Quarterbacks at a QB Collective camp last month. (Photo via twitter.com)

 

Today’s Coach and Coordinator podcast guest is Richmond Flowers III, CEO and founder of QB Collective, which trains high school, college and NFL quarterbacks. Flowers coached four seasons as an offensive assistant for the Washington Redskins under head coach Mike Shanahan, a QB Collective staff member.

Flowers – a wide receiver during his playing days – was drafted in 2001 by the Jacksonville Jaguars and spent three combined seasons on the Dallas Cowboys and Redskins practice squads. Flowers also played in NFL Europe, the Canadian Football League and Arena Football League. He played three years at Duke, before spending his last collegiate season at Tennessee-Chattanooga.

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On today’s show, Flowers and host Keith Grabowski talk about Flowers’ coaching experience and how it helped him create and develop QB Collective.

Show Notes

• 1:46     What is QB Collective?
• 3:48     Instructors at Collective camps
• 8:56     Influence of his father in football
• 10:39   Why he picked Duke to play college football
• 13:03   Meeting Kyle Shanahan at Duke
• 14:57    Experience in the NFL and NFL Europe
• 20:39   Being out of position in the NFL
• 23:04   Takeaways from playing career
• 24:08   Time between playing and coaching football
• 26:35   Differences from playing and coaching
• 30:37   Learning while with the Redskins as a coach
• 39:10   A system to develop players and coaches
• 46:02   Favorite moments from QB Collective camps

 

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