1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - Coaching Made Simple w/ QB Coach Barry Thompson- November 20th, 2024

Episode Date: November 21, 2024

Coaching Made Simple w/ QB Coach Barry Thompson- November 20th, 2024Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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my captain, Oh, Captain, my Captain. I heard y'all talking about me a little bit. And it was so funny. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Here was what's funny among all the things that you were spinning. Jay said, yeah, probably building houses. I did grow up building houses.

It made me laugh so funny that, yeah, we had a couple, we had, you know, some acres and stuff. And so, yeah, one of my early memories is getting the hammer, getting out there with the carpenters and all that kind of stuff. So, yeah, I built a frame the house or two. Matter of fact, tell you the truth, I'll tell you a great construction story. My dad was really good at this stuff. A lot of times he was the type of dad boy.

He said, well, just go do it. And I remember there's a roller rink that he bought up in the name, Long Story, and he wanted to put an addition on the back of this cement building. And we had framed a barn. And I said, well, how are we supposed to do that? And he just like, like I was stupid. He said, just get some, go get some, what was that? it two by tens.

He said, you just put a plate up against the wall. You know how to frame the bottom. I'm like, well, what about the foundation? He says, we just use the post foundation. Just dig a footer, put it in there. You frame it. 16 on center. Just get it up. So we're building this thing.

We're kind of being a guy named Brian Corkner, and we're building it out. We put the plates up against the wall. He tells us to get these drill bits and we do all that stuff. And we're framing it out. But the funny thing was we're in Maine. And we were used to construction around. here and main people are kind of stoic a little bit.

And so as we're building it, the people that were next door, they were watching and says, yeah, yeah, I'd use a two by six. And I'm like, two by six. Like all the construction I did was two by four, you know, two by four, 16 on center doing that stuff. And I'm like, and then we'd see this another day and we'd be working on the side of it because, yeah, I'd use a two by six. And I'm like, I don't know what these clowns are talking about.

But what he was talking about was that in Maine, you need the extra two inches for extra insulation to kind of build it. But yeah, I've had a hammer in my hand of skill saw and all that stuff before too. So that made me laugh when Jay said that. Well, I was trying to point out that there's certain types of people who really worked in unique space. And you have to shout them out when you see them. Like they like to call them unicorns or one of one or Renaissance man or whatever. whatever you want to call it. But to have, I don't know of many quarterbacks who were also wrestlers who are also, right?

Yeah, right. It's the crossing of the streams that sometimes it requires a little difference. And, you know, I used to use this line to your son when I coach Miles was that I don't know many quarterbacks who are poets. Right. Or who rock climb in the winter, by the way. Right, right. That you go through and you say, listen, to have that insane talent at high levels in unique spaces. Yeah.

And not everybody's built for it. Not everybody's creative that way. Not everybody's able to stay focused. And we had the wrestlers in yesterday. And Barry, they talk about a thing. And that was kind of where I wanted to. to start with you. Okay.

Was to have their discipline. So of these two wrestlers, I'm not sure that a lot of wrestlers are baseball players. Right. And I'm not sure we had one of the wrestlers. Yeah, and Lenny Pento is a different kind of creature anyway. Right. Right.

But Lenny Pentel being a guy who says, you know what? If I was three inches taller, I'd have been a football player. And I thought, I don't know that I've ever measured that type of football player by high. Yes, yes, yes. Right? Like, I mean, some of the, some of the toughest dudes that I've ever seen, high IQ football players. It doesn't know they do it. Like, I don't know how tall they were.

You know what, DP, that, I swear to God, you get inside of mind. I was just thinking today, you know, we're going to talk and what could come up. And my mind shifted to recruiting, right? Yeah. And I was thinking about recruiting. And, you know, I haven't been a college coach, but no recruiting is it. You know, I have a lot of quarterbacks going through. And it's a lot of them are pretty fond of putting this height and weight thing on it. And I was thinking, you know, if I was recruiting, what would I be looking for? And the number one criteria in my list was competitiveness. I was just thinking as a coach, the last thing I want to have to coach is somebody to make them competitive, to make them compete. And I was thinking to myself, I thought it through.

You know, I'd have my numbers just like everybody has their numbers. But if I was looking for 6-2 and a kid was 6-1 and he was a competitive son of a gun, I'm looking a little bit closer. I'll take, I'll go down an inch. I'll go down 10 pounds for a guy that is competitive, right? That wants to fight that has that thing in him. You know, you listen to Jay Talk and you think Jay's sick. well, you know, competitors are kind of sick.

They're a little bit twisted. And I'd want that. I think that'd be the number one characteristic that I would recruit, by the way. And then, you know, I'd go after. You don't want, you know, you want character and that they care and all that stuff. But I would really be looking for competitive dudes. And that guy that you're telling me about, if he set foot on the high school football field, I would convince him he could play some football too.

Yeah, I mean, like, and they're common threads in this thing. Yeah. That the wrestling program here has narrowed its scope in certain things. Not a particular type of athlete, but a particular type of person. There you go. Right? That if you're this kind of person and you wrestle, I can get you to the highest level against anybody. And I think we miss so much.

We get so caught up in the aesthetic. that we miss the meat and potatoes, the substance of what makes Division I, high-level Division I, top five in the country programs, who they are, as we have a long group of young, great ones walking by our window. It's Barry that if you tell me, and we kind of identified in the coaching that we do, and the type of people who kind of magnet to us, right? Yep. Are people who want to work hard.

Yes. They love. Yes. Which means they care, right? We use that word too, right? A person that you look at them and you just kind of look around their life a little bit and you always see this certain level of effort to whatever they're doing. It means that they care about what they're doing.

It sounds like a really basic. basic juvenile thing, but I want somebody who cares. I want somebody who innately has a great competitive demeanor. That if there's, you know, whatever we're playing, that that person kind of tunes up and they want to try to figure out how to weigh they win. And if you beat them, they want to go again. You may say two out of three. And they lose two in a row. They say, okay, let's go three out of five. And they get that and they go, let's go five out of seven. until like you're like man i beat you four times i know but this fifth time let's go i'm ready i want that type of person a person who cares you just can go so far with a person that cares about what

they're doing they want to compete they want to work at it and get better um you know o line high school o line coaches do this with players every year and if more people would pay attention to how O-line coaches work with players, particularly high school O-line coaches. They are never given the cream of the crop. And they are always short. They may have three. And then here comes a guy who's 5-10 and weighs 180,

and they want to make it work. And they make it work. They make it work because when you sit in that room, he say, who's going to be right tackle, or who's going to be guard? And they say, Marvin. And everybody goes, Marvin. And the O-line coach says he'll be all right.

He'll be all right. Marvin will be okay. And what he knows is he knows that Marvin is a kid that's willing to work. That's all he knows about Marvin. He's willing to work. And he's kind of saying, if you're willing to work at this, I'll work at this. And we're going to go, I'm going to show you what you can do. And Marvin says, okay, and coach gets him over there and starts doing the process with him.

And, you know, you get down to August and suddenly not talking about Marvin, you know. And that's a backhanded compliment to the O-line coach who should at that point get up and crow his chest and say, look, if y'all all did what I did with Marvin, we'd be in a state championship. Isn't that? But that's the part that, and it doesn't matter what sport at what level. And this is why we're having the conversation. That discipline and IQ matter. for success. All the time.

Right. And we don't evaluate that. We throw just mountains of NIL money. Right. To speed. Right. To height. To weight. To stats.

Right. Because that's ultimately the accumulation of a whole bunch of other things. But okay. It is a metric. Maybe not the metric, but a metric. Right. And then to say, we have failed.

We have absolutely failed. When we evaluate programs, athletes, development, etc., we have failed in not being able to identify character, integrity, heart.

Like we don't, we, listen, I guarantee you that for all the talent that existed in Oregon football and all the talent that exists in Yukon, basketball, that all of those things still at some point, at some point they meet and they have to exist in order for you to win championships. They have to exist. Right. You know, I had one coach

that asked me during the recruiting process. It kind of nudged me over and said, how does this kid practice? And if I was recruiting and I was close on the kid, I would not only ask the coach's practice, but I would ask for some practice tape, right? Show me, you know, a little practice tape? Yeah, practice tape. I want to see him on practice tape. I want to see a Tuesday practice, right? How does he practice, right?

Because in our sport, we know practice is everything. And I'm just surprised that more people don't ask for some practices. Let me see them in practice because what you see in practice is what you're going to get, right? And this particular player that this coach asked for, he's the face of Indiana football right now, at least one of the faces of Indiana football. And this coach asked me, I said, my nickname for him is hard work.

He goes, what do you mean? That's all I've ever seen him do, every rep. If you want a half-speed rep, you've got to take him out of the drill. And isn't that the thing that, listen, in the success story that is Signetti and Indiana, you also have to understand the success of Signetti at James Madison. You have to understand the success of Signetti Senior,

passed down to Signetti Jr. Right. In full modes that, listen, you're going to have to be better than your dad. Your dad's really good. Right. But you're going to have to be better than your dad in places that your dad would never have to work. And so what that tells you is all the, this stuff about facilities and this and that and budgets and stuff like that, when you see someone

consistently producing a result, there's two things that we know for sure. We know that he is a great manager of people of young men, a great leader of young men. And two, he's great at identifying the types of people that we're talking about. He's better at identifying those people than most, right? He's above average it doing it. You know, and there's just certain coaches out there who kind of get that that, yes, we have these numbers, but I got to figure out, does this guy care? How does this guy go about his business every day, right? What kind of competitor is he? It matters. It matters what kind of competitor he is. Think about this, Barry, that, and again, I love the fact that these wrestlers come in because they work.

Okay, so you're a multi-sport athlete. Right. And I can ask this question of you honestly because they say it and it's true. Wrestling is the hardest sport to prepare for, to recover in, to be successful in, and it's not even close. Right. And the thing about wrestling is they never talk about competing for your spots because I remember when I start wrestling and,

middle school. And here I was, I was kind of, you know, thought of myself as like kind of top guy and I go up for wrestling and I'd be the top guy. And then the coach says before the match, or we'll have a wrestle wall. And I go, what's that? And they said, well, you got to wrestle this guy. And if you beat him, then you get to wrestle Friday. If you lose to him, then you don't get to wrestle. Right. Believe me. In wrestling, the parents don't call up about playing time. They don't call up because you come home Wednesday with that look on your face. So then you went, no, I'm not wrestling Friday. Why not?

No. Because you beat me. He beat me. Right. And here's the thing. Like we, and I joke. Wait, let me finish. And they go, will you want to lose weight or go up a weight class?

No, there's no answer. There's no answers there. The state champs are below me. And the other guy's too big. He's coming down from 190. So if I'm going to get on the mat, I got to make it work. Yeah. I got to figure this out.

That that was, I mean, literally. So, and I, again, multi-sport athlete, I dabbled in wrestling. Only at the sense that by most metrics at Swanson, I'm really good. I'm really good. But Gary, at the time, at the time, the guy in my weight class hadn't lost ever. And then the guy above me, hey, you know who you have to wrestle against? he hasn't lost either

and then you go here's the decision you can go and you can go compete in junior high I stayed wrestling because I said I'm going to get tougher right I'm going to get tougher

Barry didn't wrestle in Amy all season long but I stuck it out and here's the thing I was wrestling against the county champion every day every day.

Yeah. Get to the county tournament and the way the county tournament work is everybody's in the pool. Everybody's in the pool. I've finished third in the county. Because quite frankly, listen,

you were asking everybody else that didn't matter. Hey, listen, listen, there are two individuals that and I don't encourage this, but there are two individuals that if you find them on the street that, and you get in confrontation with them, you need to think twice before you go One is a wrestler and one is a bull rider.

Neither one of those dudes, you don't, because they don't understand the word quit. His ear could be falling off. And he's still going to get up and get in the stance, a bull rider. They're the same way. You know, they're like, hey, they're about five, six, five, eight. Dude, six, six, they're like, come on, baby, let's go. Let's go. Well, he said, the thing that was said was, the county champ was, and there's Jerry Moore.

Right? Yeah. And if you walked up on Jerry Moore, in July. Oh, I'm not worried about this dude ever. But if you walk up to this dude in December during wrestling season, and he's got a bruise on his face, black eye, his face is totally emaciated because he hasn't eaten.

And he will tell you, you're not going to have a good day today. I'm in pain and I haven't eaten and you have to pay. Yeah. And so you go through. And it was like, you know, listen, I'm cool with taking on linebackers, all region linebackers in football. Right. Because I got them in space.

Right. Well, the thing about taking on somebody in football is it happens. It's over and then it goes away. The thing with wrestling is, like, it doesn't go away, especially the good ones. They're on you and they get you and they put the heavy on you and they start grinding parts. of your body and if you're in the mat, you're going to grind that into the mat. And you've got whatever the periods are two and a half minutes, whatever they are. And that's the way it's going to go. And they're sweating and they're breathing in your ear. And I don't know if these guys trash talk,

but if they do trash talk, you know, you've got your arm behind you and the leg somewhere else. And he's telling you like, hey, man, it's not good. Right. No, no. This was the thing. This was the thing. And I won't even say his name because it was just a remarkable thing that to have somebody ask me in the middle of a match where my girlfriend was oh barry yeah yeah like it was it was oh man yeah wrestlers are strange dudes they really are and it is weird now that you think about it i just remember i wrestled because although i like basketball i just like contact and basketball didn't have enough for me. So I would wrestle and then, you know, see what was coming up next in the spring.

If I'm going to do something, I was just a contact guy, you know, and, yeah, it's a weird combination when you think about it. But I just think that in this day and age, and again, where sports and teams talk about all the, the beauty pageant stuff. And you forget that if I'm recruiting and Mark Manning, shout out to Mark Manning for his ability, again, in the, in the power conference when it comes to wrestling. Yeah, yeah, right? To constantly be in the top five, not really in the transfer portal that way.

He's developing wrestlers. You don't hear about them in the streets. They talk about the discipline required. Hey, by the way, they never are at 100% once the season starts because, I don't know, it's wrestling. And to tell me that you can't win in football at Nebraska. or in any sport, but you can win in wrestling? Yeah.

Hey, man, you got, tell me this, Mark Manning, what, I want to ask him that. If you, if you could coach football, what, what would you fix? Because, listen, they, the discipline. You know what he would fix. You know what he would fix. Right. He would fix the type of people he's bringing in. That part.

Yep. That part. And then he said, listen to me, we had this wrestler, he wrestles at one, 174 down a weight, down a weight from last year, right? Wrestling at 174 and he said on a Tuesday that he has gotten so disciplined and so finite about his preparation, his nourishment, his nutrition, his workouts and all those things. Barry, that on a Tuesday in a wrestle week, he is 0.5 pounds over his weight. Yeah, yeah. Bro.

Like that part? Yeah. And what you're getting at when that stuff happens is something that when you talk about discipline, there is that definition. And it's a great definition of doing what you're supposed to do, when you're supposed to do it and doing it that way all the time. That is an important definition of discipline. But the greater, the more significant discipline is the self-discipline, right?

Is there something I know I'm supposed to do, will I do it or not do it? Right? I think I heard Saban say this. And conversely, there's something I know I'm not supposed to do. Will I do it or not do it? Now, all of us on a daily basis face those things. But when we're competing, that self-discipline is the one that has to be there. I think Jay was talking about, you know, the coach kind of poked them a little bit, right?

In order for Jay to respond, there was a lot of self-discipline that went on to get him to, you know, drop the mic on the 40-time, whatever that was, right? Whatever the psychology. But once he was poe, the response was, I'm going to have the self-dis. I heard Kobe say this one time, one of Kobe's things that went by. He said that when you go to your summer workouts, you know, basketball players will say, I'm going to shoot 500 shots or I'm going to do whatever. And he said, I would write a contract with myself, write out what I was going to do. And I signed my own contract. And in the contract, it said there was no negotiation.

There was no negotiation. So if he was supposed to take a thousand shots that they need to feel like it, there was no negotiation. You're going to go take the, the self-discipline is the part that really sets kids apart. You have the competitive nature of a person, the fact that he cares. and then when you're shopping in that store where those people exist, you're more likely to find the two or three that have the self-discipline to be elite. And then you're really gangbusters. And people have got to get off that they all look a certain way.

The NFL is the greatest example within certain ranges. At these different positions, all the players don't look the same. They don't look like the guys that you say that you're recruiting. They're different. If you've ever been up close with an NFL receiver, they will surprise you about how lean they are. You will be surprised at how does this guy work? Like, doesn't he get cracked in half? He doesn't.

And linebackers tend to be leaner than you think that they are. Lyman or linemen, right? They got to do it and they're athletic and so forth. But when you mentioned they're not the same height, they're not the same weight that you would expect. but highly self-disciplined, extremely competitive individuals, and the more of those guys that you can have around your team, the smart of the coach you're going to be. Yes, you want athletic talent.

Everybody stops in the athletic talent pool, right? Everybody stops there. Okay, so what ones do you want to pull out of that pool? You know, I think sometimes the coach has just grabbed. He's athletic, he gets a 40, he's 65 and just grab him. What about the guy that's 64-290? What about that guy? Can't we, he's kicking a 300 pounder's ass.

You know, we can't grow the extra ends on him. But if we get him, he can get up to 310 if that's what you think you need. Like, take him. Yeah, it is the conversation. And it transcends all sports and it doesn't really matter what, what, what space you're in. That these are questions we have to have. We'll talk a little bit about from the coaching standpoint. The things, the discipline required to make good coaching.

decisions. And I think it is a lost, lost art in being able to make good coach, the discipline required to make good decisions for your, for your players. We'll talk about that. Welcome back. One-on-one, 97th ticket, the coach, Barry Thompson joins us on one-on-one on a Wednesday, and we're talking about discipline because wrestling programs, high-quality programs, and sometimes it's competitive, listen, if you're in the Big Ten as a wrestling program and you've got to face two, there are seven iconic wrestling programs in the Big Ten conference. Seven. And the current king of the throne is Penn State.

Oh, your neighbor in Iowa has entered the chat. Wisconsin, Ohio State said, listen, from a recruiting standpoint, we're going to go tow to toe and fight you, we're going to spend millions of dollars, millions of dollars. And Mark Danning says, hey, listen, I'm quite frank, I'm not going to spend a million because I don't have millions, but I'm just going out working. And me and my guys were going to out toughy. But coach, making decisions, discipline. And I know this for a fact about you, that coaches get in rooms and one of Barry Thompson's

least favorite things. They can have a coach say, you know what we should do right here? Well, listen, I think when it comes to coaching, you and I traded something back and forth. There's a guy that's out there, and he said, you know, when coaches go through a game, a couple games where the team stubs its toe, and maybe there's a buy week or something like that, they come up and he said, you know what, we just need to get back to basics. And this guy in this little video said, why do they ever get away from basics? Right.

So in a wrestling state, you're just in a wrestling standpoint, you never get away from basics. Basics is what you're doing all the time, right? Stance and moves and all the stuff. But from a football standpoint, it's a valid thing, right, that you can get away from basics. And the basics broadly defined is, you know, are you running a program where the best idea always wins, right? Is that a basic tenant of how you're running things or are you running it differently? So those are basics, right? How are you making decisions? Are you sticking to your basics as a coach as to how decisions are made? Moving it smaller onto the field, you can, you know, what are the

basics? The basics are we want to block, we want to tackle, we want to pass the ball, we want to catch the ball and we want to kick the ball, right? Those are the basics. Then what happens is, then the next thought is, who are the best players to do those things, right? That's basic, right? And in that mix, which seems really simple, you can get lost. Coaches get lost about emphasizing these things. Theoretically on a practice sheet, the indie, right, that you do, is supposed to focus on the basics of the skills that you want, the players. to have to execute what you want them to execute, right? Then the next step becomes, do you consistently ask them to execute those things?

Are you consistently coaching all the points of the things that you want them to execute? That is, if I'm a receiver, are you asking me every day? Are I, am I doing, do I have an indie period of the things that you're going to ask me to do? my releases, my routes, what my hands are doing at the top of the route, distract, catch all of those things. Am I doing those things? My run blocking, am I doing those things every day? Then when I get into the group period, am I executing those things, right?

And it should be the such that you always tell the receiver, hey, take what we did in the Indy and I need you to deploy it here. So it's consistent. Then when that happens, you have really good. football players, right? Now that you have really good football player, and I think this is where a lot of us coaches kind of stub our toe, instead of drilling down, they start to add width. And now you're adding width when you expand the width because you think it's just so easy to get here and there, you're actually requiring them to adopt another skill, which you haven't drilled them in and

Indy in a lot of the cases, right? Keep it simple so that you can look at a single concept or two concepts and drill it down. Last time I gave the example of the Y cross, right? Two by two on the left, we got a guy run the vert, a guy running the out. The slot on the right side is going to go under the outside lineback up and over the mic. All right. Now, the read would be you tell the quarterback to throw the out. If he doesn't, look to the hash. If he sees no safety on the hash, he'll look for the cross. If there's a safety here, he's continued to his back side. Well, all right, we're really good at my cross. Couldn't I tell the guy run the cross to run with his eyes up and that if he sees the safety on the hash, that I want him to stop between the void of the

linebackers because in a four-two box, the linebackers are going to split and there's a void. couldn't I tell my back instead of swinging, hey, I want you on the front side of this concept, and I want you to run a pin down, so now I can get a high, low on that mic, and then increase the gap in the back. Haven't changed anything. Add a new skill.

I got receivers running with their eyes up, right? And getting used to finding voids in a zone defense. And then once I've got that skill, gosh, then I can apply it to a case if they go drop eight. Now my players kind of understand, hey, this is his own. This is the voids. I know we're running, you know, Carolina, whatever it is. But the void is right here in the middle and drop eight.

And I'm going to run a shallow to take that mic out of it, so we're going to high, low him. Right. Those types of things, but sometimes they're just done without developing the skill. And you put the players out there. Like telling a quarterback, here's a big thing. Getting a quarterback to understand where he wants to go with the, the ball before the ball snap. Where do you want to start? I got patterns on my left. I got patterns on my right. And I know you tell me the concepts over here, but what rules are you going to give me

that say consistently, you know what? When it looks like this, I need to start over there. Because I've got a beater over there. I have an advantage over there, right? Without doing all these it then scenarios. How can you lay it out so that consistently when he gets up, he has a way that here's a look that we want to check out of. Here's what we want to do. And then practice that. Right. It's just, it sounds simple. I know guys are working hard on it, but I've been in enough coaching rooms where that stuff kind of gets lost. And strategically, I've been in rooms and you've been in rooms too where you say something that makes complete sense. It makes all the sense in the world. And they listen and they go, now we're going, now we're going to

we're going to do something else versus I've been in other rooms where I've said things and it's not just because I said it it's because it makes sense it either was done or not done right and those things matter inside the room how those decisions are being made who's making them and um I just think and we talked about this a lot if you teach today's players you give them a consistent set of rules, whatever it is. And you teach them and you dig down. These kids are so bright that they consistently will come back and say, coach, hey, you know, if he does this, should I go this way? And you go, I never thought about that. But yeah, you should, right? And now you've got an old, another thing opening up. It becomes the thing where you say to people, I should never have to say

in a critical situation, you know what we should do here? We should already know. We should already know. We should already know. We should already know. Let me tell a funny story. D.B. and I sometimes will talk about our days of coaching basketball at this particular high school. And at the time, it was new and it was just a system that worked. And D.P. had in his infinite wisdom said that I should have coached this JV squad that, by the way, went on to win the state championship. And I had this player on there who was so used to coaches kind of doing. doing things. And he said, we're rolling along. Well, we're 10 and O. But he's asking me. He says, we don't have an inbound play when we're coming from the back court. He said, what's the,

like he's trying to question me as if I'm failing. I said, get open. I said, you're a great point guard. Get open and get the ball. He goes, no, no, we should have a play. He says, the play's worth the point. I go, get open. That's the thing. Get open. Get the ball, bring it up court. And I remember him being mad at me, but it's like that was the point. Like he was at the point where he shouldn't be looking to me in that particular situation to get the ball. Set a pick, set a screen, you play enough basketball. Get open. Like, what do you want me to do?

Yeah, he wants you to get open for him. We'll forward to break. We'll come back. We'll find out what Barry Thompson has been cooking. Take it with the coach here on 101. 93-7th of the ticket. Final segment with Barry Thompson. Oh, the funk of it.

It's down just for the funk of it. Yeah, baby. Been a good hour, a fast hour. It always is. I love it. We do what we do. We understand. We have to ask the question.

It's what, you know, Rick Flair had to say he would get in these arenas, and they were always sold out, and people were always listening, and he would grab the microphone, get really quiet, and then he would ask the question, what's causing all this?

I love it. I mean, what are you cooking? Well, not cooking. We're going to go sauces. Two sauces that are green can go to go with it. They're both really simple and I really try them. So the first one's called salsa cremosa verde. It's a green sauce.

You have three tomatoias. Get to Tienda and get them if you've never worked with them. There's a little husk pulled off. It's a little sticky. On the outside, just rinse that off. Three tomatias is going to chop them up a little bit. It's going to go in the blender. excuse me, about a quarter of a nice size onion.

Don't have to do much so it's going to go in the blender. A handful of cilantro. And then decide on your heat level. Either two jalapenos or two serranos or two jalapenos. You take all the seeds out or take it. Whatever you do, you can adjust it. Put that in maybe about a third a cup of water and a little bit of salt. Blend that up.

It is a phenomenal sauce that you can put a lot of that. on tacos, but you should just try. It's easy to make. The other one is called chimituri. If you're not familiar with chimitori and you like steak, you got to make a timitory. Again, you can look it up. The recipe should be relatively simple, maybe two bunches of flat leaf parsley, not the curly, flat leaf parsley if you can get it, you know, however much garlic you want in it. So there's going to be dried oregano in it. There's going to be red pepper flakes, however much you want. And then you've got to decide, you know, how do you want to do the acid and the oil?

So you're going to put some amount of typically red wine vinegar in it and then typically olive oil. When you make the chimichore, try to make it a little bit in advance because the longer it kind of sits, the more everything gets together. You don't have to be extreme, you know, maybe an hour or so. But if you're grilling, and I think the chimituary, you'll like it so much. you maybe start slapping it on your hamburger. So salsa, cremosa, darede. Oh, I forgot one important ingredient.

The thing that makes it cremosa. The thing that makes it cremosa is putting a whole avocado in it. I'm sorry. So here we go. Three tomato, tomatoes, quarter of onion, a handful of cilantro, a little bit of salt, third of water, and one whole avocado. Just throw it in the blender, blitz it. Great thing.

And then Chimichori. Make those two sauces. You'll be the hit. you'll remember that you made them when Nebraska beat Wisconsin. There we go. There to be T. Appreciate you, brother. I love you. Love you too, man. Thanks for having. Ticket weeknights rolls on. Harrison Orange, thank you, kind, sir, for doing what you're doing. Stay tuned. More ticket weeknights. Come it out.