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The Art of Developing the Modern QB: How Kenny Dillingham Transformed Bo Nix and Jordan Travis' Game

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Kenny Dillingham's time in the Arizona State QB meeting room is a whirlwind. He's built his career on mentoring players like Jordan Travis and Bo Nix, but as the first-year head coach of the Sun Devils, his time with the QBs has to be short and sweet.

 

He's there maybe 10 minutes, and he flicks through a dozen or so clips of film, peppering his quarterbacks with questions.

 

Where's the safety?

 

Where's the free rusher?

 

Which direction should you shift protection?

 

Football knowledge is almost ancillary to the discussion. It's all a math problem, really -- a pretty simple one, at that.

 

"There's a lot of people who want to sound smart, and they think if other people don't know what they know, then they remain powerful," Dillingham said. "My goal is if we have a freshman here, by the time he's a senior, he should know everything I know."

 

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