1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - Barry Thompson (Fairfax Football Academy): February 3rd, 10am

Episode Date: February 3, 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 to one-on-one on a cold, cold, cold Thursday. But you know what that means? It's the winter winds. The autumn wind is a pirate. Blustering in from sea With a rollicking song he speaks 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. I'm so, I'm such a music. a goober. Fall in love with this thing every once a week all the time. Let's bring them in. Coach Barry Thompson, BT, what's happening, man? Music comes on. You're a busy guy.

I want to start with the breaking news that our young man, Noel Walters, has committed to North Alabama. What are the folks from North Alabama getting, and what did Nebraska miss out on? well like that we've talked about he's a kid who can play you know you want to have a part of your program at upper level and you don't think that this guy is the guy you know i have a hard time getting around that everybody that's in that quarterback room everybody's in that position room not all of them play so if you have a kid that's not going to play why not take a chance on the kid that's going to add your program and you're going to get what they see on

tape is what they're going to get. They got a steal. And I looked at their schedule. He rises in the teams where I have quarterbacks, Robert Morris and Momon. So I got a few surprises in that schedule, even though Momit

is moving to the CAA this year. But yeah, so I'm excited. I'm very excited for him. To those guys, they're out there. I understood this took a long time. Took a long time. And sometimes the quarterback position

and it takes a long time. I just had a quarterback just committed to Ab State, and it just happened like with today. Today is Thursday, half a Tuesday, so sometimes it takes time. Yeah, it's the work behind the scenes and the work in the dark, and then those things come to light. What lessons have you learned in trying to get Guy Myers ready for NFL Combine and that work? What are the latest lessons you picked up?

Well, we talked about that he adapted to apply ourselves to rapidly and see if we take or, you know, if he's working with Josh Chamberlain and accelerate, you know, that point. So he's learning to taking the very first steps, in my opinion, of becoming a professional, right? That you show up every day and on to perform a certain way. And so that's the phase that we're going through and we'll be going through for the next 25 days until he heads off to his first time line. How many throws a day would you figure he's going to make in that progression? Like how much work does it take to elevate yourself as a quarterback?

How many throws a day? Oh, wow. Deep, no wonder why you're good at what you do. My older guys, because I know that they're, you know, like guys double training in the body who get sore, stuff like that, we always mix into the routine. of volume of have a medball routine that we use, where he can get a ton of throws in terms of working specific parts of the throw

without stressing the arm or stress the shoulder. I teach my quarterback to throw a certain way for the elbows located at the time of release, shoulder problems, this and that. But that said, if any of my quarterbacks ever come up, hey, my arm feels, we just shut it down. I don't know that I have a brick like 100 or 200 or 300, with God because there's a volume of throws that build up.

So we certainly didn't throw as much in December as we're throwing now. And as we get in this final 25 days before the first combine, there's going to be kind of a set routine. We went through part of it last night where we're taking him through. Barry, how do you temper the angst and anxiety and excitement of preparing for such a large goal? Right? to get it within reps, to get it within workouts, to get it within each drill. How do you temper that?

Because you can't go 100 all the time, can you? No, you can't. And the emotional, it's okay to be eating butterflies in your stomach and that's something. But you just kind of make those son of a gun flying formation. Yeah, yeah. So back, I try to get a player there, slowly walked them up to the point. Walked them up to the point. It wasn't right.

Right. And you've got to get them to that point. And once you get them to that point, what they've done is, but they're getting close to that standard where they'll never, ever get it wrong and never, ever being the key word. So there's a, there's a certain volume of repetitions that gets them to one point. Then there's another volume of repetition that gets them to that point where under any circumstances they're going to get it right. Right. And that's because then when the emotions take over or start to end up, enter, you can find that calm amidst the chaos and go ahead. It's something that has to be walked up to. And he's approaching that. He's approaching that. As a matter of fact, we just had a discussion. We meet every morning at 8 o'clock. And we just had a, we're just talking about that this morning.

Maybe you were listening to that. I'm always listening in, Barry. That's how that works. That's exactly how that works. Right. Through all of this, signing day was yesterday for, for the Huskers. And they added some folks to the roster.

And I don't want to talk about the players specifically. But I'm asking you from a talent standpoint, when you look at film for a running back, what are you looking for? Like especially at a Power 5 level, at a Big 10 level, we know from repetition of film study what a Big 10 running back looks like. Right.

I'll ask you what is that? What do they look like? What do they do that makes them stand out as, hmm, a next level runner? Well, there's different ones, right? Like, we know what a Wisconsin running back looks like, correct? Right. Like, it's really easy to envision. We know what an Ohio State running back, what he would look like and how dynamic he would be.

So it depends on what they're looking for. But at the very least, if you're planning to. between the Wisconsin style and the Ohio State side. Power is one thing I want to see, right? I want to see power. And I mean power not in terms of lifting the gym. But guys can be fast, and then guys can be fast and powerful. They just run a different way.

They're running through arm tackles. I want to see a guy who can get the extra yard. I want to kind of measure after this first contact. You know, what am I seeing at this guy, right? Those are the kind of differentiating marks that I want to see out of a runner. I want to see good speed. And I need to see, you know, depending on what I'm asking him to do, I got to be real specific.

So, you know, am I looking for a gap scheme runner who is going to run behind a fullback? Is that what I'm going to use? Then I'm going to pull on some tape and see a guy. because that is a different style. You know, there's certain timing for, you know, picking up pulling guards or, you know, the footwork and stuff that allows you enough spacing to make cuts and decisions off a fullback's block.

That's a lot different than if I'm straight, a zone guy, right? And I'm just reading the three technique or if I'm watching the one get, you know, washed down, I'm cutting out the backside or any of that stuff or if I'm reading the linebacker and cutting the opposite of him or, you know, it's just different. Not that there isn't a running back that could do both, but I want to be

real specific, you know, or am I going to an old eye back? Right? Am I going to that? I don't know if there's many out there, but I definitely have any style. I want to see power. I want to see speed. I want to see the ability to run through some tackles. And then I want

to see some ability to do what I'm asking him to do. Barry, you had a question on the text line, and you're a great guy to ask this too. Barry, have you ever worked with a kid that decided to quit playing a sport he loved and was built for for an unexplained reason? What did you say to them? Go fishing. Right?

It happens. I don't know if I told this story around here. You know, one of the things when I'm working on the quarterback, I always say, you know, your job is to get better by the next time. time you see me. I think I told the story. And anyway, this particular kid, I couldn't quite tell his first one. So I stopped. We're about to start. And I stopped. And I said, did you do anything between the last time we talked? And he goes, no. And I go, what did you do? And he said, I went fishing. And I got, you fish. And we went in this whole conversation. Turns out that he wants to be a professional bass fisherman. So the whole conversation went away from football into

college scholarships for fishing or programs that offer them. And I said, let's go do that. And I treated him just like a quarterback. You know, I'll find my quarterback to contact the school and get back to me and make sure it did it. Yeah. And he can really throw the football and he can play. But it wasn't his passion.

His passion was fishing. Is that a matter of just finding out what is important to them? Or a way to find out what's important to them? Yeah, D.P., you, it's so funny you asked us because we had these conversations. Right, right. But the most important thing, the very best thing about football for me, the absolute best thing about football, is that it's never, ever just about football. So when a young person comes to me, even an older player comes to me, I'm not looking,

And my first objective is how can I get a win with this person? Meaning they've chosen to spend their time and resources with me. I mean, we live in an area where you can spend your money and time on anything. It's not just, you know, football, basketball and baseball anymore. It's everything. Yeah. But out of all that, they decided they're going to come to me, the parents are going to give their money to me, and they're going to give their son to me.

And I just feel it's my obligation to figure out, okay, how can, what's going to move this person forward? You know, and if we're doing it through football, that's fine. But I'll quickly find out what's missing, right? Like, is it confidence, is it a work ethic? Is it not balancing management? All in the football contacts. But that, once I find that and we move forward, that is the win, right? It's not, the win isn't, you know, does he start?

The win isn't, does he get a scholarship? those are nice things that happen along the way. But the foundation of those things being sustainable is, can I get a win with this guy? Can I move them in a way? And, you know, I just think that's so important for what I do. And I think coaching in general, you know, can you get a win with a person? Can you move them forward somehow? Can you tap in to the real reason that they're there?

What is it that they really want? right and then you you kind of meld that into is what you really want a part of where we're going right if it's a part of where we're going let's go if it's not then okay let's find out what else you need to do but yeah it I think it's the only way to go about it DP and I know you agree with you but yeah so hope I answer that text line question

yeah we've been in that space right that we're yeah it happens more often than parents know because a lot of times the parents don't know. They don't know that the kid comes and says, hey, I don't want to do this anymore

but my parents don't understand. Or that the parents and kid haven't had that honest discussion over the why, right? Or they've had two honest of the discussion. You know, if I say this story, you'll know if we've had a kid

who we were wondering why he wasn't really getting up and then he tells us, well, I'm never going to play in college. And I'm like, what? What are you talking about? Like, who told you that? Right.

Like, wow. Do you want a playing college? Yes. Okay, well, then let's do this if you want it. And he played at West Point. Like it wasn't. Like it wasn't. It wasn't.

It wasn't. I remember it's so funny. Like, I remember the call. It was Easter weekend. I had him for baseball. This was a multi-sport athlete. I had him for baseball. Kid was a young man.

He had the doctor. He had the. diamond effect, but he had dirt on him. Right? He'd be covered up for so long that he was just like, no, I'm not a diamond. I'm just here, just kind of hanging out. And I remember... Here with my voice. I'm like, no,

you're not one of the boys. You're the guy. Right. Like, you're the guy. And he went from being third team on the baseball team to jumping and being the varsity starting catcher. Again, the toughest position to do that, especially with another Division I catcher

sitting above him. Right? And then becomes the starting quarterback leads the entire DMV in passing until he gets injured. Like it's, there's so many conversations. I'm embarrassed of Patrick Riley. I hope he's like. We love that. Like we both love that. But I called you immediately after that first talk. And I said, something happened today and it'll change him. And we understood what it was. And now he's he's leading folks in the military. as you should be. Let me tell one more about Raleigh story.

The first time I got on the Elite 11th Circuit, I knew it was, you know, I didn't quite know what it was. There was at Redskins Park and I invited to work out there. So I told the quarterbacks I was working with the time, broadcast said, hey, I'm going to be here. You're welcome to come. And then after the event, make sure you come down and see me so I know, because I wouldn't be able to see out in the crowd. And so I didn't know who was going to come. but after it's over, I see Pat and his dad come walking down the hill. And we had a very short cut. His eyes were big.

He was really excited about what he saw. And he goes, do you think I can play in college? I said, yeah, if you want to. He said, do you think I could do this? And I go, yes. I said, but here's what it's going to take. And I, like, laid it out, re-ranked the schedule, getting up early, meeting me for school, everything, right?

Yes. And he was excited. I said, don't give me a decision. Now go home, talk to your parents. talk it over because this is going to involve a lot and then come back to me in 24 hours, tell me if you want to do it, because once you say you want to do it, we're doing it. And sure enough, he called me 24 hours later. Next thing I know, we're meeting before school and, you know, throwing five yards away.

And then, yeah, along with baseball and everything else, you know, this kid winds up with multiple options when it came to college. And his story of how he got a point of the West Point, if I told it, would bring me to tears. But it winds up playing there, and now he's leaving then. Yeah, so it's always more than just, it's more than, it's always about more than just football. Yeah, and to any parent or coach out there, again, starting conversations with, do I have your permission to tell you the truth? Right. That standard setter where truth exists and they will tell you what they need to tell you.

They want you, they want to be seen and it's pretty amazing to watch, right? So it's good to share that information. Folks, when it gets hairy, just sit down and talk. that generally will get things there. Without bringing any agenda to it, just simply talk. Go fishing. Sit on a boat. Sit on a bank and just talk.

And it really will work things out. Hey, Barry, what are we eating? We've got two simple things for you, real quick. I know people like the big salmon steaks, but sometimes you like to get the steak and kind of cut it into, I don't know, maybe n-and-and-a-two-inch kind of wide, however long you want it to be, little slivers. And I don't put a lot of stuff on it.

A little salt, little pepper. Don't even much oil because it's an oily fish. It just a fatty fish, I mean. For maybe five minutes on the skin side down. And then you can take it over and finish it, you know, however you want. But salmon with crispy skin over steam white rice. Maybe with a little, there's a thing called Furikaki, which is sounds kind of weird. but it's a good little sprinkle on your rice with a little serratia.

Wonderful delight. There's something about fish and rice that really go together. And if you've never had salmon with crispy skin, it's like a treat. You know, you're eating fish, you know, you're eating rice healthy for you, and then you get that little crackly, salty crunch of the skin. The other one is, this sounds like to cooking an egg. A way to cook, I can't get enough of. Take two eggs.

You can put a little salt pepper in and whip them up and do all that stuff. But in a skillet, if you, a cold skillet, put about a tablespoon of oil, olive oil, be fine, and put one clove of garlic. And you turn the heat up to medium, and you let that all come and, you know, come up to heat. And at a certain point, you'll notice that the garlic clove will start to get a little brown. Once that happens, take the garlic clove out and throw it out. what that's done is it's flavored your oil. Now, that oil go a little bit longer, and you'll start to see a little wisp of smoke on it.

And then you put the eggs in, and the eggs will cook in about 30 seconds. They puff up. You'll probably want to crank the heat down. You'll push the eggs to the middle, let the liquid keep cooking, and you'll probably at one point turn the heat down. The heat from the pan will finish cooking the egg.

And you get this fluffy, buttery, type of scrambled eggs. It's absolutely delicious. So those are two-fourty days. Salmon with crispy skin and probably a new way for some people to cook a scrambled egg. Dogg on it. Now we're hungry again. All right, B.T. Travel safe, coach him up. Man, love you, brother. All right, man. Thanks for having me. Bye-bye. Barry Thompson, Fairfax Football Academy. Putting in the work, maybe. Putting in the work on the field and in the kitchen.

And in the heart. His heart's not bad at all. We'll throw the break. Talk more. one when we come back. Download our app by searching 93.7 the ticket in your app store. You're listening to one-on-one with DP on 937 The Ticket and The Ticketfm.com.