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Can Ohio State DE Nick Bosa be better than his big brother Joey? A story about the tricks including religious dedication to stretching that have helped Nick blossom into the best player in college football. https://t.co/FpNwXSoX69
— Pete Thamel (@PeteThamel) September 11, 2018
Pete Thamel came out with a great read on Nick Bosa today. He writes about how Nick has benefited from Joey's "meat-headedness" and has picked up on some techniques to help make him great. I pulled out some quotes from the article that I liked:
on learning from Joey's mistakes:
Joey Bosa missed the opening game of the 2015 Buckeyes season with a suspension and partied too much early in his career, having to eventually live by himself at Ohio State. These days, he abstains from alcohol and sugar and hired a private coach to work on his flexibility and injury prevention. Nick Bosa, a junior headed for an inevitable NFL departure, has watched and learned everything, including transforming his body through borrowing his brother’s intricate stretching routine. “In a way, Nick has benefited from Joey’s extraordinary meat-headedness,” joked OSU strength coach Mickey Marotti.
on Nick's new stretching routine:
Every day since the summer of 2017, Nick Bosa has executed a dynamic stretching routine with the help of an Ohio State athletic trainer named Tyler Deam. Bosa learned it from his brother’s personal trainer, former Chargers strength and conditioning coach Todd Rice, who Marotti spoke with about the theory behind it.
For a half-hour every day – sometimes it’s two or three times a day – Nick Bosa goes through a “full lower extremity stretch” of his hamstrings, hip flexors, groin muscles, calves, glutes and quads.
results from the stretching routine:
The results have worked. According to Marotti, Nick Bosa can run the 10-yard dash – a key metric to gauge a lineman’s burst – in 1.53 seconds timed electronically. The fastest time of any lineman at the combine last season was 1.55, and the average lineman time was 1.68. (Joey’s was 1.68 at the 2016 combine.)
and praise for Coach Johnson:
Nick Bosa became convinced of Johnson’s techniques when he watched film of his brother his freshman season, when he learned under former line coach Mike Vrabel. Nick saw his brother just bowling over opponents with power, as he didn’t start using refined techniques – side scissor-hand swipes, hip flips and power steps – until Johnson arrived the next season. “He doesn’t just coach kids, he invests in them,” Ohio State coach Urban Meyer said this spring. “And he invests everything he has.”
check out the rest of the article if you're interested - I always enjoy reading Pete's perspective on OSU related things. I'm going to start stretching every day and hopefully I'll be able to play DE in a couple of years...
