1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - Payton Thorne and Jayden Reed (Michigan St. QB and WR): July 27th, 10am

Episode Date: July 27, 2022

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It's time to go one-on-one with D.P. Coming at you live from the Koppel Chevrolet GMC Studios. Here is your host, Derek Pearson. Brought you by Mary Ellen's Food for the Soul. On 93-7 The Ticket and the Ticket FM.com. Oh, let's get to it. Big Ten, football media days. Let's get it.

DP, Puster Hall of Famer, J. Foreman. And as we do this, I get excited. because I know their stories from a different source. It's pretty cool. I coach the teammate, so it's friends and family. I know who you all, you all are. I want to thank you all for doing it. We thank Gary Michaels' clothes ears.

They're suiting everybody up, getting the thing done. Been blacker professional realty. All of that's good. Greatly appreciate it. And I want to ask them about their coach. Do not let me forget. Peyton Thorne is with us. We're here.

Jane Radies here. How are y'all doing, man? Man, we're good. Bless to be here, man. This is, okay. First things, first, I'm going to give you a shout out because you came in looking like a star. How important that that's got to be everything, that your teammates, the guy that you compete with every day and you live with speaks so highly. It's got to mean everything, right?

Yeah, you know, that means a lot coming from a teammate. You know, because ultimately that's who you are, you're with every day. And so those guys know the most about you and they can tell what's real and what's not. And so if a teammate can say that, yeah, this guy, you know, he works hard and he comes in every day and he's all business, then, you know, that's a very high compliment. And, you know, I'm thankful for that. Got to ask, y'all walk in with the OG, triple OG coach. Oh, yeah. Talk to us about Mel Tucker.

Come on. I got to ask you, man. Hopefully I get to ask Mel. And I want to tell you, DeVarge Tillman is one of my best friends. I know he left. But tell me about when Coach Tucker talks about you guys taking teams to deep water. Okay. Tell me, tell me about that.

The deep water, man. But then tell me how that makes you feel because you know you guys are going to go to a place that nobody else can go to. For sure. We look at it as like, you know, a year prior, we went two and five, you know what I'm saying? We was in a deep place, the sunken place. And then come to last year, 11 to 2. too, which is a good season, but not the standard. We wanted to take teams where we've been, you know what I'm saying?

Take those teams that put them where we've put it through what we felt and know. And that's kind of how I look at it. I feel like that's kind of how he try to lay it out, but that's how I look at it. Yeah, so the backstory of the Deepwater is during a team meeting one day, he turned a video on. And if I wish more people could see our team meetings because Coach Tucker just know, Like he's got something that will get you fired up. For sure. Every time.

It's like every team meeting. We had a team meeting like two weeks ago. I was ready to go out and play. Yeah. The middle of July. Oh, yeah. And so he turned on this video. And the video is, it's like a Nat Geo video.

And there's an alligator swimming through the water. And then there's a cheetah, you know, drinking the water. And he just snaps on this a cheetah or a jaguar, one of the two, and brought him into the water and brought him into the deep water. And so that's where the story originated because an alligator. obviously lives in the water. That's his home. He took the Jaguar, the Cheetah, whichever one it was,

and brought him to his place where that's not where he, that's not home for him. Right. He can't, he can't live down there. Right. Yeah. And so that's what the message was. What that is in our training. To show them, show them they don't belong here.

That's how you do it. That's a huge, there's a huge bridge you guys crossed. Right. I mean, to go from where you were to 11 and 2 with a quickness. No doubt. What, what is the thing? Is it love? Is it passion?

Is it knowledge? Is it work? What is it? How did you cross the bridge? Because not everybody can do that. Yeah, I think there's a lot of things that go into it. One of the things is, one of the biggest things is your mindset. You know, and so we talk a lot about the mental side of the game,

but also just the mental side of competition in general. And being able to move past things, being able to handle momentum swings, being able to handle when something doesn't go our way. And then also when things do go our way. And then, you know, just the work, the work ethic in the offseason, you know, our strength coaches, I think, are some of the absolute best in the country. We love them and we work, we work hard for them every day. And then, you know, it comes back to Coach Tuck.

And when you believe in what your head coach is preaching and you believe in him, guys are going to play hard. And then when guys believe in each other and the guy sat next to him and they truly love one another, you're going to play hard. And when you've been through shared adversity throughout the whole summer, You're going to do a lot for that guy. I think that had a lot to do with our success last year, and then we believed in ourselves. Mr. Reed, I want to ask you this, man, there's always a turning point in the season.

No doubt. And it's whether it's a game that you guys, you know, explode on offense or a game that maybe you don't play up to your expectation. Right. I want to ask you whether it was the Miami game where it was kind of your first big game down there in the heat. For sure. Because we interviewed on the Big Ten with Mel Tucker, talking about the stuff you had to do for hydration. But then you guys brought it to them and they tapped out. or was it after the Nebraska game and where you guys came together

and said, you know what, this isn't up to our standard? And then you guys just seemed to take off from there. Which one was it? Or was a combination of boat? I think it was, you know, at the Miami game, we had a lot of people doubting us going to that game. You know, the odds were against us. You know, we took them to the deep water.

Right. You know, we showed them that we're a team that can compete at any level, in the heat, in their house, in their home, in their state. Right. And, you know, we took it to them. I mean, I think that's a game that woke a lot of people up. Right. And made us look at us completely different.

Because a lot of people didn't think we were going to go in there and, you know, win that game the way we did. So. Yeah, that was the, that was the origination of the deep water that week. That was. We had trained for that heat for three weeks, he said. Yeah, not just that week. We had been trained for that. And we said, you know, well, we're not hearing about the heat.

We're going down there and we're going down there and we're going to beat them in their own territory. And, you know, obviously, they're down there the whole year. We're in the heat. And we're going to say, he's not going to break us. Right. And then we said, you know, at the end, in the third, third, fourth quarter, we saw them, they were tapping out. Right.

And the guys were subbing out. And we were, that gave us more energy. No doubt. Yeah, yeah. We've seen it visually. Right. Right. You can see it, right.

Exactly. We always talk about it. And you look in somebody's eyes and you know where they're ready to quit. Exactly. Here's another question. Now you guys are out there on the national stage and you're in a phenomenal position. You coming back as a starter. I was you going to take.

big wide receiver one. Sure. What have you guys worked on either individually and collectively, not only as a QB receiver, as an offense, to go to that next level, because obviously you've got to replace the running back. But having two, all-conference, quarterback, and receiver, you're in a good position.

You guys done in the off-season to keep it going. I would say we just, you know, run routes and everything, you know, run routes on there and stuff like that. We do one-on-ones to, like, get timing right and everything. with the quarterbacks and stuff like that. Another thing I think we're doing right now to build as a whole team is we do this thing. The four H's. The four H's.

So we got together as a team and we broke into small groups and we talked about really it wasn't football. It was your four Hs are your history, so basic history. Your hero. Who's your hero? Everyone's got a hero. Three, your heartbreak. So what's the toughest thing you've been through? Right.

And then number four is what's your hope for the future. And when you learn those four things about somebody, you learn a lot about them. And so we had a lot of guys that, you know, really, you know, share some deep stuff. And it's like, I had no idea that happened to you. And, you know, it really shows the game of football and how guys can come from anywhere. Guys come from money. They come from nothing. They come from, you know, being really good or maybe not being as good.

Right. And we have guys share, you know, we have guys share that every one of their best. friends got killed growing up. Right. And we got some guys that share that I really haven't had much bad to happen to me in life, but I've also had different battles. And it's like, everybody's gone through something. Right. And so when you learn those four things about somebody, you really, you care more about a guy.

Right. And then when you, when you're fighting for a guy who you know what he's been through, you're going to give a lot more for that guy than somebody you may not know much about. So we focus a lot on learning about one another. And, you know, I think that's going to help us a lot in the long run. Peyton Thorne and Jaden Reed from Sparty. And you said a thing that lit me up. The moment you sat down and you said at 11 and 2, that's still not the standard.

Yes, sir. Whoa, buddy. That's when the work happens. So what's the standard? What's the expectation? What's the GPS? The standard is the best, the best of the best. The reason everybody's going to fall camp, you know, working their tails off every day.

And that's the, you know, when the conference. title and a national title you know that's the standard win every game on your schedule you know you can't get any better than that so you know we're trying to we're trying to achieve the top of the top the best of the best look man we know you're popular you got stuff to do right thank you for sharing yourselves your story with us make yourself right greatly appreciate it man make yourself right go do you thank you guys do you think we appreciate you mark you guys for having us mark at us mark anytime look at him look at him look at mr right look at mr rott with a good hair Okay, like this is the meeting place, right?

This is, I have to say, I don't know if players are getting better looking, but that's the thing that's happening, right? They all, they all, they all swagged out, you know what I mean? My man got, you know, they, they, custom suit, custom suits. Three piece? Extra tight. Three piece? Extra tight.

They got four and fitted suits that we were not wearing. That is glorious. Yeah. Right? You know, you can see, you can see, whether it is, uh, whether it is, uh, uh, that we were not. right who calls on his phone doing the phone in his pocket yeah mr. Brown he came in looking tight man no that's a good deal around the way it again it's why you're here yeah is to be able to get that sort of interaction well let you know that's when you see them play when you see

them play and they're able to kind of get it going and they're able to kind of push themselves through some adversity you know you can see where it comes from they talk about the four h's okay the four Hs coincide with taking them to deep water. If you know something about somebody and they need to take somebody to a dark place and you know they've been to a dark place, you know exactly what's up. And so they're doing some stuff mentally for these players that, you know, that they're trying to get the maximum out of them. And they did it for their team as well.

So, you know, their head coach does a good job of, you know, trying to get in their head and challenging them. I'm sure this offseason has been a challenge. as far as, you know, the amount of work that they put in. And, you know, it seems like it's all, you know, headed in the right direction. All right. We got toward the break. We, because we got personnel and again, we're fluid today.

So we'll go to break. We'll have three quick segments to close out one-on-one. We'll get that thing done. We'll be right back from Big Ten Football Media Days. Download our app by searching 93.7. The Ticket in your app store. You're listening to One-on-One-1 with DP on 93-7 the Ticket in the Ticket FM. com