-identification

of Matthew Stafford and Joe Burrow. And I asked Jay and Rico this question. If you were, you had the number one pick in a re-scrambling of the NFL and you needed a quarterback of all the NFL

quarterbacks and all of the college quarterback. So you get two choices. You get one for college, one for pro. And it's to run whatever system, Barry Thompson, to run, right? Yeah. What quarterback in college do you take first?

The college guys, you know, I haven't studied them as much. I'm just entering that day, so I'm going to have to pass on them. Okay. And then I'm assuming that I can't take Derek Carr, you're asking me to say, because he's a Raider for you. Yeah, yeah, he won't be a Raider for long. Hey, you might be able to visit with him shortly. He might end up right there in Virginia.

Okay, we'll have some wine and cheese together. There we go. Of the pro games, you know, you just watch the Super Bowl. So why wouldn't you take Stafford or why wouldn't you take burrows, you know, based on what you saw them do in the systems that they ran? Those are not bad choices. And then that makes you almost forget about the homes, almost, right? almost, and then make you think, oh, then you got to remember Josh Allen, too.

I've said for my money, and I don't know where they'll be able to pull it off, I just like the combinations that Lamar Jackson offers. I don't know if they have everything set for him, but his skill set seems to be the most threatening skill set that's out there. I think the Ravens are going to have a challenge in, you know, how the money distributed to get the people around them to be able to do the perform where these other teams are. But in terms of big games, you look at Stafford, a lot to admire about his career. A guy just never set a peep and just fought his butt off and he gets rewarded. I don't know if all your listeners are seen, there's about a night.

You'll know it, D.P. It's a six-minute live clip. Ed Sable says, we're just going to show you this clip, and we're not going to make any commentary on it. It's a sapper mic up where his shoulder gets popped out. And have you seen the clip? Yep.

Yeah, yeah. I mean, it's amazing. You watch that, and you're automatically a fan of him. So then he arises. It's going to reshuffle. I don't know. I just like that skill set combination that Lamar Jackson has, and it doesn't mean I'd

don't like Josh Allen is really good. It doesn't mean I don't like Pat. Well, he's a cheat. And those four guys, I mean, they're all really skilled. They're all really good. But if I was to lift them out and move around, I think Lamar would be the most interchangeable guy. Does that make sense?

Yeah. You saw what Safford did. I think Lamar would be the most consistent performance. They're all really good. And that brings you back to because a couple times ago, you said, are we seeing a change in the car? Right? like these old guys and they knew guys

that kind of learned that I said it was more of a change in the uniform. I just think five guys. And I, you know, I didn't mention Hebrew. Right. Right. I didn't mention some other guys. I didn't mention car legitimately. You know, I did mention Aaron Rogers.

You still play in, I think, and then Russell Wilson and so forth. So I don't think this thing is an evolution stage where those guys right now, you expect them to be playoff quarterback next year just because of who they are. Didn't answer your question. question, but no, it provides, it provides food for the, for the conversation because when you

talk about style of play and where the game is now, right, and the NFL drives quarterback play for college and high school. So whatever, whatever the, the chic thing is in the NFL, quarterback is a copycat position, like where folks will try to figure out and identify what is successful, what's gone on, and then what can happen next. and nobody wants to be behind it, so you want to ride the wave as quickly as you can get on it. With that being said, what's the new quarterback? If Matthew Stafford is the guy who gets the golden ring

and had an impact in them getting the ring. So this is not a Trent Dillfer situation where he's riding the crest, but he actually had to make plays. Now, mind you, he's not Aaron Donald or Von Miller, but he's still Super Bowl champion. And Joe Burrell, what he did in winning the AFC, championship with the Bengals is a part of the discussion as well. So what is today's quarterback?

What's the next version of hot quarterback play in the NFL and in college football? Well, it's not going to be the quarterback play so much. I mean, the quarterback is important. You need one. But it comes to this conversation a lot. It's really what's put around him that makes them succeed. After you get the guy, it's the decision makers around it. And if they don't make a decision,

and, you know, Joe Burrell just becomes another guy. But go back to what they did. He's the most stock guy in the NFL. They go into the drafts. Everybody says, well, they need linemen. They pick some March 8. And that made all the difference in the world. You know, and you look at what they did.

You know, he had golf, and he said, no, I know what I have here. I need that guy. And they traded away six to get them, and it was the right thing. in that case they had an ecosystem, and they pulled the right guy in to run it. So, yes, you can have the right guy, but if the people around them don't make good decisions to help that guy do what he does really well, you're not going to get anything out of it. You just aren't in the NFL.

And to be honest with you, the NFL wants the Lamar Jackson. They have for years understood that a guy who can throw the ball active from the pocket and a guy who could run is a problem. You go back to Deacon Jones, and some of the listeners may not know who he is, but he curses Fran Parkington. Well, he's gone now, but to his last breath, he cursed Fran Parkinson.

Right. He was the guy that the people talked about. We just scrambled around. He doesn't know what he's doing. Deacon got pissed when he had to play him because he didn't know where he was going to be, and that caused his problems for defense. The problem with the dollars you're playing out

40 years and the team, you run the risk of injury and losing the guy. So the NFL, in my opinion, is always fighting against at the quarterback position, what they really want. What they really want is somebody like Lamar. What they really want is somebody like Patrick Mahomes, right? What they really want is, you know, somebody like Russell. That's what they really want.

But they haven't found a way to consistently kind of manage a guy like that. You know, Fran was probably, you know, and there was Steve. Young, right? Those guys really cause problems as much as a guy like Dan Marino or Matthew Stafford or Joe Burroughs. That's what they really want, but they can't figure out the equilibrium between the guy running and then keeping him safe. But that's going to be the most dangerous quarterback that there is. William Felt and Russell, we've always talked about this. One of the greatest basketball players ever lived, known as a defensive guy. He said the toughest thing to defend is something that I don't know where it's going to be.

And you go back to the Alabama games recently, as National Championship, they did a fantastic job of moving their key players around the chessboard. And that presents problems. It's tough. You mentioned Russell Wilson, and his possible free agency's pending free agency has driven the question, And where is Russell Wilson in the quarterback hierarchy long-term currently? Well, it depends on what he does next. You know, he doesn't have, you know, he's had a consistent run of success. He's got the, what, two Super Bowl appearances, one ring.

Is that right? Yep. Is that right? Okay. And I know people are constantly saying that he's not a whole thing. I've never seen so much discussion about Hall of Famers when they're mid-career. Like, he has a whole second story. I mean, people forget Peyton Manning's second half story.

Or people forget Don Elway's second half story. John Elway, right, at the midpoint, it was just the guy who could really sling the ball, gets through balls, he couldn't win. And then the back half of this story, when they started putting things around him and Don started, you know, understanding that he couldn't do it on his own, back-to-back Super Bowl wins.

That changed it. Now he's a different dude, right? Right. So this thing, when a guy's halfway through his career or whatever it is. He's not done and talk about the Hall of Fame. I think Russell is,

you know, he's going to try to, I think he's true enough to try to have a great conversation about how things are going to go and what he feels he needs to win. If he gets all that, he gets in a place,

I think he'll be as successful as he was with Seattle. If he just takes his money, you're going to see pretty much maybe a repeat of what we saw the last couple of years. So it just depends. That ecosystem around the quarterback is so important.

So important. It almost strips the quarterback of his abilities if the things aren't done correctly around. Imagine if you got Brady at New England and they were convinced that they were going to try to make them run an RPO system like Nick Foote. Right? Or talking to Nick Fold.

right how they get Super Bowl they got rid of them because they wanted to do something else they brought him back they put in the stuff that he was really good at bang super bowl that's nick foote that's how important that stuff is i'm going to put you in the hot seat with this one because i know that you you're going to hate this but i'm going to ask you to do it um you talk about joe borough and what what was put around him you talk about quarterbacks in the ecosystem around you as a quarterback's coach and now you've got you your top guy, right? You've picked the quarterback of your choice. But pick number two is either going to be a left tackle or a 1A receiver. What do you choose? I'm getting John at Ogden out of retirement. I'm bringing Anthony Munoz. I'm bringing Anthony Munoz in to coach him. Right. And any other, what, Dave was the guy that's a great, great lineman, he wasn't a tackle, played for Alabama, played for New England for years. Oh, John Hannah, John Hannah. John Hannah.

John Hannah, I'm bringing him around. Right? And I'm going back, I'm going back and getting that. Any guy that's been great with the line, yeah, he's got to stand off. He's got to stand up. Is that what you think happens for Cincinnati? I mean, that's the talk, right? And even that's what happens with L.A.

Do you get another banger or do you? Yeah, go back. the skill set thing was because what the Bengals did was interesting, right? You would think that if I had been in the front office right, I'd have been banging to go get a tackle or protect this guy. But somehow there's a calculator, and I tend to think, you know, that Joe was screaming on the table, so give me this guy, I can fix that. And somehow somebody won out.

I said, no, we're going to get Jamar Chase. And somehow that worked, and that fits of Joe's strength. If you look at Jamar, Jamar doesn't dust people. He never does. I don't know what release game he has, but you go back and watch his catch is he's bodied up next to somebody. He's in the air.

Look at the catch that he made in the Super Bowl. I mean, he tracked that ball early while the defensive back was still resisting, got himself in there, and Joe threw the perfect ball form. So there's something about those two that wipes out a multitude of things. I don't know if any other quarterback

could have made that choice and solved the problem. But evidently, with Joe and Jamar, it was unique to Cincinnati. You know, we've seen quarterback take their favorite receivers before, it doesn't work out. But this one solved. This wiped out a multitude of sense for them, that pick. And I think that's unique to Joe. Watching that game being played and the throws that were being made

especially in critical times. So there's that the throw that I've seen you work with quarterbacks make every day of your drills, which is that trash can throw to the corner where it's timing and look. Just put it in the same place over a defender, right? That's why you arc it and you can't throw it straight into the trash can. You've got to put some elevation on it. And the timing has to be right. Versus that fade back shoulder throw towards the point.

high line on time. Which of those are the board difficult of the two throws to make? Because there were a couple that were missed in the Super Bowl, and there were a couple that were hit. Which ones are the most difficult throws to make? Well, I think the one that, it depends on the field that they are. So if you're out midfield and you're trying to, guys going down the sideline, that takes a lot of reading.

And there's a lot of space. and both the receiver and the quarterback have to be on the same exact page as to when things are going to happen. So a simple way of describing a back shoulder field down the field is, you know, the quarterback at the high school level, you know, the level way of saying, okay, I'm running forward, and I'm looking at both sides, and I'm going to take the pressed up corner. I'm going to start there.

Now, as the receiver starts, right, if he gets on top of the quarter, on the defensive back, then the quarterback's just going to throw the ball, right? But if for some reason, at a certain point at the defensive back, it's even on top of the defensive back, then the receiver knows he's going to get a back-shoulder throw. That sounds simple, right? But they've got to both be on the same thing. And then the quarterback's location of that throw, it takes quarterbacks a while and understand.

I always think target the helmet, and that'll put the ball right where it wants to be. Now, inside the red zone, phase they're going to happen and allow people to be more physical. That's probably a little easier thing for the two to get, right? Because the same rules. If I get on top of them, I'm not here. But in that case, a receiver can communicate to the quarterback, hey, I'm not going to try to get on top of them, right?

That's when you see both hands, right? Two hands on the defensive back and the defensive back there. He's got his face. And now just put the ball where I can go get it, right? The corner route is one, like most of the pro passes, it just has to be thrown on time, right? You can't wait. He's got his steps down, you've got your steps down,

the balls going to the corner, and he has to go get it. That one, from a timing perspective, an execution perspective, is more easily practiced over and over again, right? I put up clips of my got. You've seen progesting where they're just the same spot. It's easy to walk a quarterback up that. The back shoulder stuff in the field, that takes a lot of time. And it's not as easy to execute it.

Well, it's training, high repetition, and awareness. I'm going to ask you a question before I ask you the question. Since we've been talking about quarterbacks and what they need around them, right? Nebraska is in a very similar situation. Like, folks want to get excited about skill position guys. But how important is it? They need a left tackle anchor, right? That needs to happen.

That's important. How important is it to the success of Casey Thompson and this Nebraska offense? Well, it's got to feel comfortable, and I don't mean to pick on anybody, but, you know, the times that I dipped in on Nebraska football, the right guard was an issue too. Right. Right? So A&B gaps, you want to take care of those first.

So that's got to be solidified. Then you can move out, right? But if you can't protect A&B gaps, the short distance between two points in the straight line, that happens. Then you move out to the tackle spot. Again, you know, with the skill players, there's ways to get around that. You know, if you don't have a strong left tackle, then, you know, there's certain things. When people think of path protection, it's not just, especially as the guys move up a level,

it's not just equating numbers. At the high school level, if I see six in the box and I want to be a belt suspenders guy, I call a protection that I have six protected, right? The standard one is I'll have a half-man slide, three people sliding zone, three defenders, and then I'll have two man defenders on whatever side I call, and then the back would be the check for the third person that may come from the right. So I've got three on the left, three on the right, I've got six. I'm protected.

As you move up, now protection is not just about numbers. Protection is about math. Right. You know, I may like a full term protection where I have my whole line side. Everybody. Right. And my back comes to your play action, and he comes up and he takes the defensive end. Well, there's some backs that you don't want near a defensive end, you know,

and that's not a good matchup, even though it's a great protection for you. Right. Sometimes you're going to have to come in, and you're going to need to double team somebody. Or maybe they have to choose somebody, and you have to figure out protection where you get two double teams, and you handle the rest of the protection. So you certainly can ship, but again, you know, what kind of back do you have? We're talking about running backs. What do you want?

I've failed to mention two things. Can he block him back? Block him at Astro. And two, could he get out, right? Those are ways that you can kind of control or get around a defensive end. You know, he's coming hard, and then I'll take advantage of the space that he creates by putting the back right behind it, right? you know, that old attitude, he can't block them, kind of read them.

So there's a ways around that from a protection standpoint. But then that puts a burden on Casey, right? Now he has to know his protections. And you get me talking about this. I'm spending a lot of time with Guy and my guys that are ready to go in college. You know, we spend an intense amount of time now talking about protections and things like that and making sure they can't sit. When you watch guys like Josh Allen, a couple of times.

playoffs ago. I don't know if I mentioned this, but, or you watch Aaron Rogers play, just any of these guys. And if it appears to you that they always seem to know where everything is on the field as they move around, it is because they do know where they're in the field. I'll give an example. I would show some of my quarterback. There's a playoff game, Josh Allen. It's a protection we call 300 jet. It just, it just means that there's a three, the center of the guard and the tackle on the right are a zone. to the right. So they mean that they're taking here, the A, B, and C gap, no matter of what combination of defenders come, they've got those three. To the left or two man defenders, and the back would, if he's in protect, if that's not gap, he would be checking to that

side. So here's the place. So he's got three guys slide to his right. He's got man defenders or blockers to his left. He drops back on the hash. And with no signs of pressure, he takes two quick steps to the right side of that hatch. Now, it may not look like anything to you, but what he was doing, he did two things. If you stood on the hash, right, by getting off the hatch, he did two things. He bought extra time, which everybody can understand,

because he was actually throwing a crossing route, which is coming from his right, going to his left. He bought extra time. But what he was really doing, by moving from the hash a little bit to the right, he was increasing the distance that the defensive tackle and end would have to go to get to him. Right? He increased the distance.

He moved about two feet from him. And of the two sides of your protection, the zone side or the slide side and the man side, which side is most likely to get beat? Most likely to get beat on the one-on-one side. So he purposely steps to the slide side. And sure enough, when you watch him find out, only throw the ball, there's a defensive tackle from whoever over there playing.

He'd get to the hatch. But Joe had been there. I mean, Josh had been there. That would have been a pressured throw. So knowing the protection is extremely important for a quarterback, not just, you know, numerically where they equate, but exactly where your gaps are, exactly how you buy extra time, exactly where you want to escape. If you feel pressure, if you feel pressure from the sun, what does that you?

it means. So there's a whole lot that will go in from the quarterback perspective to helping that left tackle if he's not Jonathan Ogden. Yeah, that's why, see, this is why we bring you on. It's a master's class, right? It's necessary because there's so much to it. And you're a great detailer and explainer. You create the visual and open folks' minds up to what is required to play, the things that they're not seeing that these experts do see. Before we let you go, got to ask, what are we eating? Yeah, we're going to Spain.

Okay, cool. I'm back. Spain, I love their tap. There's a dish called potato and Teresa tortilla. So it's not the central South American tortilla or taco's tea. It's called potato and

chorizo tortilla. And it's a really simple dish. You'll need about a 12-inch skillet. if you're using nonstick, you want an ovenproof. You're pre-eatheelven 375. You'll need about a pound of fresh Teresa, three medium-filled egg, potatoes, one medium onion, and some salt and pepper,

half a cup of milk, and there's something that little salad that goes on top. Those are the main things, eight large eggs. So in the pan, right, you take the chorizo. They usually comes in a fresh casein. and you put three tablespoons of olive on there, and you can't brown it. Press teresa is going to look red,

but you kind of cook it off on medium-high heat for about four or five minutes. After that, you're going to put in your potatoes and your onions. Now, the size of the cut, right? You don't have to dice them finally, but you want to make them like, you know, bite-sized on the sprote, you know, kind of however you want to cut it. That goes in with the terriso, and you cook that on the medium-high for about another five minutes

until the onions get soft. after that you're going to turn the heat down to medium and put a lid on it and let it cook for another 10 minutes until the potatoes get soft after that pull that lid off crank it back up to medium high because you want the potatoes to get a little little crispy on the bottom are you with me deep too i'm i'm all in okay i'm all in and then in the meantime those eight large eggs and a half cup of the milk little salt and pepper your whisky nose until it gets frothy your mixture and the pan is done so then you pour the eggs on top of top of that and you just want to move it around the tan to make sure everything is evenly coated. And once that's done, you pop it into the oven for about 12 to 15 minutes. It's going to puff up and it's using a regular pan.

You'll see that they'll start to come away from the edges pretty easily. When that's done, you want to, don't dig into it right away. You'll take it out of the dish and you'll let it sit for about five minutes. While that's going on to make mom happy, take a half of maybe a cup of Nick greens, about maybe a half of lemon. You're going to juice it, and then maybe a tablespoon of olive oil. And you'll take the lemon on, we'll make a little vina, a little salt and pepper, toss that with the green.

And then you can either put those on the side of the tortilla or right on top, just a little bit on top, and go eat it, and you'd need a fancy, you know, I don't know wines, but, you know, maybe red Spanish wine to go with it or a good servaa or iced tea lemonade. And the great thing about these tortillas is they hold up really well. If anybody out there really enjoys a cold slice of pizza, these tortillas, when you make them, yeah, they're great while they're warm. They're easy to warm back up.

But the dish holds up really well for three or four days, and you'll just be snacking off it for the rest of the week. It's a potato and chorizo tortilla. Really good stuff. Great. We're all hungry now, thanks. None of us. Okay.

Fair. Fair, fair, fair, very fair. Hey, BT, good stuff. Appreciate you, man. Love what you do. Thanks for having you. All right, that's Barry Thompson. Fairfax football, Camry.

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