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The Evolution of College Football Teams and Training Culture
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8/20/2024
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There used to be college programs, now they're college teams. You're no longer learning a
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program, you're learning a playbook. And the program is ultimately, like at Michigan for
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me, that was a pro-style program. Five years I got to learn how to drop back pass, to read
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defenses, to read coverages, to be coached. I had to learn from being seventh quarterback
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on the depth chart to moving up to third, to ultimately being a starter. I had to learn
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all those things in college. That was development. Then I went to New England and I was developed
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by Coach Belichick and the offensive staff there. I didn't start my first year. I think
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it's just a tragedy that we're forcing these rookies to play early, but the reality is
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the only reason why they are is because we dumbed the game down, which has allowed them
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to play. It used to be thought of at a higher level. We used to spend hours and hours in
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the off-season in training camp, trying to be a little bit better than next year. But
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I think what happens is it discourages the coaches from going to deep levels because
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they realize the players don't have the opportunity to go to a deep level. So they're just going
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to teach them where they're at.
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Okay. Is that, is he wrong?
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No, absolutely not. But what he's saying is, and what y'all didn't catch there, he said
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they dumbed. What he just pretty much said that this generation of quarterbacks. Now,
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I don't know if I want to go ahead with Tom Brady because Tom Brady just ain't really
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the type of person I think he is. But for Tom Brady to say this new generation of quarterbacks
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appear to be dumb because they can't understand the game on multiple levels. So they have
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the coaches have to dumb it down. What if the coaches are dumb? Because we've now had
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the number one pick two years in a row, be a young black man. Second pick this year,
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young black man. So I'm not, I'm not saying that, you know, Tom Brady's feeling this kind
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of way for a reason. But if you're saying they're dumb and they can't process the information,
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so they had to have it dumbed down and fed to them because the standard has changed at
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the college level. You did five years. So does that mean that every program should be
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ran away because it works for you? Or back in the day, that's how it worked. Or now because
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the quarterback is different. Now, the mobility plays a part in it. The accuracy, the arm
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strength. There are more things to a quarterback now than what you and Peyton Manning did.
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Legendary quarterbacks, Dan Marino, legendary quarterback. But these guys are different.
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So the game is simpler because they have more tools than you. Or you think they're
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dumb because now black quarterbacks are being drafted as the number one pick.
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