Exploring the Concept of 'Seeing Ghosts' in Sports

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00:00This quarterback, they're seeing ghosts today, and I've always wanted to hear what that term

00:08means and maybe how we can relate it to seeing ghosts on the golf course, whether it's like

00:14noticing the out of bounds stakes or noticing the lake.

00:17I just wanted to kind of get your sense on what your feelings on seeing ghosts means.

00:22Yeah, it's well, seeing ghosts, it's very applicable to golf because like every time

00:29you take a drop, you have to be fully committed, you know, like it's, I mean, yes, there are

00:35things that you have to account for that are unexpected, but you have to be fully committed

00:40to the play will work.

00:41Like if you go and exit the huddle and you are not a believer that this play will be

00:45successful, like it has no shot before it even gets started.

00:47Yeah, that sounds a lot like picking the wrong club and wrong shot.

00:49Yeah.

00:50Whenever you're standing over, it's like, I need to hit this low.

00:53And like all of a sudden you just forward press just a hair and you miss it right and

00:56hit it off the hosel.

00:57Like, yeah, I've done that.

00:59But it's very similar, I think.

01:01And when you see ghosts, it's you're just not trusting what you're seeing.

01:05So for instance, like you see two safeties, quarterbacks are always taught to read it

01:09from the front to the back.

01:10So you go, you know, throughout your week of prep, you know what the defensive front

01:15is going to look like based on where the nose tackle is, the guard, the like, you know,

01:20where guys are and you know, their tendencies, like when they blitz, do they blitz out of

01:25this formation?

01:26Do they blitz out of this alignment out of this front?

01:29When they blitz out of this front, let's say you have a three down defensive line.

01:32All right.

01:33Well, I know if they have a three down defensive line, I got problems.

01:35So I can have problems left.

01:36I can have problems, right?

01:37I need to make sure the Mike's sorted out.

01:39Like who's the Mike linebacker?

01:40Who are my offensive lineman accounting for?

01:43Is this guy taken to which two are mine?

01:46So three down fronts are hard for down fronts are a little bit more manageable.

01:52But after you had diagnosed the front and where your problems could come from, you look

01:57at the safety and you have to identify coverages.

01:59And when you look at the safeties, you either see two or one and most offenses are saying,

02:05all right, this is a two high safety beater like this throw, this route combination beats

02:12two high safeties.

02:13On the other side, this is a one high safety beater.

02:16So if you see a two high safety beater and all of a sudden they roll to one, you need

02:20to be on your one high safety beater.

02:22If you see one and they rolled a two, you need to go to your two high safety beater.

02:26Then you have man concepts that you can check to if you see man and things like that.

02:30So when you see ghosts, it means that they're really in too high.

02:35But instead of going like this, maybe they went like this.

02:38And then the third corner goes that way and they play like a three cloud, which is basically

02:42a one high safety, but it looks like two.

02:45So you see what people are going to be.

02:48Yeah.

02:49I think I know where they are, but I don't really know where they are.

02:52Like I'm freaking out.

02:53Where's my running back?

02:54You know what I mean?

02:56Did you ever see ghosts when you play?

02:57Oh my God.

02:58Yes.

02:59All the time?

03:00Oh, absolutely.

03:01Yes.

03:02Now sometimes more than others.

03:03And sometimes the game's just moving way too fast.

03:04Yeah.

03:05It's just like, Oh my gosh, this is, or for instance, like you see ghosts where you see

03:10an alignment and all of a sudden, Hey, okay, shoot, they're rolled this way.

03:14I could have pressure this way.

03:16Let me adjust the protection.

03:17Hey, William, you go take this Mike linebacker to the right hand side.

03:22Number 57.

03:23He's yours.

03:24Hey, Mark, you take this guy to the right hand side.

03:26Number 42, he's yours.

03:28And then I'll take number 36.

03:30It's the will linebacker.

03:31Well, you see that you adjust the protection.

03:34Now the shot clock's coming down and you got to snap it.

03:37And all of a sudden they roll back the other way and the safety is coming the other direction

03:40and we're toast.

03:41So like you're seeing ghosts cause you see something, but it's not really, it's not reality.

03:45Like you need to just play and react.

03:47So, um, seeing ghosts is a very real thing.

03:49It's not that dissimilar than, like, I've never played Augusta, but like they always

03:53talk about, um, whole 12 and how, you know, the smart play is to hit it right over the

03:59tongue of the, of the bunker.

04:00Right.

04:01I guess that's what they say to me.

04:03That seems like a really, you have a bunker in the front of Bronco bunker in the back

04:06and I really don't want to be in the bunker in the back.

04:08So I feel like I did bail out left, but long story short, I feel like a lot of players

04:16because of how that hole sits into the terrain overanalyze the wind.

04:21And they're looking at it and they're thinking, okay, I got, I don't, there's no wind up there.

04:25And then the announcers are always like, there's wind just telling you account for the wind.

04:28You're going to hit it and raise Creek.

04:30Like you're going to account for the wind.

04:31I think that's kind of what seeing ghosts is like.

04:33It's not really there, but it is to an extent.

04:37So it's like, it's just seeing things that aren't really reality is what seeing ghosts

04:44is.

04:45And that's a hard thing that to deal with.

04:46And it's a hard thing to shake really as a quarterback.

04:49It really is.

04:50It's terrible.

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