Alex Van Pelt

And so I think that hit... played a role in his ineffectiveness over the course of the second half.

I just wanted to, the interception at the end of the game for me reminded me a little bit of 2024 Drake, like first year starter Drake, where, and I remember the conversation we had once with Alex Van Pelt, where he tried to kind of drill into Drake's head.

If you're going to throw it away, throw it to the tuba player.

Like you said, put it in the first row.

You've mentioned the secondary.

You spent a second on this yesterday, Alex.

Just give it to us again.

How bad is their secondary right now?

Yeah.

Like, you're asking him to, to do too much.

So, and the fumbling problem I think was because Alex Van Pelt overworked him in '24.

What about last year?

They switch coordinators a couple of times on him there.

He comes here and it's Alex Van Pelt.

And then he gets acclimated to Josh McDaniels, who, complicated as his system is, and I know, I've heard Christian Fourier, we used to work with at EEI, say that it's really not that much more complicated.

Yeah, he called it

No, but Josh is very good, and this is the first time in his career Drake has had back-to-back years with the same coordinator and head coach.

Remember, it was the immortal Alex Van Pelt year one helping out Drake.

Yeah, I know.

That's how I knew Drake May was

I believe he's proven that he can work just his work at training camp.

I know he didn't do any 11-on-11, but he was repping everything else, and he obviously has proven to the coaching staff, Alex Van Pelt, that he can work underneath the center, that he can be effective off-play action.

He's more mobile than Tua.

Tua's not mobile at all.

Someone who played the position, somebody who's been coaching it since he got out of college.

What's your style? And if someone was to ask, well, what makes Tommy Reese differently than some of the other candidates for a position or different quarterback coaches or different offensive coordinators, what would you say?

Yeah, I do want to start by saying we have a quarterback coach, Alex Van Pelt, who played in the league, who's been doing it for a long time.

He's done a great job with these guys.

Todd Marinovich, the redshirt freshman quarterback for Southern Cal.

Alex Van Pelt gets the call for Pitt against Syracuse tonight, and Aaron Garcia gets the start for Washington State going up against Wyoming.

I want to remind you, too, of Major League Baseball.

There is one game nearing completion in the American League.

Yeah

... and clearly some maturity issues earlier on in his career, on top of the fact that he got into Bill's dog house and he didn't let him out for the entirety of Kayshon Boutte's rookie season, then comes back the next season and what did we hear? We heard from Alex Van Pelt and we heard from the Patriots brass, I believe it was Ryan Cowden specifically, talked about how he saw a flip switch in Kayshon Boutte-

Yeah

... where AVP, remember he said he didn't know if Kayshon was actually gonna make the roster back in 2024, and then Kayshon becomes one of the most reliable players, a really quality run blocker, a guy who can be trusted in crucial situations.