1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - Intellectual Improvement: June 2nd, 10:25am

Episode Date: June 2, 2022

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You're listening to One-on-One with DP, sponsored by Beatrice Bakery, on 93-7 the ticket and the ticketfm.com. One-on-one on a Thursday. Thank you guys for hanging out with us. This segment brought to you by this hour of radio brought to you by the folks from Ambassador in Electric Joe Davidson crew. They allow us to invite in Barry Thompson, the coach. We can talk all things, sports, football, kitchen, etc., music. music, everything. We're talking about the off-season intellectual improvement. We call it the improvement season, and people think, okay, I need to get bigger, stronger.

That's more routes, that's more throws, more minutes, more hands on the sled. But what it actually allows you to do is to get smarter than what you do. And if you're smarter, the things that you do naturally become more easily done. It's an understanding thing. And we were talking about tendencies. And film study allows defensive players and offensive players to see what's going to happen in that space so that when they see it at practice,

when they see it in games, they are already familiar with them. Is that a fair evaluation of time and space? Yeah, that is the purpose of scout teams. they play a very significant role on various different levels. I don't know that it's given the attention that I'd like to see it, you know, at the high school level. Some people think it's, I think the squeeze is worth the juice.

It takes a great deal of preparation for the coaches to be able to give a look to the defense. One of the schools that is at that was real successful at a DC that I really like, he was good from Huddl at pulling tendencies. He had the reports. And Huddles kind of, I'm not trying to pump up Huddled, but it's just something that I'm familiar with. There's probably other forms that can get it.

But really good at generating these reports. He knew exactly the pieces of information that he wanted, right, that would give him a read on this is the number one formation. This is what they like how to do it. It's really that simplistic. right and when we would come in Monday the first thing he would do was to line up the formations and he would tell the defense

this is the number one formation that they used here's the top play that they use out of that formation and then he would walk through it and we would go through and then the next day would come out and the scout team would run the different things from that it's not a very fancy concept but what you want and it seems like maybe some of the Nebraska players are heading that way,

ideally you want them ahead of the coach, that when they go into that first workday meeting, that not only the coach is presenting these things to them, but they have questions about it, right? Now you're getting somewhere, right? When you have players that are leaving that much forward, that they're looking at it in a way, that they know what the coach is going to come with

and that they will have questions about, hey, are we going to play this set against that? Well, our check B here. Right now you're getting to, you're getting somewhere, right? Rather than those players just being passive and dragging themselves to another meeting and then waiting, I'll get to 10-0-4, we'll go out on the field,

you want to take this energy that you said these players have and they really want to move it forward. And this is the time, and I've done this with my, quarterback's a lot. This is the time where they need to go and ask another coach. Go ask the, go sit with the O-C and say, explain this to me. Like, why are you guys doing? You know, why do you do this at this?

What are you seeing, right? I've told my quarterbacks over and over again when they first get there. I said, no, it's no offense to your guy. Make sure the politics and all the stuff is clear, but they're clear. Go to the D.C. And get him to explain Buzz through, get him to explain how they line up

or what they're telling the safety seat if it's two versus four. If it's a four shell, where they're going to roll out. Because they're telling those guys specific thing, and you need to know what they are. And the defensive guys are great teachers, right? Yep.

They're great teachers because they've got to teach in the exactness and they're underhanded. Right? because I said they have more spaces to defend that they have people. And so they have to, the coordinators have to be smart about what they're doing. And they have to be smart about what they're teaching. And they have to reduce the number of if-then scenarios or else players get confused.

Right. That's what their checks are for. You see this, check for this. Why am I checking? I'll tell you share a story with you. Maybe inspire some of the Nebraska guys who are listening. There's an interview with Ray Lewis. He's on the Rich Eisen's show.

It was before some, like, a reality show that he was doing down in the jungle or something like that. And he got to talk. He starts off talking about Brady, him and Brady. And he said it was to the point where, you know, he, Brady knew that he knew what they were doing. Right. And he knew that every time they were in this and they were done. He rattles it off even though he's been out of the game for how long. And then Rich says, how did you get that way?

And this is a kid. he says in 98 when he was at the pro bowl old-fashioned pro bowl hanging around players and he met peatine and met peatine's wife he says really nice woman and they got to talk and Peyton white Peyton's wife says to ray about Peyton she says you know he studies you don't you and ray goes what he's yes he studies you and ray said okay that's how it is So he goes back to his house and he built another whole room for film. And he goes back and he gets Marvin Lewis and says, Marvin, I need to know everything about our defense. I need to know our checks. I need why we're checking. I need to know why we're lining up, right?

All that stuff. And that's how Ray becomes right. And so the player that's listening that's out there who's thinking about greatness, he's got to understand. that that's where the greatness lies. He's got to push his understanding of this game past anybody that he's competing with. Everybody out there runs.

Everybody out there lifts. Everybody out there watches film. Everybody wants to win. So what are you going to do to gain an edge? You've got to do this other stuff. That's where the gold is in this game. And that's why guys can play. when they're 38 years old.

You run this combine stuff, and we dazzle or dazzle that some guy runs 4-1, and he jumps 12 feet. But come playoff time, we do not see him, and we don't know his name. It's the 35-year-olds. It's a 38-year-old. The 36-year-old, the 40-year-olds

that are playing championship football. And as a young guy, if you can begin to understand, this is not about your physical elevator anymore. This is about your mental elevator. And if you start to extend, accelerate your mental elevator, you got some gold in front of it. That leads to, I mean, because this was a part of the junior seow camp back in the day.

I'm out in San Diego. And he would talk about, well, it's one thing. He goes, and he rattled it off, and I'll try to recreate what he said. But he pointed out that, well, there's Stan Humphreys. and he's a really good athlete. As a quarterback, Stan Humphrey runs a 4-9-40, and he's really fast and he's strong. But as a quarterback, 4-9 is kind of the space he thought he was going to be in.

He goes, in some point, I'm going to face a quarterback that doesn't run 4-9. He's going to run 4-7. And I got to make up that step. I got to make up those two steps. And so I got to know what that guy's doing. I got to know what he's thinking. He goes, running backs, most running backs are being at 4-5 to 4-7 range. so I don't want to pursue, I want to anticipate.

Yeah. Like I don't want to react. I want to be proactive. He goes, receiver run in reverse. He's going to be a four or five guy. I better shorten my steps and I better cut an angle so I can get to where he is. He goes, alignment, he's going to be 5-2 area, 5-3. He goes, I run a 4-6.

All of those guys I should be able to catch if I know what I'm doing. He goes, well, people don't do the math. I understand that you've got all these 4-9 and 5-0 quarterbacks running away from now 4-6, 4-5-and-4-6 defenders. Mm-hmm. He goes, the defenders are catching up. Yeah. And the only way the offense can beat us now is that to take a better angle, take fewer steps, and get rid of the ball sooner. Yeah.

Yeah. I mean, the bears more than anybody can prove that game was up, right? Yep. that if I've got some bigger, stronger, faster guys, I can get to you, and it can, it can ruin your day. It can ruin your day. And, you know, then you have, now you don't always have players like that, right? But we can ruin your day. And, you know, you said 40 times.

So I pulled up a 40 time here. It's specific of a quarterback, 4731 on the laser, which is probably projected about 5, 457-1 hand out, right? So it's exactly what you're talking about. There's a quarterback that's moved into that area, right? where, you know, now he's as fast as junior was in, right? So then junior would have to make this. And it's funny thing with players because of the, lack of, you know,

the willingness to do what Ray did, seek the really greatness in that film room and take it to the field. It's that a lot of times when they have that speed, it's just a one-step adjustment. I remember when I was in college and they would tell me, hey, you got some guy, he's really fast, four, five. It's still lined up at, I'd line up at eight or so line up at six, I'd line up seven.

I'd give my yard. And then it was done. So now can you go play football, right? So a lot of it, sadly, I guess, is just a slight adjustment. And that's why when you see a running back coming, like, we haven't had him on a while, but you'll see a guy that's just clearly faster than everybody else, right? He just runs back. And you think, oh, my God, how can the league stop the guy that fast?

well, you know, his second year isn't so much, right? You know where he's going. Everybody's given him that extra step, and now, young man, can you make a tough three or four yards run? You know, can you set things up so that in the fourth quarter, you know, you're going to outdo us. And a lot of times, the answer is no. The answer is no.

Do you say I was answering to that? And, God, I miss that, dude. But he would talk about it. He said, listen, they're either going to make me make a play, which meant he had to be athletic. or he was going to make him pay when he could be cerebral and physical. He just talked about it different than anybody

that I'd ever been around. It reduces it to exactly what I was talking about. When you are processing the right data, right? It does come, it becomes a very binary game. Yeah. He said you could either make me run. You can either make me run because I was reacting to your speed,

or you allow me to know where you were going to be, and then I could be physical and make you pay. And he said, I, he goes, I would take away all routes behind me. I'd give the step because I could make up the step and then punish them. Yeah, right. And so, right, and then that becomes,

now you're getting to the physical nature of the game. It's like how, yes, you got something from me, but how long are you willing to take this from me? Yes, you've got a couple of years. But every time you do it, you got this. So how many of those are you going to be able to stand? Because I'm willing to deliver them all day. I got a pocketful one.

No, no. He said, I brought a bag today. There you go. I'm close. I have met, Jr., right? But that's the mind. I brought a bag. I got a bag.

And I brought them to give them out. That's right. And so, and I've never met, Jr., we've never had this conversation. but but but but the amount of information that has to be loaded in in order to get it down to that is is everything man man so you can't as a listener you can't just say oh that's really good and i'm just taking and hey you either make a make a player make it's like it's not going to work you're not going to become junior say out right you've got a load how many six foot three

255 pound 4-45940. Yeah. But I mean, but from the aspect of loading the CPU. Yeah, man. So that the computer can fire instantaneously. That's what I'm talking. Well, Barry, think about it. He knew that he was an elite physical talent.

But then he chose to be an elite intellectual talent. And that's the difference between the average guy and the Hall of Fame. Right, because the guy who's. physically, more physical than everybody else, it's a hard sell because all the way up he's gotten by with less, right? He just shows up.

He beats up everybody. But when you push into these upper stratospheres, you have to begin to understand quickly that the physical advantage that you have is going to be negated quickly. How about that?

How about that? And here's why. Hurry up, Barry. We got to get that. Because, yeah, because there's other men who want to get paid. Yeah, man, the checks are good. And they go like you just have what they got. The checks are good, bro.

We'll go to break. We'll close that. We'll find out with Barry's cooking 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.