1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - January 20th: 10am - Barry Thompson (Fairfax Football Academy)

Episode Date: January 20, 2022

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pillaging just for fun. He'll knock you round and upside down and laugh when he's conquered and won. I love that. Let's bring him in. QB. Coach Fairfax Football Academy, Barry Thompson. BT, what's happening, man? Hey, I'm sorry about the setup, but I was a little late on getting the stream yard thing, but I'm set up for next week.

Excellent. Well, yeah, because I think... Everything's going great. Just got off the field. Okay. Like I said, I got some college guys in, and we're doing it. doing some NFL draft prep, so I'm ready to go. Yeah, I was talking to Jay about it, and I said, yeah, we had, you know, Barry look at some

of these new commits and what they bring to the table, and he will let us know whether we are rightful in drinking the Husker Kool-Aid on this commitment class. Recruiting is different now that, you know, sometimes the high school kids don't get the full look, but when you have these transfer commits, you have a lot. some level of understanding for what they can do on the field at a higher level. So some of that is simple. Barry, we'll start with this because you're a quarterback's guy. When the announcement that Nebraska gets the commitment from Casey Thompson,

one, we immediately understand the legacy that his dad is Charles Thompson of Oklahoma. We understand the pedigree. We understand that. But then we can flash pretty quickly to the, the Oklahoma, Texas game to have some idea about what the Huskers are working with. From a quarterback coach standpoint, what are we getting in Casey Thompson? Well, I think they're getting everything they want, you know, on paper. You know, at this level, the guys can throw and play and do all that stuff,

but here's what really got me when you dig into the story a little bit. You read his interview or listen to the interview, and you realize that the amount, the volume of due diligence that this guy put into making his decision. You know, he went and watched pit tape. He, he understood how many times they threw the ball. He, you know, did a little research on Coach Whipple. He looked at the players that were there, the receivers that were there. He looked at the lineman.

You know, he really, really went in depth. And then they kind of, like, throw in there at the end that his dad, you know, kind of taught him the option game from the time he was a little kid. So you're getting on paper everything that you want. The other thing that I like about him a lot is he's in the master's program. So he's not, you know, this is a mature leader that stepped on the campus with two years to play. So now it's just, you know, when the rubber hits the road, does everything kind of mess together. But in terms of picking well and choosing well, I think they did a good job.

they didn't stop there because there's another talent available. Tubber Purdy and the Florida state pedigree, again, makes a statement that, listen, this is the pool we're playing it. These are the stakes that we're playing it. How is he different than from Casey Thompson? Well, he's different in two respects. One, Whipple recruited him in college. Yeah.

So, you know, that says a lot. lot there that he got he finally got a guy that he liked and then i get the chance to work them the other thing that's big about tubla is he has four years left so while there's going to be competition in that room it's a room that ultimately is going to fit together you know it won't this is not a room uh that immediately you know after the season you're going to see three guys hit the portal right right so that's another kind of uh calculation these guys have to do, right? So that pick of getting Chubba, Whipple's relationship with him, and the fact that he

has four years remaining, that fits perfectly into a number of different slots. If Logan kind of ascends a little bit or Tories, you know, it sends a little bit, Heimrich, it ascends a little bit, right? Then this project that you're bringing along with Chubba doesn't get disrupted. Now he's looking for another school. So on paper, this looks really intelligent. I'll ask you the question I asked Jay Foreman. How does Whipple handle implementing a new system with technically five or six new quarterbacks to that system?

How does that work? Because each one's going to want time, one-on-one time. There's the group time and the collective time. But each one's going to want that one-on-one time. Each one's going to need that one-on-one time to get acclimated and get it moving. How does that work? Well, I'd be surprised if Charles, doesn't already have the, I mean, if Casey doesn't already have the book digested already.

Okay. You feel me? Yeah. And that alone, when they go to that first meeting whenever that is, and Casey's spouting all stuff and the other guys haven't gotten used to. That's going to make Whipple's job a lot easier. Okay. Because everybody in the room is going to get, okay, this is how this flows.

The other thing that I mentioned this about Coach Whipple, you know, having worked at different levels with different talent abilities. He, like I said, he either has a way, a very simple way of teaching concepts or he's really good eliminating people who can't help him. Fair.

Right? And then he, in whatever concepts he's working from, they're flexible enough that he doesn't get away from his principles, but he can still go do something. So as you get into this and you see the quarterback that he chosen, and I know we're going to talk about the running backs

some other guys. You can begin to see on paper, okay, now I know how this kind of fits together. It looks to me like you've got guys who share some traits, but their differences are extreme. How does that play, right? Because now Whipple is going to have, he's got the smothers, athleticism, the cerebral, the competitiveness. You've got Harburg and the big arm, a big, tall, athletic guy will figure out how he processes. You know, Casey Thompson and the work that he's already put in and the work he would put in,

Chubber, and then you've got a freshman coming in who checks all the boxes. Right. So I think that speaks to Coach Whipple's background. UMass, right? I'm not going to name all the stuff, but UMass pit in the Pittsburgh Steelers. You just, in a sense, describe Ben Rathesburg or Kenny Pick

and no disrespect with whoever the quarterback was at UMath. Right. And that was my point about him as a coordinator and this consistent track record of putting up points regardless of the type of quarterback that he had or the style of offense that they ultimately ran. This guy has a way of getting these things down and or choosing the right guy to run the stuff. Barry, he does a thing that you and I talk about all the time was that his system is designed with the, with the pure and simple focus of putting points on the board. There you go.

That is the objective. But how is that so constantly missed by people in positions of power? Just to bring it home to people, here's something. I think maybe it's out in the ether now, but it wasn't when he made the move. When Tom Brady went from the Patriots to the Buccaneers, it was the first time this 30 years of playing football that he was playing for an offensive head coach. And so people were kind of amazed with his skis. set that the bucks are scoring points.

There's just a difference. I mean, it doesn't mean, by the way, that you can't be a defensive coach that wants to put points up. It doesn't mean that. But from the offensive side, that is the objective, is to score the ball. You know, we talk about old school stories. Once we had an offense that was pretty explosive, it was about 45 points a game, and the head coach, a very good head coach, a defense, excellent, one of the best head coach

that worked for. but one time he literally came on the sideline, just a little sideline chatter and everybody's emotional, but he goes, you're scoring too fast. But he met, you know, he met it from his defense to the rest, he wanted to possess the ball and all that kind of stuff. But he literally, in a burst of emotions, and you're scoring too fast.

And, yeah, so these mindsets can get into things. It didn't hurt the team. The team was great. Coach is great. But, yeah, you know, there's a different mindset with certain, people as how they want to approach the game. We've been in too many rooms where the head coach was a defensive guy. But I got to qualify.

That head coach is one of the best head coach I've worked. Right. I'm just a little antidote. Right. We have the other side of that, too. Yeah. He was a good coach. Yeah.

It was just a funny moment. I'm in this place now where, so they go and get Trey Parker, and then you go and get the number one running back in Juko. How long? and high is the bridge between being the top juco runner and being a stud runner in the Big Ten

Big Ten Conference? I don't know. And, you know, be honest, really nobody knows. But it takes you a field, you know, the Dodgers way back in the day used to have a bunch of pitchers, and they constantly cranked out these pitches that were really, really good. And I think they asked

branch Ricky or whatever they said, you know, how do you consistently get good, pitchers all time. He goes, well, we at the minor leagues, we get as many pictures as we can get, and then we watch and turn out who's good. And so when you look at the two running backs, I'll get the name

DeAndre Jackson and Anthony Grant, right? You look at them and they are very, very similar runners. Now, I've done this before and I've been wrong. You've accumulated tight end, and I'm watching two running backs who run well behind fullback. We line up in that

position and you've got a quarterback who's going to throw it but can run the option. So don't get too tingling Nebraska, but I know what I'm seeing on tape. And so there's the two guys that are very similar. So which one's going to be the big turner? I don't know. But those two are going to figure it out. But very noticeable when you look at the tape, but they both run full back gap scheme. Runners are both north-south people.

You see them on film catching flats out of the back. screen game, right? You can kind of smell what's coming. The only thing I don't see on the tape on these guys is pass blocking. But on the New Mexico kid, the grand kid, here's what I really like the best. He's a football player, D.P. Middle linebacker. He fired him outside linebacker.

He's on special teams. And that's a kid, okay, maybe he's not the next, you know, Mike Rose here. But he's a guy that's a football player who, unlike Kirk Hurstry, He loves football. Right. And you can see that this is a guy that, hey, we need you to go play outside linebacker. And he's going, okay, coach, where you want me to line up? Hey, we need you to go return a punt.

Yeah, coach. How deep do you want me? Right? Yeah. That's what I see on tape with the grandkids. Not taking any way from Mr. Jackson. I'm just telling you what I see on the tape with Grant. We're fascinated here in Lincoln with the coldest to ever do it Crawford.

All you need to know about the coldest is that Nikki Joseph is recruiting. Yeah. When I saw that on the 247, I was done. I mean, I did look at some tape, but come on. You got the name. And Nikki Joseph is recruiting him. I'm like, okay, let's do this. Technically, you see some route running skills out of him.

You see he didn't have to use it very much right, but you see a little, he has an understanding of a few releases. you know, he tends to do things with the ball after he catches it. He will go up and get it. Again, a football player. You see him right on defense, too. So is he the next big 10 three-time? I don't know.

But you've got a football player and, you know, a guy that wants to be on the field and you can move him around. So good stuff. Talking to Barry Thompson, Fairfax Football Academy. Barry, the dynamic of Scott Frost, who likes to call offensive. plays. Whipple and him actually being the offensive coordinator and the quarterback's coach. And then there's Mickey Joseph, who's an associate head

coach. Yeah. And the passing game coordinator. Yeah. Yeah. So it's kind of like you and I have been those two bulls in the offensive room, right? And we understand that you have to have a special kind of relationship in order

to make that work. How can Nebraska make this thing? Does Scott have to get out of the way? Do you think he can get out of the way? And then how important is it for Mickey and Whipple to be on the same page? I've always told you, I know I said it on this station multiple times. Forget the titles. The authority to coach is everything.

So if you're bringing these guys in and you've got to give them the authority to coach. And whatever that means between those three, it's got to be clear and it's got to be consistent. right um that said they are going to have some really private meetings at times right right but you can have those private meetings and they're good right because you kind of all understand each other and you do it and you can also have those private meetings where everybody's kind of going their separate corner so it's the fact that they'll have the private meetings isn't a big thing but but the if you bring him whipple in from the jump

he ideally he says hey I'm bringing in you know whatever this is it was told from the jump and the state's consistent and then Whipple excuse me

was okay with it same thing when you bring in coach Joseph hey I'm you're the associate head coach passing the coordinator even though I have the OC and I like to call the place whatever that is

each of those guys Joseph and Whipple need the authority to coach get the title. Yeah, it's going to be, I mean, to me, that dance will determine the fate of this team. Like their ability to engage and get on the same page or their inability to do so

will kind of drag this team. We were talking earlier, Jay and I were talking about quarterbacks. This is the time where quarterback development is vital. No matter what level football you're in, this is the space where development, improvement, all those things need to happen. And then for a select group, of folks, they are now going to

prepare themselves for the greatest opportunity in the greatest league at the highest level. You're working with quarterback that is preparing for, for, it's NFL prep, it's NFL grad school. Yeah, yeah. And they've got to, this is, they've got to learn it in,

on the go. What is that process like? What's it like for a kid to, to jump from low level college to preparing to be graded out and evaluated by the NFL. Right. We're going to find out. It looks like we're going to be working with

GHG sports. You know, there's a process of contact and the agent. They're a small agency, you know, looking for guys, you know, at this level looking for a chance. So we hooked up there. That's important. Then the next thing, the next important things are the training regimen, right? The, you know, what is going to be best for that athlete? So the one that I'm working with, you know, he's not going to go in and knock out 225, you know, 40 reps. That's not going to be his deal. His deal will be, you know, let's blow some combine numbers away, right? And so now we're looking to get him into a combine to this one in India, I think,

and then there's another one, A&C down in Atlanta. We're a lot of scouts appear. So we're really prepping him on two roles now, prepping him on the, you know, the 40, right working the breaking it down working on those things counting steps uh working the 510 5 working on this explosiveness he's he's uh vertical i think is is over around 38 wow um he's a 4 540 guy 6 6 6 7 215 really athletic will pass it past everybody's eyeball test but his first job is to get ready for that now while that's going on we can't forget that we have to play football so right that's where i come in right we're

spending an hour and a half or two hours a day on the field, it's not always throwing a thousand footballs. It's just being really, really technically sound on how on footwork, clean, make sure mechanics are remarkably clean, and make sure that all that translates into being able to put the ball exactly where it needs to go and on time. So we're in that phase of it, and then shortly there'll be some workout.

clips that will come out. And then after the combine, hopefully there's a QB coach out there that sees him as a project or maybe USFL or invite to rookie camp. So that's where that is on this level. It's really for him, you know, convincing people that what you're seeing is what you see. And it's worth taking a chance on. So that's the other end of, you know, not having. ESPN around.

Am I an awful human being for comparing Mr. Myers to a baby Kaepernick? Am I? It's funny that that comes up a lot. Yeah, he physically kind of resembles him and that long athletic ability of the quickness. Like I said, anybody out there, listen, he passes the eyeball test. He just does. And that's a crucial thing. Jake can tell you, you know, when you're looking at an athlete, that's the first.

thing. And so he passes that. And he does have skill. And so, yes, that's a comparison to come up a couple times. Yeah, I felt bad for doing it. And I went, so I asked him about the kid, and I'm like, no, he's, he's capping. He's got the long gate. He's long-legged. He's got the rifle arm, breaks down, plays pretty quickly, gets into that space, moves, moves comfortably in that space, no matter what level he's at, first level, pocket. second level. He's still comfortable in that space. And he competes, which. Yeah, and he's getting better. And, you know, you can go back and look at his Charleston

film. He led his team to a spring division championship, you know, the COVID-chort and stuff, and they went up in championship game. And this year came back to see fall campaign. They had a close loss to Frostburg. They beat Notre Dame and then won it blues in the UNC Penbrook. But, you know, he finished with conference honors and things like that. And he's still getting better. He took about three or four days off after graduation, and then we've been on the field and in the gym ever since. So he's, guy, loved it.

A guy's getting better and just need somebody to look at him and take a chance on him. I kind of feel kind of sneaky suspicion that that guy is going to do. That guy will get paid to play quarterback pretty soon. What do we eat, big man, what's up? Oh, you follow me online. know I threw down some jumblei the other day. I think I've said this before, but it was just one of those days I'd throw down jumblei.

So I'll go with, I think I talked about it, right? I talked about I was going to do jumblei. You were got to do it, but you didn't talk about Jambalai. Walk us through it. I was, jambalai was really good. Shut up. This is something I didn't make. That's right.

We talked about Waukawr weekend. That's right. This is something I didn't make, but it turned out like a gift to me. and it's really, really good. One of my quarterback's dad, his wife, the Filipino, and they saw my stuff on the online. And so just as a gift, they brought in this box, and it's a disc called Pancet.

It's P-A-N-C-I-T, P-S-S-E. And Pancet, and it can be spelled with an S too, but in different regions of the Philippines, it's cooked differently. Now, I had something called Pancet, B-H-H-O-N, I don't have pronounced it, but B-I-H-O-N. And it's these, I'm going to make you hungry, D-P-A. Yeah, man.

It's these vermicelli noodles, the real thin, almost clear-like, and then it has among it, like shredded chicken, it can have shredded pork, a little bit of shredded cabbage, which sounds weird, but it gives a nice little texture. There's carrots in there. Sometimes there's snow peas in there. and it's just this really heartwarming dish. I tell you what, this is bad to do,

but it kind of reminds you if you've had good, non-greasy fried rice. It's kind of that idea, except you have noodles, and it works together. It's not strange. And they brought me two boxes of it. I don't have any left. It's really good.

The pan said, I didn't cook, but the big thing is check out Filipino cuisine. They do know their way around the seasoning cabinet. and the food is really, really good. So I was lazy. I ate. I didn't cook. Hey, man.

That's all right. Now we're all hungry. Appreciate your brother. I love you, man. We'll talk next week. Thanks for having you. Bye-bye. Barry Thompson,

a favorite-frey football academy. I'm going to send you pictures, a video of this kid he's training. Six, six and a half, two-fifteen, two-twenty, rocket arm, baby capernet. Getting them ready for the NFL combines. Where do you go to college? He bounced around because, you know, he bounced around because, you know, he bounced. You went to a juco and a lower level. I'll send you the tape.

Pretty good ball player. Like, and Barry's, the work that's been done and people are starting to call about them. That's how you know there's traction. But, yeah, just think Kaepernick. That's pretty good. Yeah, yeah, not bad at all. Well, toward a break, we will address Beatrice Bakery. You've got a couple of nominations.

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