1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - One-On-One with DP: October 20th, 3:25pm – Takeaways from the Frost Presser

Episode Date: October 20, 2021

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You're listening to one-on-one with DP. Brought to you by Beatrice Bakery. On 93-7 The Ticket and the Ticketfm.com. You know, I think we got to completely let it rip. So a little bit of that is coaches. We've got to be ready for the first drive. First drive matters. It particularly mattered in that game.

We went three and out, and they took seven minutes off the clock and went and scored. But we just watched the whole team game with the outside. offense. First play we made a wrong read. Second play had a guy open and protection wasn't great and just missed it. And third play had a guy open again. Corner fell down on a dig route. And we probably threw it a little too quick and didn't make the play. And then you punt to them and they go seven minutes and it's seven nothing. So that's kind of what I'm talking about. When the play's there, we got to make it. We've got to be a little better in protection. We've got to make the right read and it's little details here and there.

We're executing on a lot of stuff, making a lot of plays, getting a lot of yards. When it really matters, we haven't gotten it done enough. So much of that was Scott Frost earlier today. You listen to one-on-one. Here's some of what we take from that. One, letting a rip is a statement of confidence in your knowledge. and ability to execute. So knowledge of what you see,

knowledge of what you see, no matter what they line up in, you have an answer for, then your ability to execute it. So you're going to attack a thing that you feel like they are weak at. Or you're simply running plays to see how they respond to it.

That's not what Scott Frost just said. Scott Frost just said that they knew what they wanted to do. They just didn't execute it well. And letting it rip means being comfortable in what you're being asked to do and your confidence in your ability to do it. There is no fear when you know. I repeat that.

There cannot be. There is no fear when you know. Like when you line up and you understand what you see and what you see is something that you've seen before. And then your reaction to what you see, is, well, I understand what I need to do against this. If I'm going to run a hitch here, if I'm going to run a slant pattern here,

to know where in space, when there's going to be green, where there's going to be turf open, right? Will I be able to identify whether there's a zone or man to man and whether I can get into that space? Sometimes the motion before the play will tell a receiver for what defense or coverage he's going up against. And then once you know, oh, well, if somebody goes in motion

and they're running with them, in that space, they're probably in man coverage. If the safeties don't move, then it can be man coverage on cover, and the safeties in zone covering half the field third or feel whatever it is based on the numbers that are left over. So there's knowledge in that. lining up with an idea about what we want to do. So in this right, I need to be seven strides.

I'm going to break him down and come back, one step to get my numbers and my eyes back to the QB, and then I'll take another one back to the ball just so that I beat the defender to it, and there's no contest at the point of you receiving the ball. Being sure that when you see the motion, that you look, you've had your eyes in the right place, and you saw that the motion pulled somebody or didn't pull that.

Okay. Rules apply. If I'm being chased, keep running. You're in man. Run away from man coverage. If you're running a route and you're not being chased, stop. Stay.

It's a zone. If nobody's chasing you, it's a zone. So sit in your space, be in place and on time for your quarterback. Then on the backside, and Scott talked about, that they threw it a little too quick. Well, this is where line play jumps into effect and pass pressure. Because during normal weeks against the same competition, right, against defensive lines that they're familiar with

who rush the same way on a particular play, there are certain windows that open during practice. And those are the windows that Adrian is hoping are clear. and that he can throw to to be on time and in place for that route against that defense. And on the third downplay, Adrian, like the receiver understood the coverage. He got into his route. He got even so he was leaving. And then Adrian stepped up to throw, but they're in the window.

There was a large defensive hand in the window, which batted down the ball. Now, sometimes Adrian can step into a different window to make said throw. if he's not under pressure. If he's under pressure, Adrian will try to do the right thing on time and hope that it ends up well. But sometimes it doesn't because that window's not clean or a linebacker didn't do his job

and mistakenly stood in the way of the route. Sometimes Adrian has a linebacker who's deep enough in the window for him to throw through the window, but he's got to change the trajectory on the ball to get it over that defender. Third down, first drive. linebacker gets into the window, gets his hands up, Adrian has to elevate the throw,

it's a little too high, a little bit higher than the receiver expected because that's not what they had done or known during the practice week. If the lineman moves that defender, you know, six inches, that's a first down throw. If you don't, Adrian steps up, throws it,

and the hand gets up in the way. There are a million things that can go right there, things that can go wrong. But here's what they should be talking about. I heard today that Scott Frost said that they are one play away from success. Let me offer a different thing, that they are a million little details away. Because it's never the same thing and it's never the same person. So the details on the things that you coach to every player. And the rule of coaching is, if I'm coaching one, I'm coaching you all. I'm coaching one offensive line, and I'm coaching you all.

If I'm coaching the center, the guard better be paying attention because he better know what the center's doing. The center has to pay attention to what we're talking about with the tackle because he's going to be calling blocking schemes for that tackle, and he better know what the tackle's going through. Same for tight ends. Tight ends have to know what guards are doing because sometimes guards pull in their space, sometimes the guard will occupy a blocker that would normally be a tight end

and if they get there on time and in place then the tighting can get up to the next level false start motion illegal in the back field legal lineman downfield holding calls all of those things are an accumulation of small details that have big impact and this team has to fix a lot of the little things in order for the big things to matter and go right. But those are fixable. Those are things that you can do in high volume, high repetition on a regular basis. Look, if we run offensive plays and you run 60 offensive plays of practice, you're grading out and you understand whether in those 60 plays.

Line coaches have to make sure that the linemen are playing at Saturday level, not at Tuesday level. Have officials in play that will tell players. You can't do that on Saturday. And the best way to tell them that they can't do, they can't hold a certain way on Saturday is for it to be corrected on Monday and Tuesday. Defensively, it's a lot of little things.

I mean, understanding that, look, especially against certain teams, linemen staying, staying flat across the defensive line, across the defensive line of scrimmage and not being turned, is vital and it's important. And you can't shortcut in practice and then not think that you can shortcut in games. Well, I can turn against this guy

because nobody's going to catch me and it'll be fine. But you do that on Saturday and you turn your shoulders, guess what? Minnesota runs up and down the field on a key third and third and short. If you simply do your job, do your job, everybody has to do your job and everybody has to be holding to the mission.

everybody has to do their job so that the entire mission works. Football is a weird sport that you have 11 players on the field doing a thing, and if one of them does it wrong, it can shut down the entire thing. So you have to be loyal to the end-game purpose. You have to be loyal to what you're going to do that play. And then you're going to be loyal to what you were taught as your responsibility. Right? Like, that's crazy.

and it's a bunch of little things. Linebacker fits. It may seem convenient to shoot through and try to make the big play and to be able to fist pump and raise your elbow. But wouldn't it matter more if you did your job well on a base level so that somebody else can make the play

and you get off the field. And if you take a chance and you only make a play one out of three plays, that's two first downs and an extended drive. On defense, not hold a lot. Holding true to the mission cost you, and it cost them Saturday. It cost them against Michigan. It cost them against Michigan State.

It costs you when you aren't loyal to the task that you were given the responsibility for. From the text line, Ben says, DPI, I wonder Bill Moose wasn't the person who failed this football program the most. Well, Scott is ultimately responsible for the performance of the team. A young guy moving in such a high-press situation requires positive mentorship and guidance. That means being able to have a boss look at his support in the eye and make a read on whether he is not, on whether or not he's doing okay

or what he is doing is okay. I think Bill Moose abdicated that duty. Ultimately, a lot of people failed Sky Forest, including himself. And I think he would say that. And it wasn't failed purposefully, right? So don't get mad and saying, well, they failed. No, they had opportunities to do. the right thing for everybody involved.

And you have to pay attention that maybe his Bill Moose's priority wasn't correcting Scott Frost. It was running the business. I don't know. You guys could probably tell me better on that or not. Ultimately, the athletic director is also responsible for the football program and its record. So through that, whoever was in charge

did not do good enough charge. Doesn't mean they didn't try. just means that the result was they did not do a good enough job. Ed, from the Texas line, of course they're one-play away. Thank you, Captain, obvious frost. When you lose 10,000 games by less than a touchdown, of course, you're only one-play away, but we all know it's a bunch of baloney. Ed, I just think that what I wish is that we got transparency on why some decisions

are made, and coaches don't want to always explain to you or justify to you why they chose what they chose. But to the fan base, you can't say, I want the fan base to understand what's going on and then not tell them. Right? We're not asking you to throw people on the bus. We're asking you as a head coach to tell us what's there.

Or as an offensive coordinator or a defensive coordinator. Oh, that's fine, Danny. If you don't want to tell, you don't want to tell. But then you accept the consequences of not telling and not sharing information. As a program head, I would want to have people know what's going on in my program in my voice because I should know it better than they do.

And I don't want people to speculate about whether I care about my players or I know what to do in this situation or that I can be successful in that situation. And ultimately as well, the coach is responsible. The grown-up in the room is responsible for the results of everything that happened on their watch. Finally from Joe Plummer, I'm about to turn on my radio, and if Nick is karaoke when I do, I swear

No, Nick will not be karaoke in your day. But I'll say this so that you get, the listeners understand, the more you tell me, you tell me we can't do a thing, I'm probably going to do it. That's all. So Joe, are you asking me to have Nick do karaoke? Because that's what it sounds like to me.

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