Tom House
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Exactly. And I can remember Tom looking and going, I'm not sure. And as it turned out, we hooked him just because of that. The stuff that he was doing that was new made him feel stuff in his delivery. And one thing that people don't realize about Tom Brady, he is demanding. When you're a coach working with him, every throw is under the microscope. What'd you see?
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I felt this, what should I have felt?
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Oh yeah. And then if he didn't think I was paying attention, he'd screw something up.
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And what he didn't realize is that I knew that he knew. The thing that was hardest for him to understand was his front side, I just say, closed until the last possible second. He was taught, like all quarterbacks in his generation, to pull that front side through to get more on the ball. And it's just the opposite.
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If you've got a vector going this way, you can't put force on it that way or as much spin. Drew was extremely accurate with a base that was too broad. He could not throw long effectively. Tom Brady, on the other hand, could throw in the next week, but he had a base that was too narrow.
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So we spent a good part of the first three years we worked together narrowing Drew Brees' stance and spreading Tom Brady out and firming Tom Brady's front side up. They both took volumes of notes. I think Tom told me he had 17 spiral notebooks. Drew had 12 or 13. And both of them, they shared in common film study.
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They would look at film and look at film and look at film and look at film to where they had already played the upcoming game in their head before the game even started. And that's an anxiety reducer and a stress reducer
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And there you are. Right under the think of it as money sign. Yeah. So when we drew straws as the bullpen guys on where we wanted to be, it was basically analytics before our time. It came exactly where if Downing made a mistake, that was where it was gonna go. If I would've stood still, it would've hit me right in the forehead. So it wasn't a great catch. I caught the ball, Bill Buckner,
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To be honest, quarterbacks are the easiest athlete to work with. They're used to huge amounts of data to be processed quickly and turned into action. Pitchers, on the other hand, don't have a time clock. Well, they do now. But pitchers are a tough sell because they don't have to be on the spot. They're expected to figure out how, at their pace—
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Exactly. A football player's fear of getting hit by a baseball is way greater than a pitcher's fear of getting hit by a linebacker. Weird, huh?
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We know the human arm can go 118 miles an hour. I've done it a bunch of times with pictures.
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Yeah. They're afraid of the baseball. Even though Brady could have been a big league catcher, Drew could have been a big league shortstop. Guaranteed, ticket to the bank.
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I don't know. Because it hurts.
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Yeah, if you're 93, 94, you're lucky to be in the first three rounds of a draft.
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not to tip my own cap, but we were the original research on velocity. With a two pound, one pound, six, five, four, and two ounce ball, we both threw and held onto We stole that from tennis. Tennis players never have bad shoulders on the backside because they hang on to the racket. We took that to the training. You're only as strong as your weakest link.
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As soon as their weak links started getting matched up with their strong links, velocities went off the chart.
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Most of the training we do for arm speed now is not done for strength. It's done for the nervous system to understand it can make itself go faster. And you know what the term myelinization means?
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You have this bank of nerves that you're going to perform something a certain way. And when you're doing it over and over, Your brain's not stupid. It's not going to waste time going to 80% of the stuff that doesn't contribute. It's going to go to the things that myelinate 100 mile an hour fastball.
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So these kids are reaching a point now where their arms, their central nervous system, and their ambient nervous system has been trained that 100 miles is possible.
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I said, how does he give it to me, give it to me? I said, no. That's history that you're catching.
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And when you wrap that, it's a fatty tissue substance, when you wrap it with myelin, then when it gets to the nervous system that it's time to throw, that nervous system can go faster than if you spread it out over six or seven different spaces.
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You still have to pitch. Let me throw something out you can laugh at over the next few years. We know the human arm can go 118 miles an hour. I've done it a bunch of times with pitchers. Can they do it for a game, a season, an inning, whatever? Haven't figured out how yet.
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A black man is getting a standing ovation in the deep south.
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Maybe not an everyday picture, but it's possible. I mean, everything I'm looking at research-wise says it's possible. The mechanics of Randy Johnson, the 105 guy from Cuba. Aroldis Chapman? Aroldis Chapman. And we looked at all those hard throwers. And if you mixed and matched all of them, then you'd have the guy that's throwing 118 today. But steroids, everybody beats up.
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Then running into home plate, I got there, kind of dove through the pile, and I put the ball up in front of his face. His mom and he were hugging, and he took the ball, said, thanks, kid, and I got pushed out of the equation. But people don't realize he was getting death threats and his mom was hugging him because she was going to take the bullet. They had to peel her off of him.
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And rightful so because it was illegal. Don't necessarily mean you can be skilled.
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I did. Not because I was a genius or whatever. I wanted to find out if what they said was true. And I threw 84 miles an hour when I weighed 170 pounds. I threw 84 miles an hour when I weighed 210 pounds. So steroids didn't do anything for me except blow my knees out.
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The thing that amazes me is a hitter should not be able to catch up with $105.
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Okay, if you add together the time it takes the best hitter in the game to swing at a pitch, he should not be able to hit 105 miles an hour. The times don't add up, but they do. And it's this ambient nervous system where the decision to swing doesn't go to the brain. It goes to one of the meridians in your shoulder, your elbow. It's like when you touch a hot stove.
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your finger comes off before you know it's hot. Right. That's what's happening with hitters.
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Exactly. And I swear to God, when people say that hitting is the single hardest thing to do in sports, times 10, that hitter-pitcher relationship, that dance, that's what makes baseball, to me, as interesting as any sport that's out there.
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He is the Drew Brees of pitchers.
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2-2.
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But the genius of Greg Maddux, he threw the velocity where he had the most movement. He could still, even in his later years, he could have thrown 95, 96, but it flattened out. So there's three ways to get a hitter out. You get them out with speed, change of speed, and movement. And he was a genius at all those. And a fastball in at 90 is faster than a fastball away at 90. Perceive velocity.
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One foot of distance, three miles an hour. So what he was was a guy that had a release point closer to home plate than any other six-foot pitcher. He could make the ball move and he could change speeds.
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Exactly. He released the baseball 48 feet, six inches from home plate. That's the cut of the grass in front of the mound. And he was effectively wild.
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And Randy doesn't mind me saying this. They knew every pitch that Randy was throwing in his big league career. They knew what was coming. They knew what was coming. But you couldn't dig in on him because he would do two slatters on the half shell and throw one behind your head without even trying. So he was what we call effectively wild.
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The fear factor hitting off of Randy was, I'm just going to take my chances. I don't want to know what's coming.
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Exactly.
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What goes around comes around.
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People don't realize that.
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Jamie Maher was me, only really good at being me. where you just run him out there, and it may be ugly one game, but at the end of the year, he's going to give you innings, he's going to hold games close, and he's going to be productive. You can count on him. He's never going to be on the DL. What's the biggest problem right now with baseball? Half the pitching staff.
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Yeah, there's no durability. So right now, in the spring training conversations that I have, everybody's looking for a durable right-hander or left-hander that they can literally abuse. without hurting his arm. And that's going to be someone that doesn't throw overly hard or overly soft, but knows how to pitch and can give it to you anytime he wants to look at it.
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Exactly.
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You've got to save your studs. And you can't have 12 studs on a staff. You've got to have someone that can eat it so that the stud can perform. That's where it's going. And that's how guys like me will get back into the big leagues.
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He was 10,000 reps behind as a quarterback and the same amount as a hitter. If he could have done one or the other with enough myelin, he could have played both. He could have been a solid backup, but his entourage didn't merit, even though it was a good entourage, being a backup quarterback and having that many things in the clubhouse. Everything you see about Tim is true.
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But again, he was short on reps as a quarterback throwing and short on reps as a hitter hitting.
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What it means is when you're behind the eight ball at the elite level, it's the same thing that happened to Michael Jordan.
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Michael Jordan was probably the best athlete on the planet. But when I threw batting practice to him, I look him right in the face and I say, as long as your p*** is pointing down, you're not going to hit the ball in off the plate. Long-arm man in, can't hit. If he would have played baseball from the start, he probably could have made a really good big leaguer.
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I'll tell you what, he's a pretty good athlete.
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But again, being on a mound where the base is loaded in the bottom of the ninth is different than being behind center. With 20 seconds going in the last quarter, You're out there on an island by yourself, and I don't know if he has that makeup. If you're a pitcher and you can't make a pitch in that situation, it's toast.
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No, he couldn't. He's too wired to pitch a baseball. Now, he throws a football. I don't know if you're aware.
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No.
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I think he's a hitter. He's proved all he needs to throw, all he needs to do as a pitcher. Again. I think his value to the ball club is on the field every day. And I'm going to say this with, I hope I'm wrong, I don't think his shoulders can handle it.
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No, I had no clue at all.
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It's a combination of a bunch of stuff. Primarily the thresholds with heavyweight training are really good for hitting, but not good for pitching. And the everyday stresses of throwing down the hill, when you generate energy on flat ground, the most you can get out of flat ground is about four times body weight. in foot pounds of energy.
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When you're going down the mound, you get about six times body weight. I don't think his shoulders can handle that, the deceleration. I haven't ever worked with him. I'm only looking from afar. I'm looking at his mechanics are very good. His makeup is outstanding. He's a dude, but I don't think his body can do both.
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Just kidding. I think his Hall of Fame life is going to be from an everyday player.
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I loved to throw. And I was, if not, I was one of the best BP pitchers in the history of baseball. And I noticed when I was throwing BP, the ball would get away from me. I'd throw a ball that would hit someone in the foot. And I also noticed when I was walking that I was shuffling and leaning forward. And I thought, okay, something's wrong.
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When I got tested, I thought I had a brain tumor or something. Couldn't find anything there. And then one of my best friends, we were walking toward the practice range. He said, Tom, I think you have Parkinson's. I said, what? All right, how do I find out? He said, call this guy. So I got tested and I did. They figured I'd been misdiagnosed for about three years. So I've had it for about 18 years.
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And then... When I figured out the prognosis, I said, this doesn't look too good for me. And I said, okay, let's figure out what we can do. So I took everything that I've been doing with elite sports and started throwing it at Parkinson's people. And we're not curing it, but we're slowing it down.
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Well, if it can be figured out, I'll stumble into it. And the doctor that I was working with at the time said, it doesn't kill you, but you don't die from it, you die with it. But your quality of life is going to be harder on you than you think. Then I found out that Dopamine is the reason we have Parkinson's.
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If your brain stops producing dopamine, then all the symptoms like I'm showing right now, where I start to quiver and my voice goes away, that's my price to pay. But if you can keep your dopamine up and add in something else. They can give you synthetic dopamine, but you keep having to take more and more and more just to hold your own.
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So I made up my mind, encafelines and endorphins are basically brothers and sisters of dopamine. It's an ene. It's an upper. It's a feel-good thing. And they've taken my skin cells. My skin cells are becoming... the stem cells that they can inject at the base of my brain to make sure that dopamine production starts again. I've been involved in that research for the last 12 years.
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Most important thing is not to be a burden for my wife. And the second most important thing, I've got to get what's in my head out to you kids before I punch my ticket.
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I'll be 78 April 29th.
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So you don't notice my voice? When you mention it, sure. It's the good Lord paying me back for all the bullshit I did way back when.
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Yeah. I've been on a vacation my whole life being able to play. I've never worked a day in my life. I'm playing every day. And the joy of going to the field and working with a 12-year-old or coming and hanging out with you still keeps me going. I'll be driving home tonight. my adrenaline will carry me because I had a really good time doing this.
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And you've brought memories back that haven't come to the surface for a long time. So thank you for that.
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And I think the future is really good. You love baseball, so do I. It's just now figuring out what it needs to do. Baseball is going to get better, and it's trying to change. The greatest right we have in this world is to change. What's the hardest thing for us to do? Change.
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I found out that there's not enough of you out there. Everybody's looking for the immediate laugh, buzz, whatever. There's stuff that's way deeper that does really influence kids. Everybody thinks that if you talk about being Otani, that you can be, not everybody can be Otani, but you can be the best you that you can be. And that's what we lack in this country. Everybody's about outcome.
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They're not about process. And that is killing us.
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Thank you. So let's try to do this again. Find a topic that nobody else would touch, and we'll do it again.
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Yeah, and I'll tell the truth. What are they going to do?
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If you didn't know who they were and you didn't know how they worked a game, you would pick Eli over Peyton every time.
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I think in today's game, I wouldn't have been able to even go to junior college because I didn't throw hard. But because of this guy, Sandy Koufax, I'm sure you might recognize that name. Familiar with the name. I brought it up the other day, and the kids didn't even know who I was talking about.
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He, when the Dodgers came out in 1962 or 63, they played in the Coliseum, but they did camps around the L.A. area, close to where I grew up. And I was at the clinic, and as the day was winding down, Sandy Koufax walked by me, put his hand on my shoulder, and said, what's your name, son? I said, Tommy House. He said, Tommy House, you have a big league curveball. Let me tell you about curveballs.
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There are good curveball hitters, but nobody hits a good curveball. You keep throwing that pitch, I'll see you in the big leagues in four years. He was right.
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And you know what that did for me? I put up numbers well enough to be able to hang out with a big league pension.
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As a player?
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It started in Boston. Don Zimmer brought me in a game to face a guy named Chris Chambliss.
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Yankee, who I had gotten out 35 out of 40 times. And Zim gave me the ball in a tight game and said, I don't give a darn what you do. Don't let him take you deep.
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And before Zim's family hit the bench, it was upper deck, game over.
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Walk off. And that was the beginning. I didn't pitch for 42 days after that. The joy of going to the ballpark every day kind of got diminished a little bit when I knew I was in the doghouse and was probably never going to get a chance to work out of it.
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It was exactly right. I thought too much and I cared too much. And that combination is a performance anxiety problem. So I became a defensive pitcher for about six months to a year after leaving Boston. And until I got involved with the research on performance anxieties, did I figure out a way that even a guy with my limited abilities could actually manufacture and do better.
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with these particular protocols. And that became the beginning of my research into the PhD program.
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Neither my mom or my dad could understand how anybody could make a living playing sports. In fact, on her deathbed, my mom looked me in the face and she said, Now, Thomas, when are you going to find a real job? Seriously, they enjoyed coming to the games, but her number one priority for my brother and myself, no A, no play.
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If you want to play sports, you have to have straight A's, and you can play sports as long as you go to school. That's why I went to school until I was 44.
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It would probably be April 8th, 1974. I think it was about 8.06 p.m.
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Really weird. They were on a limited budget with a franchise that was barely hanging on.
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Tom Greve as the GM was one of those GMs that said, we know what doesn't work for us, let's try something new. So I mortgaged my house to get an aerial system and we brought it into Rangers Stadium and we captured data. every hitter, every pitcher that went through there. We're talking about cube and high-speed motion analysis. And we had two years of data.
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We've got measurements coming out of our yin-yang. What is it that we have? I said, you know, everybody's trying to film a million pitchers and see what they do. Let's narrow our sample down to 30 of the best. It's a stepwise regression analysis.
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A fastball from Al Downing to Henry Aaron. He hit number 715. The only thing I can remember is thinking to myself, it's coming to me. What a marvelous moment for baseball. What a marvelous moment for Atlanta and the state of Georgia. What a marvelous moment for the country and the world.
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And we found nine variables, starting with balance and posture, that were dependent on anybody that wanted to throw strikes with health. And that was the year that we finished second.
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When Nolan Ryan joined the Rangers and started throwing the football, at least they shut up publicly.
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I'll tell you how he did. He embraced the new information like it was mana from heaven.
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And in fact, when he went into the Hall of Fame, he actually mentioned that, that Tom had all these weird ideas. But when I tried them, they worked.
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And he literally said, I was a better pitcher from age 39 to 46 than I was any time during the previous 39 years.
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Think about a tobacco chewing coach from the 50s and 60s listening to somebody like me talk about proprio neural facilitation. Can you see him? What's he talking about? It's a baseball. Throw it. About drag crisis from moving on the ball. About spin. Spin. About getting it closer. About effective velocity versus real velocity. And there was nothing wrong with it. It was just before its time.
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It began before Drew Brees, but it was rubber stamped by Drew Brees. Third and 14 of the 19.
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I thought it was going to be a mental-emotional consult, and it started off that way. But as luck would have it, that was the season that he blew his shoulder out.
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House Call: Why the World's Best Pitchers and Quarterbacks Seek This Man's Advice
He and I spent the summer post-surgery in an aerobics room at the Pacific Athletic Club just figuring out ways to make our arms work without lifting weights or throwing anything. So that became the body work that put his shoulder back to function to where he could throw the football. And then the rest is history from there.
Pablo Torre Finds Out
House Call: Why the World's Best Pitchers and Quarterbacks Seek This Man's Advice
most accurate passer in the history of the game. All right, so the word kind of gets out and people start tapping on the door. Alex Smith was one of them.
Pablo Torre Finds Out
House Call: Why the World's Best Pitchers and Quarterbacks Seek This Man's Advice
Yeah, another testimonial to curiosity in someone trying to make, so even though it was weird, they were coming by to see what was going on. And then the quarterback that picked up for Tom Brady the year he hurt his arm.
Pablo Torre Finds Out
House Call: Why the World's Best Pitchers and Quarterbacks Seek This Man's Advice
Matt Castle was a baseball pitcher at USC. And he said, hey, Tom, is it okay if I bring Tom Brady by? I said, he wants to come by? I said, sure. So Tom showed up, and it happened to be a day when I had 10-year-olds. I think I had a javelin thrower and a golfer besides a couple quarterbacks and a pitcher.