Kurt Warner | Pro Football Hall of Fame QB

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So at the quarterback. How you get everybody on the same page for a minute I your first and foremost because we were talking about pregame is that you can have two altar where you look at a particular place to go all display very similar to what I read yet there's always different nuances of the coaches teach a little bit differently. It's called a little bit differently. Maybe the depth of the route is a little bit different. And so, although it you don't to a degree feel like okay this is familiar to me there's all little differences that that playing and then you have to add in the fact of now we gotta get a game and what is this guy going to do in a game. If you get this book. What you get a duplicate that will insert drawing it up on the board and on paper is completely different than the scenarios you face in game and those are all things that add to getting comfortable with the quarterback being able to visualize the play know exactly whatever was going to do, how it ties into the drop but he's going to make and then okay made Morgan on this with four different receivers. Now, what are they all going to do when we see this scenario and sometimes that scenario was seen for the first time in game and now you gotta go. Okay what you going to do on going here because I think you and then if he doesn't. Now what happened you know now they look at you and go, what you doing why you thrown at their you know the guys going somewhere else so those are all the different things that we kind of thing go quarterbacks really good and he's probably run this plate number of times so we just pick up where he left off when it comes to another team and it's just not that easy. I've always believed you having played in from different systems that it takes about 12 month like a full year in a system so you can hear because normally when you going to a new system you kind of translate back so you think about learning a new language right when you learn Spanish and you say some word in Spanish, the first thing you do is say okay what is that an English okay, think about trying to play a game of football when you get a call into the huddle, and the first thing you do is go okay what what is not calculated to when I was in Seattle okay you know you have to think about the game instead of just reacting and visualizing what you're seeing and all of that stuff goes in when you're learning a new office, no matter how good you are really Tom Brady went through it yet.

We went through half a season in Tampa. His first year, going to my gosh because it would be any good.

You know, even with the greatest quarterback of all time and so those are things that stands just kind of expect you to come easy and to be natural for God, but it really does take a long time to be able to get to the point where you can just settle in. Be comfortable as we talk about implacable engine on the Westwood One broadcast that the Chargers you had some higher expectations for them. Considering that there quarterback with their head coach.

Now they been together for a couple of years to what you see with them that's holding them back a little bit.

I just a lot of teams this year. When you watch them you Really put your finger on. Okay, what's off here but a lot of teams there often look choppy so it doesn't slow you not you don't see them you get in and make one of these drives were just, like bang bang bang bang bang and it just works in now or in the and that's kinda what it looks like to me with the Chargers is that they got a really good quarterback got really good players across the board, but it just looks choppy yell just like tonight, they could never really get anything going in established any kind of a drive and and create big plays down the field and I can't really put my finger on. Okay, what is it that's holding them back and stopping them from being able to do that but it all been a little disappointed with their offense because it has been choppy and probably more disappointed until tonight with their defense.

You know JC Jackson you comes over and Khalil Mack you and you know you already have bows and after a mean just look at these guys on paper you're like you should be dominate with what they have all offensively and defensively and it just hasn't worked out like that. Up to this point and so you don't want to continue to watch and try to see if I can figure out what it is the biggest thing is you just want this team to develop that killer and so many years the unit, and wall of the Chargers is okay every game, because they're probably gonna lose a close and you just want to see you when I get up on teams to be able to try the you know, put the hammer down is finished teams off because they got all these great players and we just haven't seen that you are teaching a lot of bad football around the leaks another six weeks.

Would you agree with that are now. I would that's kinda what I mean when I was talking about Charlie's being choppy yeah is that you just don't see teams coming out and clicking on all cylinders need only got a couple of really ugly looks really pretty good deal of her playing great. I think in the city Buffalo weekly scene. Some really good things from them but yeah I mean the Packers you know all our struggle in the box or struggle in the unit. We talked about these two teams tonight. The Raiders and he always teams that that you feel like how the pieces are playing very good football and we were talking about it. The off the year. Tonight was just that and I think Austin Eckler documented in the post game interview you didn't plan preseason and you seen so many more guys and so many more quarterbacks not playing in preseason and you wonder what kind of affect that house on these teams and you I think that's the beginning of season the indigo they got your mom splayed a lot in preseason, Josh Allen played saw me to play lobby plates out they were hurts plate you know when you start to wonder if some of the chopping. Especially early in the season has to do with these guys not playing together, especially if you put guys in a new situation and was a local builder playing their car doesn't play with the Fonte atoms in a new offense of and you start to wonder. Oh maybe that has a big effect on you know how they come out of the box early and how long it takes them to really find the rhythm to spend a few minutes with Kurt Warner fresh off Westwood One broadcast of money I football another overtime thriller, this one from LA he's also a Hall of Fame QB's are good to pick his brain a little bit here and after our CBS sports radio is there no way to fix it other than just reps.

I guess that's the million-dollar question right.

How you get there.

While I think you were me, I've always felt like so to visualize this, is that you could take three really good 2:45 Hall of Fame then you could draw play up on the board and you could have one Hall of Fame quarterback that loves it. One it says you know it's okay I can deal with that and then want to go to that flight and you might look at I go. How is that possible for three really good quarterback should not you all feel the same way about a particular play, but we all see the game differently. We play the game differently mentally, and I've always felt it was so important for an office coordinator, office of play designer play: to see the game the same way as the quarterback or to learn how the quarterback sees the game so they can create plays and call plays accordingly and so that for me becomes a big part of this process with you know these new coaches coming in with these new quarterbacks and you know just thinking that Hamlet take this offense that I ran a New England in order to run it Las Vegas.

It's going to be seamless and have your car going on the beach really feeling plays on the don't really make sense to to how I see the game. And then there's that your lack of continuity and so I think that becomes a big part of it is you are trying to install my offense and you're trying to install it for this quarterback and you're designing new plays each week is being able to develop that understanding of the guy behind center. The guy with the ball in his hands on every play.

How does he see the game.

How does the process these different plays and I've got a find a way to build my offense around the way he sees the game otherwise. It's always going to feel like it's choppy.

It's always good to be like you know the quarterback is fighting these plays in fighting to make them work because they're not fully competent because they're not seeing it works not being built way that they play the game sound like a friendship or marriage relationship to figure out how to communicate the same page right. I think there's a little of that sin and then you have to give like a relationship. You gotta figure out who's going out in the end got you know if you got a coordinator that really likes what he's doing and then you have a quarterback that doesn't like it wants to do some other stop who gets to win out in the end, and I'm always a believer that the guy on the field to win out in the you know my wife always got a win out of yes I feel like I'm always good to be the winner. Gotta figure that out but I thought I just don't believe anything never going to be really pretty good until you build around your quarterback and you find a system that fits them in and you seem very few quarterbacks that really excel from one system to another. Peyton Manning did, but if you going talk to the people that were around that Peyton basically took his office and ultimately it became the Broncos often. You could say the same about me going from St. Louis to Arizona.

It took some time but eventually the offense that we developed was very similar to what we did in St. Louis because we were built that way and because it was how I felt. I played my best football and when we got there we started having success in joke that becomes a key component with these quarterbacks will new coaches that are coming into being. With these new quarterbacks is making sure that it fits what that quarterback goes well and I think that's the only way to truly have great success topic around the cell. The last couple weeks and we had another couple of instances on Monday night football roughing the passer.

So as a quarterback Kurt how would you define it or how should it be to find you. I think it's really really hard yeah I give all official credit to see all the things that they see the speed of the game and to get so many things right that you know that the roughing the pastor becomes a really really hard one because you looking at so many different things and we got rules in place to protect the quarterback and I think we all understand why because the quarterback driven legally what those guys out there. We won our best players out there, but it's really hard to see like we had one tonight. I'm not sure who was that they got called for but as he was rushing he got hit from the side by offense of lineman that was knocking him to the ground as he was trying to tackle the quarterback and ends up hitting Russell Wilson you know semi low, and as soon as they see the quarterback get it. Love the fly comes out right you know that the Grady Jarrett hit on Tom Brady you after what happened with Dula. I'm watching that play the first time and I thought I saw that that that the speed of the swing by Jared as he was taken down. I'm like okay there's a penalty to it, and then your Jarrett finger kinda like let up at the enemy, Lady Tom Brady down without without throwing him down like I thought he was going to so I thought the same thing in the moment like this penalty that you swing them down.

We just saw what happened to her there throwing up, like you, and then the end of it happened in the night out will not stop drug penalty because I don't think it was that bad when it was all said and done and so were beneficial to see all of that will I'm sure he saw the swing and everything went through his mind and that flight was coming out and didn't really have a chance to gotta take it all in and go will show that really have been a penalty or not. And I think your Chris Jones think very similar maybe didn't see the ball coming out and didn't see all of that aspect and just all the full body weight voluntary card and that's by the letter of the law. It's a penalty. So I think were trying to get a right. I think it's going to be hard to get it right with the rules and and I don't really know what the answer is immunized. I would love for them to review it and to have somebody really look at it and go sure that or should that not be a penalty here, but I don't get the sense that were even thinking about or considering that so now were going to be subject to the speed of the game and all the things that are happening and the letter of the law and I think were going to have a lot more roughing the passer penalties that were all going to back… That's just a football play, but all in the vein of trying to do the right thing and protect deposition which I think everyone of us completely understand Warners with us here after hours on CBS sports radio CM Tom Brady yesterday and really anytime he doesn't when he gets angry he or his emotional animate on the sidelines. There's a video that captures it for the whole world, and yesterday it was him yelling choice word that is often sublime in that kind of thing happen to me now at scrutinizing cameras everywhere but I, where guys can't get fired up and yell at each other on the sidelines does blog could probably happen, the most between quarterback and often you know when you get here toward you know we don't feel they're doing their job. You are about the players that sometimes gotta get on and we you know we we gotta get after it. Sometimes it happened to the huddle. Sometimes it happened on the sidelines, but yeah I think that's that's a normal course of action in a lot of football games when you know were not having success that we want the first link that you go over to the office a lot. You know what were not going got like you got to pick it up or if I'm getting hit a lot in you know it in your didn't beat up like okay what we got. We got to figure this out so I don't know. I mean, I don't really think a lot about interactions that happen on the sidelines. You especially what happened here and there because part of football you, not Deb.

I could say that all the time they bring up one incident where I was yelling at my coach coming off the field and every time don't have that I can remember that time yelling at you go yeah you know that I was terrible that you know like they bring it up all the time. You know I didn't get into those situations very often what sometimes it happens like that in you get after it. And I think the biggest thing is just to go away. You know I respect you know guys would get all mere coaches a get on me because I understand they're just trying to get the best out of me and I want them to understand the same thing that I'm not attacking a person on just attacking a problem and we've all got a look at it that way.

And you know what, I wonder if it became a bigger deal yesterday because of you know Tom Brady and some of the situation that he's gone through with 11 days off, going to Robert Kraft wedding you know you just wonder if it gets elevated a little bit because of those things where really in the big picture of anybody that's play ball anyways quite often water quarterback would look at that and go meant that happen a millionth time that you got to go. I have to tell you I learned the term hot options by listening to you tonight. I had not heard that term before, so that was cool and I don't I don't have time for it, but obviously you started QB confidential. In addition to all the other things that you got going out there I would check out confidential.

What I learned more terms like hot options.

What I you would learn all kind of stuff. So I got a couple of really forgot confidential.com which is a teaching website so that has everything from like you talk about terminology. What I call black work breakdown structure playbook design. It's got field study got techniques, so backs really for anywhere.

I got lots of people that use it, but it's a real in-depth teaching tool that also got my QB confidential YouTube page where I do film study every single week and you're going to find a lot of that stuff, you know, about 2530 minutes on you know the Chicago Bears today and so it's breaking down the game get all of its elements from the quarterback perspective. So the couple different means of being able to use it but yet you will learn a lot of different terminology and think that we talk about his quarterback sounds so deliciously nerdy. It sounds amazing 33rd, you need to see it every single day. You can find Karen on Twitter occurred 13 water where did you get the caricature with the lightsaber by the way the card will likely close to that of about a year ago and so I just stole it from the OB curve like that so I thought was pretty sweet so I made it my by my homepage on Twitter so check them out there on twitter@qbconfidential.com Kurt Warner.were again it's always a great privilege to have you on the show. Kurt especially when you've already worked on 12 hours day. So thank you so much for couple minutes no problem always my pleasure very talking is your mental health. I'm listening with Billy eyelash spent a lot of time thinking about happiness and how it's just like it fluctuates and everyone thinks if you're one thing that forever and never anything else in a nutshell. Happiness is temporary, but also so is like misery and things just like Morrison change to just stay down and things change and how life works explore more time listening.org.

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