1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - Barry Thompson on QB Play in overtime and what's required-September 25th, 2024

Episode Date: September 26, 2024

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I had to put my glasses on to get smart. I had to get smart. Gotta look smart when I talk to Barry. So, you know, I had to put my glasses on to do that. 402464, 64, 5, 685, you're going to be a part of what we're doing. Hit us up. And if you have questions, and I know that you do, feel free to ask them and feel free to be a part of what we're doing here. You could follow on all the streams.

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The autumn wind is a pirate, blustering in from sea with a rollicking song he speaks along, swaggering voicelessly. 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 bow and the trees all shake and quiver and quake as he robs them of their gold

the autumn win is a raider pillaging just for fun he'll knock you round and upside down and laugh when he's conquered and won glorious. The horse is galloping on that part, you know what? Oh, so good, so good. Coach Barry Thompson, Fairfax Football Academy, QB coach B.

T. Are you with me? Yes, I am. Too blessed to be stressed, baby. Hey, man. Getting better. Good and getting better. And everybody's doing what they should be doing.

I love it. Great day. Great day. We got to make shirts. Okay, yes. Let's go. What this says, how you doing it on the back? Yeah.

Good and getting better. That's a Bill Thompson special. That is a Bill Thompson special right there. Good and getting better. Yeah, we need those shirts. You talk about smiles. Imagine if everybody out there when they're asked them or, hey, how you doing? You respond with a big smile, good and getting better.

Good. You don't make a lot of people happy. Good and getting better. Yeah, it is. We went through this thing. I was talking to a group this morning. and I don't know why the message laid on me so heavy, but another shirt that I need,

that I need to make is, you good? You good. We good. Maybe we get Jay to call Greg Anthony for us. Right. Right, right, right. Well, we got printers now, so we can do this.

All right. It's because we good. Yeah. It's both a response and a, question that that that that lets us have a discussion yeah you know if i look at harrison harrison harrison we good yeah we're right right right and then but harrison we're going we're going coach him because no no hey harrison harrison if he says we good you say solid as a rock baby no no no no no no no i'm going to give it to him harrison as well i'm doing good all right dp we

good and getting better there we go i love it i love it then here's the other thing Another one, I heard two more. One is sometimes people will ask about your family and the good response is everybody's doing what they should be doing. Everybody's doing what they should be doing. When everybody's doing what they should be doing, that's a good thing. And here's another one, DP, you'll love this one. Say, say, how you doing? Say, I'm just handing out lollipops, baby.

Just hand that lollipop. You hand somebody a lollipop, they start to smile, say, I'm handing out lollipops today all day long. Good and good, good, good and getting better. Yes, sir. Barry, I need to get into your head as an offensive coordinator. Okay. I need to get into your head as an offensive coordinator. Mm-hmm.

And we will work from the premise that as an offensive coordinator, how often should your quarterback be your best offensive player or offensive weapon? Hmm. He should always be your best offensive mind. Mm-hmm. So whether that makes him your best offensive weapon, you know, I'll let somebody, but he should always be your best offensive mind.

And so if that makes him a weapon, then he should always be the weapon. Can he be your best decision? Your best choice. Yes, yeah. Yes, especially if he's my best offensive decision maker. Yes. So as an offensive coordinator in your most critical of situations,

the most important play call, in the entire game. The most important call. Right. What are your priorities, Barry Thompson? Let's say for the sake of discussion. Okay, let's start with one. I'm going to put you, how about this?

I'm going to put you at third and three. Doesn't matter. Doesn't matter. You put me at fourth and fourth and third. If it's a critical play, uh-huh. I want my very best players, involved in the play. One. Two, if it's possible in that situation, I want it to be a play that is

our identity. You know, if you're talking about third and short, but all plays are made better. You draw up a pattern with three receivers in it. And then you redraw that same pattern with three of your best receivers in it. It becomes a much better play. So, you know, outside of third and short, I want my best, the play is going to be good or better if I have my best players involved. Third and short, then it better be my identity play for whatever it is that we're doing, however we're running things. If it's, you know, I'm being facetious. But if we're running shoot, you know, it better be our best run and shoot play.

You know, if it's spread, it better be our best spread play. If we are a power team, it better be our best power with our best guards and everything else. So those are the two things I would look for in a tight situation. You've seen this Nebraska offense. What is their identity from your vantage? Right now, playing as a team and being solid right now. I give a little bit of a hint toward the defense that really, really, really plays hard. And I think that's the most that you can really ask from play.

players. You're going to have different levels of talents at different positions. But if you get a unit that consistently plays hard, that runs to the ball, that executes most of their assignments, I'm going to give a little bit of the edge to the defense, but I would say overall, you watch the offense, you watch the defense, they play clean as a unit. You know, you eliminate penalties. You don't turn the ball over. You play some defense. You run the ball. You are going to be in a whole lot of football games. Here's where it flows. That you're doing those things and you're in

a whole bunch of ball games. But you're not finishing. You're not finishing. We can say the identity of Nebraska football has been in recent years. And then this past week, consistently unable to finish. I think one possession games.

Yeah, but those are, yeah, but I wouldn't hang the things that had in the past. I wouldn't hang that on what I saw last week. Okay. What would you hang that on? I would start from last week and say that they're oh and one of those situations with this crew. Because I believe that this crew is. is going to learn from that situation. And one of the big things that you learn from coming up short

is how many other plays that were getable that could have kept you out of that situation to begin with. Another one of my famous ones I got from my dad, I don't know who originally said it, but he said the best way to avoid a bad situation is not to put yourself in one. In every game, there are five to six getable plays on either side that determined the dynamic of the outcome.

And I say that that way because you could have gotten beat 49 to nothing. But I promise you there's five to six plays on that nothing side that, you know, if you just did what you wanted to do, maybe you wind up with 21. In a close game, those five to six plays, three of them went the other way. I call them 50-50 plays. You could have made the play, didn't make the play, right? And so what you learn in those situations is I've got to execute everything because I don't know which play is going to make the difference. And that's what that team should really learn from that.

Not hang up so much on what happened in the last play or that you came up short, but go back and look at the whole tape. What opportunities did we miss in the first quarter, the second quarter, the third quarter? How do we finish the second quarter? How do we finish the third quarter, right? you know, was there a coverage call? Was there a blocking assignment that we missed? Worry about those things. Get those things tight and the end of games will take care of themselves.

So I'm going to call this crew 0-1-1 until they prove me wrong. In that, looking at how offensive players call plays, how coordinators call plays, down and distance does matter, right? Yeah, fair to say, down and distance matters. Absolutely. If you identify yourself as a physical offense, physical, physical, and you're in a tie ball game, fourth quarter, three minutes left. You have the ball, the opponent, inside the other, the opponent's 25-yard line, third and three. Right.

From your mindset, do you attack this? And there's several ways to attack it, right? Right, right. One, it could be with your personality and profile. Right. Which if you're a spread team, as you said, you're a spread team, you do spread team thing. That's what we're going to do. If you're a power team, you do power thing.

If you're a physical team, you do physical. Right. Whatever you do, Barry, are you choosing to manage the situation and circumstance, or are you going to do the easiest thing for you to do most often? Well, like I said, you want to do something always that you do well. So let's take the example that you're a power running team. And you get into that situation and you feel that, hey, maybe as a play call that this, you know, they're going to overload. We're going to get too many.

We can't get it. The constraint play is what should come into to play, which is you see this on the goal line all the time, make a great example. So we'll see a goal line. Sometimes they'll line up in 13 personality. everybody's foot to foot, the defense knows exactly what's going to go on, right? And then we see it maybe three or four times over four weeks in the NFL. Everybody knows the play that's coming. They're faking the run, and then they throw to a tackle that reported or a tight end that leaked out.

And they all say, hey, you got to do your job. You're a man. Keep your eyes, right? It always happens. So if I'm a power team and I'm in that situation, I feel that I'm going to be outnumbered. What I want to do is something that builds off that power structure to give me what I want if I'm going to take a chance and not run power. That particular goal line play is a good example. What I don't want to do if I'm a power team is suddenly go five wide.

And then, you know, because I think I can get them. That's just not in my personality. And it's hard to, I think, for an offense to be that diverse, to be able to execute five wide. and power running, you know, all in the same span equally. You've got to make some choices when you get down there. And that's where you get back to that identity thing. So it doesn't have be power if you're running power, but it can be play action off of power.

It could be a, was it, which John Gooden's famous play? Something, something, why? Banana. Yeah. Why banana? That fits, right? Now you've got them in a pinch. They either going to knuckle up and get this power,

or I'm going to give you some play action, you know, pass protection, my guy's going to leak out, and I'm going to dump it to them. So those two things fit together. But if your power and now you're suddenly going quads or something like that, you know, I think it's a little riskier. Isn't that the thing, though, Barry, that Gruden's go-to play has been practiced, repetitioned so much that it's almost impossible to fail at running it? Yeah.

You know what? Like every often recorder I know word, or the plug nickel. Right. Has put, has run this, they have a play. Right. That they've run so much and so often that it's really tough, almost impossible. It is the layup.

Right. It's almost impossible for a team to defend. Right. There are certain, certain concepts that just put almost all defenses in bind. and if you combine them with what you're doing and run, because you've got to remember, defenses have to basically cheat, right, to stop things. I mean, they don't play things honestly. They're playing towards something, and they know what they're giving up,

and they're getting better. Like I've said many times with match quarters and things like that, at limiting the tight fronts and taking things away and limiting where you're going to go or narrowing your attack. but on that thought, you know, it's something that hit me the other day. When you look at the NFL, here you go, D.P. You look at the NFL. Every week that you look at the NFL, there's not a single play or a single defense that,

let's say there's not a single offensive play that there's a defense that doesn't know the play. Like they know. Like they know what players are going to be run. And the offense knows exactly what defense is going to be run. And still, although they all know each other, We get these fantastic plays. Why Banana is still executed, right? Concepts like dagger,

sale still executed, right? Even Smash, Hank, you know, those Yankee, those things are still executed, even though everybody knows those plays, right? It's not a surprise for anybody that, what anybody runs in the NFL on any Sunday.

And still we see this level of execution out of those guys. It's, I don't know, just something crossed my mind. Well, but here's the thing. There's so many things, and we often say that coaches coach to their personality. And they play call to their personality. And that sometimes, sometimes that gambler thing, we know a lot of offensive or defensive coordinators that are gamblers.

Like that's just who they are. And you understand that, okay, I can ride with this because they're going to have some success with it. And there are also going to be times when the gambler makes your head hurt. Yes, exactly. Because they won't go through. Another case and point, Barry Thompson. I know that you're in offense.

I know you played safety in college. I did. You are a quarterback at heart. Yep. So, Barry Thompson, it is overtime. And you win the toss. Okay. Barry Thompson, what are you doing?

What are you doing, Barry Thompson? We're taking the ball. We're taking the ball. Listen, this is taking the ball. Let's go down score and go home. Right. Like, I don't. Yeah.

I don't. The reactive side of it makes my head hurt. Yeah. Because it says that I need to, and you can tell me, again, the culture of the personality of the team. Right. Right. And that if we are defense first, right, there are people that are just like, okay. But to me, if I've got.

Tom Brady. If I've got Patrick Mahomes, if I've got Lamar Jackson, if I've got, there are some quarterbacks. If my quarterback is a dude, a dude. Yeah. I've built my whole team around him.

Yeah. He's a dude. I'm sorry. I don't want that dude standing on the sideline watching somebody put up a seven and forcing his hand. Right. I want him to be the, I want him to be the thermostat and the thermostat. It's an interesting thought process because whether you go first or go last,

you still are going to have to stop somebody, right? Usually I'm a college overtime now, right? So college over time, you're still going to have to stop somebody. Pro over time, I definitely want the ball. I want to go down and score because even under the new rules, a score or touchdown, that's the end of the game, right? Yeah. So I want that.

And you think about the college thing, you know, it's like, like, well, we'll have it last or whatever. I don't know. I mean, I'm not drawing that paycheck, but I just know if you give me a chance to go score, I want to score, and I do know that in overtime, you have to stop somebody. I try to figure out how any offensive coordinator

who has a say-so would okay somebody else having the ball first. Well, you said, You said some big words there, who has a say-so. Who has a say-so? I've been on those phones before. Yes, we, yes, we have. From a certain set of headphones, there's some things that come up on those phones.

And, you know, okay, boss, here we go. You know? But that's why I asked you the question, because you've been on those sidelines and in those boots and on those headphones. And not what, here's the other thing. I'll ask you this and Harrison watch this. I'll ask you a question, Barry.

You're smiling too much, D.P. How many staffs have you been on where you practice what was going to happen if you went to overtime? Did you have a play call list for when you go to overtime offensively, defensively? Did you know who was going to get the ball first? Did you know who, what your plays, what the five plays or four plays you were going to run in overtime? How many staffs have you been on where those things are known before the opening kickoff? Exactly three. And I have three state champions.

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. And I have three state championship rings. Brough! Louder for the people in the back. Wait, one more time. Exactly three, and I have three state championship rings. Boy, bye. Listen, we're going to go throw it a break.

They come back. BT. Are you with me? Barry Thompson, one-on-one, 93-7 the ticket. Welcome back one-on-one. D.P., Barry Thompson, Harrison, Harrison, Arons, carrying you through. We got another full night, ticket weeknights. Oh, man.

Don't plan our... Kendall Lanier comes on. She's got a special guest. We do. We do, in fact, got Emma Spence. She's got an Olympic gymnast here with the Huskers, Emma Spence, who has her own show here on Sundays on the ticket. Got a good night, Malone Center. Got a full night.

So good stuff all the way around. Barry Thompson, we're talking about it. And there's so much, there's so much juice to the squeeze. And I'm asking this thing. thing, right? That overtime happens, Barry Thompson. You're the coordinator. You're the coordinator. Overtime happens.

Are you running new plays? Or are you running plays that have worked in overtime? You're running a combination of the plays that have worked. And you will have one or two that you're kind of holding in your pocket a little bit. Maybe one or two, and maybe it's a two-point play. Usually your two-point plays are ones that you can kind of duplicate and have in your overtime.

And that is if that wild gambler's not in the booth that day. So you're running things at work. They're defense structures, their defensive structure. You're looking at plays that you've had success with. This is where you need that good decision maker, right? Because you can call a good play and they're ready for it, right? They've made an adjustment. And so now your decision maker has to get you to the right spot.

That's what you're really relying on, your execution and your decision maker. And then you have one or two plays that you may have carried over. It may be a two-point play that you reuse it and may have a way of dressing it up. But you're not making any things up in that moment. You hear who you is. Well, there's the thinking like-minded, and a part of our relationship was always we thought as a quarterback receiver, we thought, and okay, what can I get the receiver group to be for Barry's quarterbacks

and Barry's quarterbacks to those receivers? What can they do? Hey, where can we get to the ball that this will work? Or what can we attack? It was mutual thought that after four quarters of play, me as receiver and you will meet at the end horn of the fourth quarter, end of regulation before we take the field in overtime. And what we will process is four quarters of resume intake.

Yeah. Hey, B, you know what where the wins are. Yes. I know where the wins are. Yeah, the question is to your quarterback and receiver, hey, what do you like? What do you like? Like, oh. Yeah, what do you like?

Like you have. Yeah. And again, you're talking about a 25-yard field. Uh-huh. that I literally could say to Barry, press coverage, fade, throw it two yards inside and two yards away from the pylon.

Yep. And if they're in release coverage, I'm going to run the slant. I'll box him out. We'll take the seven. He's got to make a tackle an open field against me. We like the odds of it.

And then if we have to go to play two, it's the same literally same discussion and we don't even have to talk about it right it's what you like what do you like because Barry knows hey listen we ran play one if we ran the slam play one

and he's playing the same way he's going to jump that we'll just call sluggo and yeah Barry will throw Peter green or overtime overtime I'll have you go slain out

because he'll dive down on the cut yeah there we go we'll run that bench right, we'll run. Look, we, we, we, I don't understand how at this level, you haven't reached that level of high repetition, high communication, high structure. Yeah. Yeah, there's some knowledge. Now, the guys, you know, the defenses that they face now, you know, can be a little more complicated, but you're, you're right. It does, the simplicity is, what do you like? What's good? Right. That, that's it.

I mean, you've gotten near four quarters, so something's been good. What do you like? What's good? And that's what you ride with in that moment. Like I said, you get in those moments, you is who you is, right? This is nutcracking time, right? They know where you have to go. There's no big field.

We're in a box altogether, right? Everybody knows there's no halftime. There's no, you know, this is it. You know, this. So, yeah, over time is pretty interesting thing. Yeah, there should be timing. the quarterback position has evolved. Yes.

And that at every level, every single level of football play in America, young quarterbacks or quarterbacks in full are more prepared. Yes. Or whatever is going to be thrown at them. You and I were talking at the number, the percentage numbers, yes. That young quarterbacks are getting in this day and

And you can talk about, we talk about Dylan Riola, we can talk about Jaden Daniels, we can talk about all the different things, right? That quarterbacks are better coached and better prepared. Is that a fair statement? Yeah, it is. It's that in the offensive structure. Some years ago, I guess six, seven, eight years ago, however long it was. And I'm going to credit Trent Dilfer in the lead 11. They had a format at the time that Trent put together called a super regional.

And the idea was at Ohio State. And the idea was that they, as they tour the country, they were used to kind of keep it in their mind, like who were the best guys were, and then inviting them to this final. But this year, they said, you know what? We want to keep track of all the guys and have them all in one place. And they did that, and they called it a super regional. Now, the other thing they did behind that is they had an open invite to some of the best,

what they thought some of the top quarterback trainers in the United States were. There's a book called Bruce Feldman, wrote the book. I forget the title. Modern QB, Bruce Feldman wrote it. And in that opening chapter, he describes that auditorium where all those quarterback coaches were. And there was a message from him and Steve Stenstrom, who went to Stanford, they played for the Niners for a little bit,

about how all these quarterback coaches should start to work together and that together they could elevate the position. And in my mind, that's kind of an origin. story of what I've seen over the last five or six years. I was looking at, on the quarterback that I'm working with at W.L, this is his very first year as a varsity quarterback. And through four games, he's around 1,000 yards, 10, 10 touchdowns. But his completion percentage is 79%.

And then I looked, if you look on the max preps in Virginia, the top 10 for the quarterbacks are mine, and three of the four are 70% or higher. and there's others on that list. And so you just look at that versus the old adage, well, you know, when you throw the ball, there's three things that could happen and two over them back. Well, you know, it has to do with the high percentage passes that throwing the screens and little things like that, that adds up.

But it also, there are times when they're going down field and they're hitting these passes that also goes to the offensive structures that have come into play, right? that guys are getting better about making decisions, understanding their offense, understanding the defense. And when you see a completion percentage at high, then it naturally goes that in practice,

there's times in high school fields where the ball's not hitting the ground very much. And it is really changing things to be able to execute at that level or to pick among a broader spectrum of guys who can execute at that level. It's significant. Is it the number of throws and things that young quarterbacks are seeing in practice and in drills that makes it easier and more convenient for them going into live fire, right?

You've seen it before. You've had these conversations. What are you looking for? Where are your eyes? What's your footwork? Exactly what are you trying to accomplish with it? I think that's showing up in young. quarterback play in the NFL.

Brock Purdy was a great example. Jaydon Daniels Monday night was every example. And listen, we've talked about that throw and catch. Play call, throw, catch. That if you were to draw a playbook for identifying down-and-distance situation circumstance, then to have a quarterback that knows how much time he has and what he needs to do with that football. Right.

And then have a receiver. Understand time. Understand I don't have all day. I got to get there. Where the ball is going to be placed. Keep separation in space and then attack the dang ball and finish the play. Yeah, it takes a lot to complete a pass. I mean, and we're skipping the pass protection part of it.

But for a quarterback from that perspective, there are about two types of deep balls that a quarterback will, one you see in the combine, and they ask the quarterbacks to throw the receiver from the top of the numbers to the bottom of numbers. So that's one of the two passes. The first one is, which they don't need to see them do, I think they do it, is keep them on the top of the numbers. That first pass is when your receiver has smoked a DB, you've got to get the ball up in the air and let your guy go run and go get it because you don't want to slow him down. The second one is where the defensive back is stride for stride for your guy, but you see their space to the right or left,

and you move him from the top of the numbers to the bottom of the numbers. That's all well and good. But from the quarterback's perspective, what he has to do, he not only has to be able to execute those throws consistently just on their own, but he has to instinctively by processing what the defender's doing or how he's defending instantaneously throw the right ball. Now, on the receiver end, as you know, the receiver, no matter where he is, has to set a boundary.

He can't be pushed or squeezed out, right? And then at the pro level, he has to have dead eyes and he has to have late hands and to catch the ball. And so when you watch that play, all of that was executed, right? You barely saw the hands go up, right? The defender just had no, you're looking in at the defensive back. I mean, the receiver, and you're looking for a throwing cue. Normally, the eyes will dilate, right?

They'll get bigger. The hands will go up, and you know that's your cue. They either play through his hands or turn back and go. And when you watch that play over and over again, that defensive back had no problem because their throw was executed right. The route was run right, and the guy had dead eyes and slow hands. It was just a beautiful play. And on command.

Beautiful. Great finish. Yeah, on command. Great finish. Great finish all the way around. BT, we'll throw the break when we'll come back. We'll ask you that question. You know where we're going with it. We need to know cooking with the coach.

What are you cooking? We'll find that out here. One on one with Barry Thompson. Welcome back, final segment. And we've got a long weeknight for you. So middle of the week, we'll take you deep into the night. Got some really cool new programming next week. Kyle Perry was back with Uncut, and he'll be five nights a week.

good to have the South Paul and a left-hander, the captain, joining us, working on some other projects too. And, of course, next week, the teammates have been to our on Tuesdays. We'll take place Des Moines and Ashton, Honor. We'll get us through. It's good times around here and lots going on. It's Purdue Week and all those things. It's good stuff.

Bolemakers. Yeah, I've got to get the bowlermakers. But let me ask the question, Barry Thompson. cooking. Well, listen, there are a gazillion ways to make chili, and anybody has a recipe out there. If you serve it to me, I'll eat it. But there is only one way to make what's called a bowl of red. And literally, the term chili concarney literally means chili with meat. It doesn't mean anything else. And so I made a bowl of red. And it's a real simple dish. It's a real great dish. You get three or four pounds of your meat, you know, Chuck, roast, you can do brisket if you want or you have game meat.

And then you're going to take some combination of dried chilies. I used Guahillo and ancho chilies. You have to deseed them. You toast them a little bit and then you're going to rehydrate them. And while it's rehydrating, you're going to make, I don't know, like a slurry, a kind of a blonde rue. You'll add a little bit of chicken stock to that. And then those dehydrated chilies go into a blender along with that, that root thing that

you made and you blend it up to it's really smooth. You brown your meat and then, you know, it may pour off some of the fat, put the meat back in. You put that blended chili sauce in. You add a seasoning blend, pretty basic, you know, salt, garlic powder, onion powder, you know, pepper, a couple bouillon cu's, saison packet, whatever you want, that goes in. And you bring it up to a bowl, cut it down to a simmer about an hour. And then after about an hour, another seasoning spice you'll put in or is cumin and a little bit of Mexican oregano. Regular regino is okay. Put that in.

Let it go for 45 minutes. And it is a delicious, a delicious bowl of what they call red. And if you think about how people ate off a check wagon back in the day, you know, there weren't any tomatoes, right? You had dried fruits. You had some meat. You had some flour. You had some salt.

And so I had a Texas bowl of red. It's really good. If you love beef and you love the complexity. of chilies and what they can do. And you can adjust your heat level. These chilies aren't hot chilies. These are subtle, you know, complex. And I'm sure Mr. Myers thinking about a great wine to go with it.

And before we go, if you indulge me, I've got a shout out for a couple of QVs. But that's what we're eating. Bowl of Red, Texas Red. We just shared pictures of it at 937 the ticket. And Harrison, if you would, each week, we want to clip Barry's cooking with coach. We can make a full playlist. Yeah, we can do that. Let's get your shoutouts in, Barry, Tom.

Yeah, just the quarterbacks had gotten off a great start. Shout out to Ethan Ross down in Averyt. He was ODAQBarrs player of the week. Presley Egbers was an offensive player of the week in the Centennial Conference. Charles Mutter threw for 500 yards. They opened one. They're opener down to Emory and Henry. And then Max Preps did a thing where they did a map.

And they wanted to know where FBS quarterbacks came from. and, you know, all respect to California, Texas, and Florida. But Virginia was tied for eighth with Alabama with four quarterbacks, and two of those quarterbacks are mine. I want to shout out to Grant Wilson at ODU and a shout out to Billy Edwards at University of Maryland. And then I need to give a shout out to my other FBS quarterbacks, Noah Kim at Coastal, Tony Musket at UVA, and Daniel Oposky at Delaware.

So I just wanted to, I think those guys deserve some mention. So thanks for letting me do it. No, those are the guys. I mean, Billy Edwards, listen, Billy Edwards, Jr. Yes, sir. Let's give that man his props for what he's doing with the Terps. I talked to Johnny Holliday, and that was, he was kind of describing the trajectory and the growth of Billy Edwards and how important it was.

Again, coming in after Tango Violoa at Maryland in his run, the expectations were kind of wavering and fluid and then have him come in, win the job, establish himself, and then have the type of success he's having in the early season. Well done. I mean, you see the work, and I think that's the big part. Yeah. Is you get to see the work. Yeah. You get to see, you know what, he's not just showing up on prepare. He's not just slinging it. He's making impressive decisions. He's being smart with the ball. And he's being athletic. And listen, I don't know how much of the work is put your foot in the ground to move the chains. But all of your quarterbacks seem to have that capability.

Yeah, they are. Yeah, and we got a third section. I want to give a big shout out. We talk about this all time. Billy is an outstanding young man. I'll just give a sample. I won't embarrass him, but I went over to watch a practice.

And it was one of those off days' concerts. They were fitting a practice in. They had to go to the Ravens game. And their schedules are full, TikTok, tick-tock. And I was expecting just to, get away from him. Hey, coach, thanks for coming. He came over and we talked a little bit about what he saw, what was going on in the session, stayed with me. And then I'm sure he's going to leave

at that point, right? And then he says, I'll walk you out. And as we're walking out, we're going up the elevator, we get off one of the elevators, and I see a big graphic. And I kind of teasingly say, hey, Billy, you need one of those. He says, get back on the elevator, take me up the stairs. So he took me up to the coach's office, right, where they bring all the recruits. And I don't want to embarrass him, but there's a big graphic of him up there from the Music City Bowl. And then he just didn't say goodbye. Walk me down to the landing, you know, the platform. Just, I'm so proud and all my guys, Lopovsky's like that, Noah's like that. Just really proud. They can play football, but man, there's some outstanding human beings. But you and I both know that is on purpose. Yeah.

That is on purpose. That's part of why people bring their young people to you, is that, not only are they going to get better on the field, they're absolutely going to get better off the field. And that's why we love you, BT. Appreciate your kind, sir. Thank you. That's Barry Thompson one-on-one. We'll do it again next week.

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