Brock Purdy says NFL quarterbacks can’t actually see where they’re throwing nearly 40% of the time, and explains why processing information is more important than having a strong arm
"My quarterback coach, Brian Griese, the last couple years, he and I talked about that. He played 11 years, his dad’s Bob Griese. But we got talking about how really it’s 60/40. You can see about 60% of the time, and the other 40% you really can’t. I mean, it doesn’t matter how big you are."
"He goes, that’s why it’s so important when it comes down to knowing coverages, knowing scheme, where our players are supposed to be, how many steps they’re breaking, and where the ball should be over a certain backer. All those things, man, it matters."
"And that’s why guys, you know, if you go to a combine and all those things, you’re just throwing on air, and yeah, you look all good with a strong arm and fast, jumping, all that stuff. But when it comes down to 11-on-11 and you got guys that are a foot taller and you can’t see, it comes down to the processing."
"Like before the play, I know that this safety is probably going to rotate down. It’s going to be one high, and I got one hitch, no more than that, to rip it where Deebo’s supposed to be, like just inside the hash. And there’s a backer that’s also got a 40-inch vert that I got to put it over. That’s what’s crazy, all those things when you’re fitting it in over the backer and underneath the deep safety."
Brock Purdy says NFL quarterbacks can’t actually see where they’re throwing nearly 40% of the time, and explains why processing information is more important than having a strong arm
"My quarterback coach, Brian Griese, the last couple years, he and I talked about that. He played 11 years, his dad’s Bob Griese. But we got talking about how really it’s 60/40. You can see about 60% of the time, and the other 40% you really can’t. I mean, it doesn’t matter how big you are."
"He goes, that’s why it’s so important when it comes down to knowing coverages, knowing scheme, where our players are supposed to be, how many steps they’re breaking, and where the ball should be over a certain backer. All those things, man, it matters."
"And that’s why guys, you know, if you go to a combine and all those things, you’re just throwing on air, and yeah, you look all good with a strong arm and fast, jumping, all that stuff. But when it comes down to 11-on-11 and you got guys that are a foot taller and you can’t see, it comes down to the processing."
"Like before the play, I know that this safety is probably going to rotate down. It’s going to be one high, and I got one hitch, no more than that, to rip it where Deebo’s supposed to be, like just inside the hash. And there’s a backer that’s also got a 40-inch vert that I got to put it over. That’s what’s crazy, all those things when you’re fitting it in over the backer and underneath the deep safety."
@Mr_Tennis_Coach So this is where a coach can be helpful...seeing information that could become an affordance for someone else, and directing their attn toward it
Players can't act on an affordance they don't perceive.
Part of skill development is becoming better attuned to the opportunities for action available in the environment.
In the Screwtape letters, CS Lewis anticipated what some corners of Christian discourse on X would become.
Screwtape instructed Wormwood:
"Your patient must demand that all his own utterances are to be taken at face value and judged simply on the actual words, while at the same time judging his [opponent's] utterances with the fullest and most over-sensitive interpretation of the tone and context and the suspected intention...
Hence from every quarrel they can both go away convinced, or nearly convinced, that they are quite innocent...
Once this habit is well established you have the delightful situation of a human saying things with the express purpose of offending and yet having a grievance when offence is taken."
@_primamateria The leech has two daughters: Give and Give.
Three things are never satisfied;
four never say, “Enough”:
Sheol, the barren womb,
the land never satisfied with water,
and the fire that never says, “Enough.”
Proverbs 30:15-16
@adaptskill But at what point can we ever get away from the coach's experience and judgment? I dont think there is anything in framework or theory that indicates what constraints to adjust, how and when (and taking into immediate and larger context of the performers)
@adaptskill How does EcoD tell you what constraint to change when? How can you know it "worked?" That there wasnt something better you could have done?
@kestrelpsych Don't disagree with the first stuff...but where I'm at (most) kids love practices and the games...and basically never get their ball out otherwise.
@bigpicsoccer What does traditional coaching look like in Spain? What about Brazil? Belgium? In what sport?
Tough to put it all under one all-encompassing umbrella. Sometimes tradition is viewed as a positive, a connection to place, culture, and history
@bigpicsoccer What does traditional coaching look like in Spain? What about Brazil? Belgium? In what sport?
Tough to put it all under one all-encompassing umbrella. Sometimes tradition is viewed as a positive, a connection to place, culture, and history
@bigpicsoccer I really think bad coaching is just bad coaching, and it happens in a variety of ways and for a variety of reasons, not just one metatheoretical misconception (espoused or otherwise)