The secret sauce of QB development, with Tom Gormely, Will Hewlett and Bruce Feldman
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🗓️ 19 July 2023
⏱️ 96 minutes
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Josh Allen becoming a perennial MVP candidate? Jalen Hurts leading his team to the Super Bowl? Those weren't exactly foregone conclusions when they entered the league. Quarterback development looks a whole lot different today than it did just a few years ago. How did we get to this point, and what is the secret sauce of developing a quarterback in the present day? Tom Gormely, the director of sports performance and sports science at Tork Sports Performance, quarterback coach Will Hewlett, and Bruce Feldman, college football reporter at The Athletic, join Robert Mays to dive into the topic on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
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| 0:50.1 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:51.1 | Great show for you guys today. |
| 0:52.8 | One of the stories of the league, in my opinion, |
| 0:55.2 | over the last few years is just the gains that we have seen from quarterbacks, from where they |
| 1:00.3 | were as prospects, to where they are as NFL players, and even from where they've been early in |
| 1:03.8 | their careers to where they can go in year two, year three. I mean, guys that are in the MVP |
| 1:08.5 | conversation, guys that are getting market setting contracts, |
| 1:12.2 | J-1 Hertz, Josh Allen, if you look at what those guys were as rookies or what you look at |
| 1:16.7 | where they were their last year in college, it was not easy to predict these sorts of results |
| 1:22.7 | that they would eventually end up in this place. |
| 1:25.3 | But these stories of improvement are no longer exceptions. They're |
| 1:29.6 | happening more and more. So I wanted to do a show where we kind of explore how and why that's |
| 1:35.4 | possible. What is the secret sauce that can lead to these success stories of quarterback |
| 1:41.1 | development? And to help me dig into that today, we're having kind of two |
| 1:45.0 | different sorts of conversations. A little bit later in the show, Bruce Feldman from the |
| 1:49.9 | athletic, who's done just an enormous amount of work on this subject over the last 10 years. |
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