1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - Barry Thompson (Fairfax Football Academy): July 21st, 10am

Episode Date: July 21, 2022

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It's time to go one-on-one with D.P. Coming at you live from the couple Chevrolet GMC Studios. Here is your host, Derek Pearson. Brought you by Mary Ellen's Food for the Soul on 93-7-the-ticket and the ticketfm.com. Welcome to it on a Thursday. One-on-one, 93-7 the ticket. I am DP. Thank you guys for hanging out with us on a Thursday for this hour of sports radio.

Of course, the folks from Mary Alam's food for the soul, had dinner last night, had the hot buttered wings, yes, and the brisket, and the collard greens and the mac and cheese. And then we had a little meeting for an event that's coming up that we'll announce probably later this week with Charles Phillips, something we're going to do at Mary Ellen's, September 7th. evening we're going to do is have a pretty exceptional evening down at mary ellens in their in their event room looking forward to that but yeah the food was exceptional as always thank you charles for what you do this hour brought to you by the folks from ambitious electric Joe davis and company making sure that we can have Barry Thompson on each week for the hour so we can kind of feed our souls and have a better grasp for what's going on in this space breaking news before we get to Barry Thompson.

Nebraska Athletics announces that the Nebraska women's basketball team will tip off its 2022-23 regular season schedule by taking on Omaha at Pinnacle Bank Arena. Monday, November 7th, the game between the Huskers and the Mavs expect to tip off at noon. Noon. A little bit of prep rally that morning. You can do that. Last season, the PEP rally welcomed morning. 1,500 middle grade students from nearby 30 school districts across the state of Nebraska.

The event, which has been co-sponsored. School Hall of Fame features positive messages from Husker student, athletes, coaches, and athletic administrators. That's November 7 noon. Huskers Women's Basketball tips off against Omaha. How about that? How about that? We in business. We have a schedule.

We can make it happen. We can make it happen. looking forward to it after successful season last year. Let's see what they do with, you know, you got returning, five returning starters. Five returning starters from a team that made it to the tournament. So lock that down. Put it in Sharpie, November 7. No.

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Yes. It's time. Let's bring him in. Courtesy Ambition Electric, Joe Davis and Company. This is Barry Thompson, Fairfax Football Academy. BT. What up? What up?

B.T. What up, B.T. It was happening with you, Barry Thompson. My QB was good, brother. It's all good on the wood. Hey, man. Football season, man. How about that?

How about that? Because it was, like, we're just, you ready for this? We're just a few weeks from the Hall of Fame game. That's right. Yeah. Like, we're just a few weeks from the Hall of Fame game. It is on like Donkey Kong. Like, I'm thrilled for this.

It's that time, right? So this year, I don't know. I don't know what, what, what, whether you're interested or not, Barry Thompson. But it appears that there's a team called the Las Vegas Raiders who will play in the Hall of Fame game. There we go. Right where they belong.

You know, they, and with it, Thanksgiving, they always have Detroit and who else. Detroit and the Bears or something like that. Hall of thing game in my mind should be the Los Angeles versus whoever comes. You know, you know. I'm not even mad at. I'm not even mad at that. That is an August 4th kickoff between the Raiders and Jaguar.

So we're just weeks away from having football. And then, you know, look, the Huskers go to camp next week. TikTok, babe. Right? So this week, right, Barry, let's go through it. That you've done all the all-season program and reprogramming, right? That's fair to say. say that's what the off season should be, right?

Some people call it off season. You call it improvement season. I love that. Absolutely. But what should have been accomplished? Let's talk about Casey Thompson. What should have been accomplished with Casey Thompson as the quarterback of this football team going into this week where they get to recharge and reboot? What should have happened for a new quarterback in a big time program?

Yeah, with all the fans there, he should have put a chokehold on the position. Yeah. And, I mean, that should have been his mindset coming in. You compare or contrast, you know, when Joe Burroughs had to leave, not to, but when Joe left Ohio State, he went down to LSU and he put a chokehold on it. And, you know, whatever that is, I think I was talking to, I think Jay was asking, I thought it was a pretty good question. you know, what, or Medved Manrico, like, what happens with these guys? They're in one place, and they go another place, and they're splashing.

And what I said to them, I said, it's sometimes you got to consider that it's a situation that makes them. So as good as they are, they're at one situation. They think that's good enough. And then they learn that it's not, and they get determined that that's never going to happen to me again. I'm not going to be in a Confederate situation again. It's going to be mine. I'm going to take it over and do everything I need to do. I'm going to do things I didn't do,

and I'm going to find out things that I didn't know I need to do, but I'm going to do them. And so that's what should have been accomplished. And that's what you'd want out of any Nebraska quarterback quarterback heading into a season, an improvement season where it's not really clear. You want one of them to step up and say, no, this is mine, that I'm going to do this.

I'm going to help Nebraska win. I'm going to be the guy. I'm going to be the leader. I'm going to know everything I need to know, and I'm going to execute it on the daily basis. That's what you want to do. So Barry, here's the thing. So if you come from Texas, right?

Highly coveted, highly recruited to come to Lincoln, Nebraska. And then in a space where your family knows about the Nebraska program from the Oklahoma perspective. Dad was a part of this rivalry. He understands it. and everything else. If you're Casey Thompson and you've had 30 touchdowns, nine interceptions in the two, you know, the season and a half that you played in, what is the personal expectation for a quarterback? Is it based on wins?

Is it based on production? Is it based on efficiency, effectiveness? What's the priority? What is priority one for Casey Thompson? and as he spends the week getting ready for camp. All of it. Everything you just said. Yeah.

I mean, they all go hand in hand. You want production. You want efficiency. You want leadership, right? You want to win. And so it's, yeah, you can separate them out, you know, if you use tweezers, but that is the job description, right? For somebody who's going to be the guy. Right.

he has all that and he does it on a consistent, you know, a consistent enough basis. Nobody's perfect. You know, you're going to throw up tick. You're going to miss a reed. You're going to, you know, whatever it is, you know, but it's consistent enough in all of those areas that, you know, you say this is a guy. How important is it for the quarterback to be on your board of direction? He asked me. He's the weather vane.

the canary. You know, he's setting the course. I mean, ideally that's the case. Not all quarterbacks are like that. And teams, they get their personality from different areas of the locker room at times. But there's no question at that position. You still have to, you still have to really lead a team. You have to meet those minimum requirements. You may not be the guy who, with a stair, can kind of tighten somebody up.

Maybe there's somebody else on the team that does that. But you still have to have the leadership capability. You have to be a guy they can count on the guy they believe in. We talked about this before. All of it adds up to what you want with a quarterback at a minimum is you want him to be the type of player in person that players want to play with. And then if you're lucky, you get the type of guy that players want to play for. So until that first standard's met, you don't really have everything that you need. You know, and that is made up of the leadership, the execution, the efficiency.

There's so many judgment points at the quarterback position. I'm just working with some young guys today, and we just, just before we got on with you, there was a little blitz look, right? And, you know, in that blitz look, there were, there were answers. form, but they didn't, they're still at the point where they're just kind of remembering stuff, right? But there's answers for them, and as I'm explaining the answers and how to get to them, right, it was a lot of information.

Now, we're going to fill it and make sure they get it right, but then once that opens up for them, there were still some judgment form. So there were too easy, you know, kind of hot routes for them, but there was a deeper route that was a free access route. So then, you know, how does he use the judge? does he just take the easy thing or does he, you know, how does he stand in there for a little bit longer to get the deeper throw? And when does he do it? You know, so, and at quarterback position, if he goes for the deeper one, it's incomplete, everybody's yelling, hey, go, why do you throw here?

Yiyahmi? Or if he throws there, there's a pattern that broke up in the middle and they said, why did you throw that guy? Well, he has to know how to get to that guy. In this case, he had a protection issue in his face. He was really protected from behind. So as a young guy, he's got to understand, hey, just take a step or two toward the protected side. That'll increase the distance. The defender needs to run.

That'll get time for the shallow to clear. Now, you know, this is his sophomore quarterback, right? Right, right, right. And we're not talking down. This is time and score. Yeah. Because if we talk that, maybe it's third and long, and he has to figure out a way to get the free access longer route. which is another discussion.

And he has to know when to do that. So there's a lot involved in that position, and that's why there's so many, so few guys who do it really well. And the work and the commitment to being in that type of quarterback, that's something that's just not for everybody. There's depth, there's so much depth to it because you're talking about a Nebraska team

where Scott Frost likes to have hands on the scheme, the play calling, et cetera, has spoken to how this is going to work. Mark Whipple was brought in to literally change the offense and change some of the tendencies of this football team. And then Mickey Joseph, who is the passing game coordinator. Right? And then beneath that, there's Casey Thompson taking input from three,

strong, independent thinking, different thinking, offensive minds. How do you get to a place where it's one voice, one sound? We hope that those three had long, deep philosophical discussions. And out of those discussions, not only came in agreement, but agreement as to who was going to speak. out of those three, who have the authority to coach the offense? You can give titles, I think I've mentioned this before, but in this coaching thing, you can give titles all over the place.

You can give salaries and you can have hierarchies and charts and everything else. But who in that group has the authority to coach that football team? And that is extremely important because that person will set the toning direction for what's going to happen. If it gets diffused, it gets confused. And that's not what you want on the football field. So hopefully they worked that out, got a place by the lake or got on a fishing boat or in a hotel room and had some adult beverages and drew on napkins and charts

and talked and they known each other through somebody. Hopefully that's worked out. one of the things that on the sidelines that I noticed the quarterback just naturally gets a lot of chirping in his year or hey that was good or you know just a lot of stuff and the quarterback has to learn over time what to politely block out listen to and knowledge but you know not let it sink in

and what to pay attention to that task is made easier and that's why if anybody ever wondered that's why a lot of times you'll see in the pros a quarterback will go to the bench, and he won't be around anybody. He needs a little bit of time to collect his thoughts. He doesn't necessarily need to stay focused on his task. And you can see quite the opposite of that on many, many sidelines.

And we're talking to Barry Thompson in the Fairfax Football Academy, and I smiled as you were breaking it down because it took me back to. So we can identify a good coaching staff by its community. ability to communicate under duress and a bad coaching staff by its inability to communicate at the highest level, efficient level under duress. So Barry and I were on a coaching staff, and he was the quarterback's coach, was the offensive coordinator, but there was a head coach who wanted that responsibility rather than the work that was attached to it.

So Barry and I would get together and we would game plan and we knew how we wanted to attack, what their weaknesses were. but we had a head coach who would, he actually said this to it, and Barry can verify it. He said, I don't want you guys talking to me during the game because you confuse me. I can only think to myself. I can't hear you and then call to play. And it happens way too often on bad teams, on bad coaching staffs. Yeah.

And so Barry and I, we get unpaid, so the we could communicate with our players because we had to train them all week. And the other part of it was Barry and I would work together all week long on a game playing scheme and otherwise. The head coach never once sat in with me and Barry to go over what we were teaching our skill position players. And then on game day, he would call plays with the wrong personnel on the field and go, well, why didn't that work?

Well, you ran a set with two receivers. We need three. Oh, why didn't you tell me? Well, you told me not to tell you. Barry, is all of that true or not? You're making my stomach hurt. You make my stomach curse. I came on here.

I was all happy. It's a little sour thing in my stomach. Yeah, no, it can happen. You know, there's all kinds of things that can kind of lead to this function. You know, there's a couple of teams where I got in, Bob, and they wingtie teams. and just to tell you, you know, nothing about Wing-T, you know, I'm not cracking it, but from what we do, in both instances, guys wanted to be able to throw the ball. Well, I'll take you a step lower.

So I was at one school, and they brought me in because they just wanted to pass a little bit more, and it was fine. It was never going to be five-wad. I understood that. So I start, you know, taking the receivers to start running through stuff, and then we get into a team thing. I thought I taught everybody, and it would look like not as quite as good as it should have been. And then it took me about two times of doing that, and I realized I never had all the receivers

because of the weight team, the way it functions, right? Those wings that you're going to ask them to run, and since the run is a priority, those guys are over there while you're, quote, on the practice sheet, you know, doing stuff for the passing it. So I said to the coach, I said, I need to, these guys. I need those two guys. You're serious about this. I need those guys over here when we're doing

that stuff. And it took a lot to get it. So there's a lot of things that can lead this function least of which the communication between coaches. But it works best. Football works best when you have total

alignment, right? Total alignment where everybody agrees which direction it's headed and everybody's pushing in that direction. It works, it's less, it's suboptimal when you don't have that. Yeah,

like there's so many simple things that get missed. Yeah. Right? That, and my, this, as I look towards a Nebraska season, as they go to camp, one of the things that stands out to me

is going to be this. The person whose voice is loud, and Casey Thompson's head controls the success of Nebraska's offense, right? And that can be the guy playing behind him or the guy competing with him. That can be the receivers. That can be the offensive line that's in front of him, right? That could be the offensive coordinator or it could be the passing coordinator or it could be the head coach.

Right? Like, Barry, right? Come on. I know, I know. Listen, I'm hoping for all the Nebraska fans out there because they want this and they deserve this. You support, your loyalty, the way that you and forever in a day have supported that team. It is my hope that there's one voice on his head

and it's telling him exactly how to operate and setting the expectations for everybody behind them to operate the same way. Because it is tough to really value how important it is just to be able to move the chains on a consistent basis. That is, like literally get a first down. It's only 10 yards, but man, is it tough when you're inconsistent in some areas. And so if you have a decision maker, a couple guys you can catch the ball, maybe one or two guys you can do something with the ball after they catch it, run the ball, play some sound defense. You've got a competitive team. And, you know, competitive teams start to build confidence.

And they start to glue together even tighter. And those type of teams are teams that wind up beating the so-called talented team on paper. Everybody out there, raise your hand. If you've ever had a team that had all the talent in the world or seen a team or cheered for a team, and that team didn't do exactly what you thought they were capable of doing. And the reason for it is they were probably knocked off by a bunch of guys who were just, you didn't even know the names of. They weren't that spectacular, but they beat the square.

that you were looking at. That's how it gets done. And these leadership positions, backer, safety, you know, quarterback, those things that involve, you know,

right up the middle, you have leadership in that position, in those positions, man, you've got a chance to go win some football games. You really do. That's the hope,

and that's why I wanted to talk about it. We'll go ahead. We'll throw a break. We'll come back. We'll talk about the things that Casey Tiles, Thompson is going to need around him. We'll talk about what he wants from three receivers, two receivers and three receivers on the field.

And then maybe some protection talk. As a quarterback yourself, what you need and want and demand around you so that you can do your job at its highest level. That's Barry Thompson. We'll be right back to one-on-one. Download our app by searching 93.7 the ticket in your app store. You're listening to One-on-One with DP. 377 the ticket and the ticketfm.com.