1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - Barry Thompson Spring Game thoughts: April 14th, 10:25am

Episode Date: April 14, 2022

Route concepts that the Huskers runOL, how did they look?Why not show off Casey Thompson during the two-hand touch period of the game?Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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We can get that done. Let's bring in Barry Thompson, Fairfax Football Academy, and we were talking about concepts, schemes, and the skill sets that the talent, within those schemes. We noticed in one of those, and Anthony Grant, the young man from TCU, they put him in the back field, they run him basically on the slow swing.

He ends up in kind of a mesh concept with a cross-her and a tight-income in the opposite direction, putting the linebackers under duress. My favorite things that happen because in order for quarterbacks to throw where they want to on the other third is that they have to have some threat in the middle.

And it seems like Mickey Joseph and Mark Whippell have concepts that are going to put linebackers under duress and give Casey Thompson some easy throws to make right in his face in front of a clean pocket. So with that, Barry Thompson, running back swings out

is there enough time? Does protection play a big part in whether you could run that concept? Because if they can run that concept regularly, Big Ten defense is going to be miserable because it's really difficult to cover

running back coming out of the back. backfield, tight-end crossing, and they've cleared on the two extremes. How does this work? Well, you know, in certain play designs like that one, if they came with an all-out blitz, he has two areas where he can go with the ball right away. So sometimes as a quarterback, you know, there's a system out there, Dub Jenkins. He has a system for a tie score in it, but a Dub has a lot of good time. This is called a rhythm read, rhythm read rush run, right?

That's this idea that a quarterback can through these different routes kind of have a sense of the time that he has left in the pocket. And one of the things about this rush route or kind of a hot route is referred to is they always tell the quarterback that if you feel the rush, throw the rush route. So a quarterback in those situations should always have kind of what we call a zero plan. You know, if you were playing and you got cover zero, you know you're going to get maximum pressure. Well, as you come up there every time, you should have an idea that if I get, something breaks down, where am I going? Right? That should be part of that command and the thought process.

If something comes at me, where is the route that I can go to, where's the space I can go to? And so when you see that play design, that particular call, that is almost like a belt and suspenders call for them, right? we've got a good concept. If they play what we think that they're playing, they're fine. If they decide to get into something different, and they man up and they want to come pressure-wise, the quarterback still has a couple of answers. And so at times, you want to be able to have those calls in your book.

Maybe you're having a rough day. So then you make a lot more of those type of calls. But if you're handling everything, then you go back to what your meat and potatoes are. Through all of this stuff, right? We were looking at Casey's, Thompson and what he brings to the table. We then get into the understanding that he is new to the system and new to the guys he's playing with.

And that sometimes there are going to be situations where information should be shared that isn't. Right. In one of those cases, what ends up is you end up isolating your offensive tackle against a single solid pass rusher. There seemed to be some miscommunication over where the help was or whether the help was coming and then it's too late in the game. Is that

a thing that is fixed over the course of time? It can be. Yes. When you're facing it even front, remember there's five protecting and you're potentially sick if you want to check relief. So there is the potential

to double team problems. Now, if you combine that with this attack that's attacking the middle linebacker, then you're Either way, you're giving the quarterback something that he can handle. So in pass protection, sometimes you can't cover everything. You like to, but you can't.

And so then you make the quarterback responsible for somebody. If this guy comes and what you want, if you're going to make the quarterback responsible for somebody, you want that somebody to be as directly into his line of vision as possible. Does that make sense? I don't want the guy that I'm responsible if I'm right. right hand, the quarterback to be all the means to my left. And I don't necessarily want him all the way out to the right. Yeah, get the blind side.

And if somebody's going to be one-on-one, I want it to be the guy in the middle that I can see. Yeah, where I can see him, that he's coming into my face. So with quarterbacks that have mobility, yes, you can kind of at times, you know, double team in the nose. You can double team, right? There's plenty of path protections that can take care of that. And that would help. So now the tackle, maybe he has trouble with feet.

If he knows he has help from the inside, he can kind of set, you know, take care of a vertical set to take care of the outside move, knowing that he's got help from the inside. You know, and you don't want to give up the inside, or he can sit inside, maybe the guy wheels around and picks them off. There's all kinds of protection schemes that they can run.

As looking back allows us, the question locally has been, if this is just two-hand touch basically for the ones and twos, why would you not display or showcase Casey Thompson more than four throws? Good question. Let me, I don't, the answer is I don't know. But just because they're trying to offer up something that doesn't mean that it's right. But, you know, maybe they've seen enough of Casey.

maybe they've seen enough, that they're comfortable. Like you said, I mean, he made some killer throats. There's a high caliber, and the catches weren't bad either. The distracted catches for receivers is not the easiest thing. And for those of you out there listening, you know, if you're standing up and you're like in wide open space and I just toss you the ball, that's one thing. But if I take another person and have them just stand right next to you, and I cost you the ball.

That's a different catch. And just think about somebody who has the ability to hit you. Right. So those are high-caliber throws and high-caliber catches. And so the answer is maybe they've seen enough of Casey. And maybe that's that little thing they want to keep under wraps a little bit. Right. Right.

Not showcasing. Not showcasing everything. That thing we talked about early on are other folks paying attention. Yes, they are. Yes, they are, and they want to know what you were doing. Because that makes sense. I asked this question to a friend yesterday just from this space that I wanted to know, can you and should you know who your number one quarterback is after spring?

Absolutely. Right? I mean. If you don't know there's an issue. right yeah with people added if you have two

quarterbacks you don't have a starter you know what I mean well I mean you know all the old school had said if you've got two quarterbacks you don't have one you don't have any

right exactly but I mean I like the idea and I didn't know until you know Saturday Chauberti had not been practicing

with the team because he had the injuries and stuff they work on so him playing him getting out there Saturday and throwing it around speaks volumes He really is starting over.

The systems are there, and you don't control that stuff. But I do ask the question here. In a scrimmage, in a practice-turned scrimmage, where you're mainly the full contacts with third team and beyond, what can you learn based on that format? What can you learn? Are you looking at just giving people an opportunity to be seen and to get reps?

Are you looking to see if you can find a diamond in the rough? What are you looking for where you're out there playing seven on seven? And then and then the reserves get to bang a little bit. A whole lot of things that could go into that answer, you know, based on the new world that we're living in. So let me be as broad as possible. I know what I would be looking for. If I was doing that, I'd be looking for,

guys to shore up my depth. But who can best execute their assignments? You know, those are the guys that, you know, they don't get a lot of reps, but I want to see them under gain pressure, you know, are they close to executing the things that we've been working on? So that then

begins to solidify my depth chart. But in this same age, let's go back to what Jay was saying when Wade Phillips made the appeal to him, here's where you want to be because we'll give you a film. Right? So does recruiting enter into it?

You know what I mean? Yeah. Well, you're showing off. You're showing off some? Right. Yeah, what do we do? Yeah, exactly. Exactly.

Brave new world we're in. But I would think the basic coaching function would be, okay, I want to see under, you know, game conditions, these guys, can you execute your assignments? How hard do you play, you know, those types of things? Just normal evaluation. And I think that would help me solidify or. range my death truck going into the fall. Yeah, I think that was a lot of what happened Saturday. I think it was, I think that was a big, like I was trying to, you know, you know my brain

that I was just sitting there at moments, just kind of slowly processing, what is this, what am I seeing? What should I take away from it, if anything? And you asked those selves, you yourselves that question. And I know some of the fans were asking that question. It was like, why am I here? Well, yeah, it was a great. for the fans, I can imagine a lot of reasons.

Because that's what we talked about it. You know, I did watch the NC State game, and I just stayed reverses, and I saw all the quarterback moving the ball and things like this. And, you know, I understand that. You know, you've got same customers there that see a product. But, you know,

I take Whipple's comment after the game. He goes, we got out of this healthy. And they should have such a concern about all the injuries that the main thing they were looking forward. We get everybody in trouble. And so we start to fall in, so we have a chance to, you know.

It could have been the same. They have been standing, but maybe all the ones are the kids. Are you walking into the National Zoo? What is going on? No, evidently not. Oh, it just sounds like, yeah, I'm like, wait a minute, he's got all the animals behind him. What are we eating? Oh, D.C.

Had a lot of fun this week. There's a dish, I'm going to spell it for you. The green dish don't mean a semi-A-S. It's so Y-U-G-O-N, a K-K-A-K-A-Rorean Beach Bowl. This dish is really simple, really wonderful. If you already have some cooked rice, it probably takes about 15 minutes to make.

You need some, about a half of this serving for two. You need a half a town of beef. Now, this beef, if you have an Asian market near you, you're going for a cut because bulgogi cut or shaboo shibu and I'll explain shibu to you. If you don't, you get a half a pound of like sirlana rib eye and you want to put it in the freezer to harden it, not freeze it through, pull it out and slice it extremely thinly. Okay. Once you have that meat set, you're going to take a cup and a cup and a half of water in that shaboo shaboo or that thinly sliced meat. You're going to take it in batches and just swish it around.

around in the boiling water. That's what shaboo shibu means. It means switch-sh-sh-sh-wish. And you switch around the water until the tank disappears. And you pull it out and you repeat that. And when you're done, what you'll notice is you have a beef broth. You'll run it up to boil. You'll skim off any foam.

And you'll take exactly one cup of that beef broth and you'll pour it into another pan. Two and a half tablespoons of soy sauce, a tablespoon of sugar. And just let that dissolve. Another ingredient you'll need is one whole onion. You will slice that onion, then slice it, you'll put that into that broth, you'll put the meat back in on top of that, and then you'll crank that up to boil

and then reduce it and let it simmer for three minutes. That will soften the onion. Okay, once you get that done, while that's going on, you take two eggs, and you whip those up as if you're going to scramble them. So after those three minutes now, when you're on simmer, you're going to crank it back up to high, right so it's really boiling and you're going to take that scrambled egg uh whipped egg and you're just

going to pour it over the top drizzle it and then put a top on it for about 30 40 seconds take it off your dish is done now you take that that that mixture and you put it over top of your rice and if you have access to a pickled ginger is a really good flavor the ginger flavors a really good flavor that goes at this you can put pickle ginger on top is like a garnish and maybe a couple little green parts of spring onions. It is an absolutely delicious dish, dish. If you like beef, you know, it's a great dish, easy to make, and utterly, utterly delicious. So share the picture.

I just showed it to Rico. Rico, can you work with that, Rico? I think you can. Maybe. I'll repost it on my, I'm going to the field right now, so I'll repost it around 2 o'clock Eastern time. Thank you, B. T.

Appreciate you. Every time he talks about making food, I'm like, I could eat that. I'm not going to make it. Well, here's the thing. Hey, here's the thing. You can make this. It's really easy. It's really easy.

Don't let the name fool you. The look on his face is not. It's right in its feet and its onions. It's just the way you put it together. It's really easy. I can make a lot of things. Do I want to? I can.

All right. I got it. I got it. Barry, appreciate you. Barry, appreciate you. Barry, appreciate you. All right. Thank you. Bye-bye. So that's Barry Thompson. Again, I'll share with Rico some of his snippets from Saturday, Saturday, Spring Game. Great detail. I'll have to ask him if he's okay if we share it. There's some pretty good stuff on there. And it's not, you know, you're not being overly critical. You're just coaching. You're just coaching.

We'll close this out. I'll give away a care package. There's a group of people who this week had to work at an exceptional level. to do exceptional things in an exceptional circumstance. We'll talk about that when we come back. Watch live on Facebook, YouTube, or Twitch. You're listening to One-on-One-on-One with DP on 937 The Ticket and The Ticketfm.com.