For those with time, here's a recent 26:54 podcast with Coach Napier: Apple Podcast: 2023 Talking Strategy With Coach Billy Napier Stitcher Podcast: 2023 Talking Strategy With Coach Billy Napier Google Podcast: 2023 Talking Strategy With Coach Billy Napier I haven't fully listened yet but wanted this up for folks to get to hear. Coach Napier starts at 3:17 . . . Here's some of what another site says is included: ON PRESENT OUTCOMES AND FUTURE SUCCESS "I think you get consumed with all the things you know you can do that will affect the outcome if that makes sense. Present actions make future results. We can sit around and worry, but there's no place for that in life. In general, you can have a plan for the day and things we know work. You've got to get good at the basics and execute day after day. Make quality decisions and empower your people. Quality control everything we do and next time we do it, get better at it. Don't make the same mistakes twice. You get us once, great, you're not going to get us again. Ultimately, that's how we've had success in the past. We're always refining the approach we're taking, what we do with our time. It is what it is. "We're going to be successful here, it's just a matter of how fast it's going to happen, that's would I would tell you. I would be hopeful it would happen faster than fast, quickly, but reality is it may take us a little bit of time to get it done. We're going to have to get ... the ball's got to bounce the right way here or there. Think about last year, we lost five games by essentially by one score. If we could play a little bit better at the end of the half, beginning of of the third quarter, play a little better on defense in terms of giving up explosive plays. There's a number of variables that we weren't good at all. Third down defense, red zone offense, lot of areas on our team where we know we sucked. It is what is. We did a lot of things great. We created a lot of explosive plays. There are metrics and lot areas within our team where we were good. We had a heck of a highlight reel, but we were a very inconsistent team." ON DEVELOPING QBs WITHIN A SYSTEM IN SHORT ORDER "I think the rules allow you to do more with the players than you used to be able to do. I think about what we do without team and the quarterback is a microcosm of the team, relative to offseason programs, spring practice, the summer OTAs approach, training camp camp and then in-season. We're really getting five times a year where we're teaching the system start to finish. I think player retention is important. Any system for a quarterback in my opinion, , Year 1 will be somewhat of a learning curve. There's going to be mistakes made. As simple as it may be in your mind as a coach, the player is not there yet. "Very rarely does a quarterback win rookie of the year in the NFL, if that makes sense. Very rarely do you have a true freshman all-conference player at the quarterback position in college football. I think my experience, and we had a number of great players at the position at Alabama, this ties into the entire program philosophy relative to two-spot practice format, development occurs through reps. Players learn by doing. We just try to create a year-round plan where there's reps available." Link to the 247 article discussing the podcast
