He prepared himself, and it showed in his performance. So you knew that every question he had read probably 20 times, and that’s a lot of questions on the board. I think the other thing, he did it for so long, he had such consistency and it didn’t happen by mistake. You know, oh, no, Henry the VIII, Henry the VI, that kind of thing, just having command over the game and the players. “I thought it was always interesting, you never knew if he really knew the answer or it was just he sold it because it was written on his card. “I think just looking back, that had a lot to do, and then just Alex Trebek in general his command over the game,” the coach said. Schwartz said he admired Trebek for his incredible consistency and always being prepared The 80-year-old worked the show to near perfection until his passing from stage IV pancreatic cancer. You can’t pick a play the way offensive coaches do.”Īnd then there was Trebek. The reason is, you have to react to what personnel group you’re getting, the down and distance, all those different things. You guys see, I very rarely have a play sheet or a call, I might have some notes written down on one small page but that’s about it. There’s that, and when you’re a defensive coach in particular, you’re reacting when you make your play calls. Well, both of them got the right answer, but the other one, the ball was snapped and the running back just ran right past you.
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And somebody else says two plus two and they go (counting on fingers) one-two-three-four. It’s like, hey, what’s two plus two four. I’ve always talked to football players about this. It’s getting the right answer quicker than everybody else. “You look back and see lessons learned from stuff like that and you see the carryovers to football,” Schwartz said. Schwartz said there were real lessons from the show that can be carried over to sports. We were just playing for fun, and it was an ultra-competitive environment.” I didn’t even know I was going to go into coaching. “I was a sophomore and junior in college.
“Obviously, I didn’t think he was training me as a football coach when it was going on,” Schwartz said. Schwartz was asked during his Monday video conference to talk about that influence, and if it was a tribute to the iconic game show host. Some of King’s audience may have thought Trebek helped train Schwartz as a football coach. In an interview over the weekend, longtime national columnist Peter King asked Schwartz about the influence Trebek and Jeopardy! had on his life and profession. One of the show’s biggest fans has always been Eagles defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz. The show intrigued America for generations. Some questions Trebek would ask, you’d think the contestant had a computer operating in his or her head.
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