Frank Thomas

It's the earlier starts for me, the earlier start to the regular season.

You would hope there would be more of a jumping off point in just having this offensive system down, having four of his five starters returning on the O-line.

And so to get off to a faster start early in the year, not just as a playmaker because he made –

The good weather games earlier in the year were when he's throwing these rockets that can barely be caught, even when they're accurate.

You got to 30 and 40 mile an hour winds.

You got to below zero temperatures.

So I'd love to see him start there, and I believe he will start there earlier in the season next year.

And I actually had a buddy of mine who sent me –

I was really impressed because between that conversation we had in early December and the end of the regular season, his accuracy honestly did improve a lot more in that final month plus than I even thought it would.

Now he's got an offseason to really get into the mechanics of playing quarterback well.

within Ben Johnson's offense.

It's not just about getting the playbook down, rote memory style.

I love what Maryland head coach, and he's from the DMV, but he was a former Illini offensive coordinator, Mike Loxley.

Back in 2020, when everybody was just kind of out of work and sitting around trying to figure out what to do next, basically, Mike Loxley started a minority coaches coalition to try and attack minorities.

The issue that you're raising here, where there's not enough black coaches who are getting opportunities as offensive play callers, as OCs and offensive play callers, as quarterback coaches, because that has more frequently become the path to becoming a head coach in modern football.

So the volume of those opportunities, it doesn't feel like are there anymore.

And so to attack that, to make sure that the coffers are as full as they can be.

Mike Loxley was a DB, but he's become thought of as this offensive wizard in college football.

Kevin Sumlin, a guy who's on his Maryland staff, was similar in that way.

But for black coaches, there's not as many...