Tom House
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105 appearances
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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I felt this, what should I have felt?
Oh yeah. And then if he didn't think I was paying attention, he'd screw something up.
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.
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.
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.
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
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—
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?
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.
I don't know. Because it hurts.
Yeah, if you're 93, 94, you're lucky to be in the first three rounds of a draft.
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.
As soon as their weak links started getting matched up with their strong links, velocities went off the chart.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
And rightful so because it was illegal. Don't necessarily mean you can be skilled.
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