Through the Uprights - Ep 3: Long Snappers/Holders

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🗓️ 13 August 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Chapter 5: A field goal always starts with the long snapper. In fact, there is no field goal without the long snapper. So, we explore the long snapper position through Nate Boyer and Kendall Gammon. Boyer is a former Green Beret in the US Army who learned to long snap, from the ground up, as a 30-year-old in order to fulfill his dream of starting for the University of Texas Longhorns football team. Gammon played 218 straight games during his career with the Pittsburgh Steelers, New Orleans Saints, and Kansas City Chiefs, and is one of the best long snappers in NFL history. Chapter 6: Someone needs to catch those tight spirals. This is an inside look at the holder position through Bryan Barker who had a 16-year NFL career as a holder and punter for teams including the Kansas City Chiefs, Jacksonville Jaguars, and Philadelphia Eagles. He held for both Nick Lowery (Kansas City Chiefs, New York Jets), and Eddie Murray (Detroit Lions, Philadelphia Eagles) who are not only featured in this series but who also required very different holding techniques from Barker. Since holders almost always play other positions, National Football League veteran John Carney (San Diego Chargers, New Orleans Saints) compares the difference between the punters and backup quarterbacks that held for him during his career. Louisville’s Art Carmody and Texas Tech’s Alex Trlica discuss having future NFL starting wide receivers Harry Douglas and Danny Amendola hold for them respectively, during their time as elite college kickers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following is a bonus episode of Lockdown Presents through the Uprites, a special podcast series about what it takes to make it as an elite college and NFL kicker, reported by Cole Weinstein and featuring interviews with Lou Rosa Award winners and decade plus NFL veterans.
0:18.5	Lockdown Presents Through the Uprites is available now wherever you listen to podcasts.
0:24.5	Before he made his mark on football, Nate Boyer was a green beret in the U.S. Army.
0:32.6	After multiple tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, he began to think about the next phase of his life.
0:39.3	I was actually in Iraq on a deployment when I made the decision to go back to college and play football,
0:44.3	or try to play football. I thought I was going to be a safety or wide receiver at times.
0:48.3	A plan he had set his mind to.
0:51.3	Started training differently in the weight room, between missions and whatnot, and even running
0:55.2	routes out in the sand and doing speed work when I could.
0:59.2	When he got back to the United States, he continued training at the National Strength and
1:03.9	Conditioning Association in Colorado Springs, an organization with ties to training Olympians.
1:09.0	It was really cool.
1:10.0	I mean, actually, I had high class training the best there is.
1:13.6	One of my straight coaches, a guy named Rob Rogers,
1:15.6	has been a strength coach at USC and Missouri and Baylor and all these other places.
1:19.6	And beyond that, I was kind of studying different ways to improve my speed and spirituality
1:24.6	and, you know, trying to like develop more fast twitch muscles and all that kind of stuff.
1:28.3	After his training, Boyer was admitted to the University of Texas and successfully walked onto the football team as a safety.
1:34.3	He was just like any other freshman without a scholarship in dreams of gridiron glory.
1:40.3	The only difference was, Boyer was nearly 30 years old.
1:43.3	I quickly discovered no matter how hard I trained, I just wouldn't have the speed to get off his couch and I wouldn't be able to play at that level with those guys.
1:52.0	And not only the learning curve of the board, I just wasn't gifted in that way.
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