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What Does a Head Coach Do? · NFL explained.

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Speaker 1: m ROV introduction. I'm trying my best. Did I bring
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Speaker 1: it like you would? Your voice conveys way more emotion
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Speaker 1: than mine does, but I was trying to do the
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Speaker 1: intro like you would do it. It's a brand new
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Speaker 1: edition of NFL Explained, Mike Yam Michael robinsons with me.
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Speaker 1: I'm trying to match your energy level and your positivity,
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Speaker 1: So I promise. As we are teasing head coaches and
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Speaker 1: saying they won't really do anything, I'm going to say
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Speaker 1: it would a smile on people can hear the smile
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Speaker 1: through the sound waves through the airways. Man. But I'm
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Speaker 1: doing great. It's another football week. Can't wait to talk
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Speaker 1: some Yes. Well, part of that conversation, and I'm touching
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Speaker 1: on it a little bit, is the fact of we
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Speaker 1: watch all these games. We see these head coaches on
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Speaker 1: the sidelines, and I know what you're thinking, like, what
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Speaker 1: are these dudes actually do? Right? Like it's game day.
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Speaker 1: They got coordinators, they got you know, different dudes run
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Speaker 1: around the position coaches. The whole thing. We've all seen
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Speaker 1: hard knocks. We've seen how big the coaches rooms actually are.
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Speaker 1: It feels like they're just dudes. Like CEO is almost
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Speaker 1: just saying, hey, point one direction, get this done for me.
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Speaker 1: It's getting a little bit more CEO ish as we
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Speaker 1: you know, evolved. But I'm glad I get to talk
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Speaker 1: about it today. I can finally say what I want
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Speaker 1: to say about head coaches. But get fined, you know
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Speaker 1: what I mean. You know, when you're a player, you
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Speaker 1: can find you say some negative things about the head coach.
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Speaker 1: Ye do we do? We beg you're going And I've
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Speaker 1: heard from you. You've actually gotten phone calls after some
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Speaker 1: of the things that you've said about head coaches in
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Speaker 1: commercial breaks. But I'm not even getting paid by him anymore.
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Speaker 1: I'm in the media and I still get the call.
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Speaker 1: And you and you told that coach you can't find
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Speaker 1: me this time, not gonna happen. Look, and there's some
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Speaker 1: coaches that are out there. You've got the old heads,
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Speaker 1: the O g so to speak to belichicks of the
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Speaker 1: world that certainly come to mind. You got the mcveighs.
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Speaker 1: On the other side, it feels like it runs gamut
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Speaker 1: in terms of personality style. The whole thing. Is there
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Speaker 1: really a need though, I think that almost might because
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Speaker 1: we always hear this phrase like, oh, they're professionals out there,
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Speaker 1: do you actually, like really need a head coach? I
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Speaker 1: know that sounds sort of ridiculous because of what we're
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Speaker 1: used to, but like to not really know some of
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Speaker 1: the intricacies, I think someone might ask that question. I'll
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Speaker 1: start by saying this, I believe, Mike, that every human
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Speaker 1: being walking the planet needs a coach. So I'll start
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Speaker 1: by saying that because some days we wake up some
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Speaker 1: days we are motivated, some days we you know, we're
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Speaker 1: wake up on the bad hone, the wrong side of
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Speaker 1: the pillow. Sometimes sometimes you just need somebody to help,
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Speaker 1: uh kindle that fire that's already inside of you said,
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Speaker 1: you need to try to help bring it out, and
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Speaker 1: a head coaching football is no different, right. It helps
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Speaker 1: provide direction. And again, I only play for a few
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Speaker 1: head coaches in the National Football League, so my experience
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Speaker 1: is a little limited. But I'll talk about Pete Carroll
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Speaker 1: because I know a lot of our listeners know exactly
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Speaker 1: who Pete Carroll is. He provided direction for us, and
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Speaker 1: I know that's very simple and you know whatever, But
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Speaker 1: it's a lot of different layers to it. He had
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Speaker 1: different messaging. So I was with the Seattle Seas from
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Speaker 1: my last season was season four seasons and the messaging,
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Speaker 1: especially early in the season in when I first got there,
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Speaker 1: was totally different than the messaging he was saying in
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Speaker 1: the season when we had the quarterback, we knew our
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Speaker 1: defense worked, we had the running back, and Beast was
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Speaker 1: a generational like we had of all the pieces in.
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Speaker 1: He was more talking like, hey, guys, we're gonna be
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Speaker 1: a thorn in some people's behinds. Man the like, we're
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Speaker 1: not gonna be a hard out. I know I just
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Speaker 1: got here. And I'm talking to Pete Carroll. He's like,
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Speaker 1: I know, I just got here. I know where we
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Speaker 1: broke all they broke. We broke a record for like
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Speaker 1: transactions like two or some transactions during like I don't know,
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Speaker 1: training camp or something like that. It was a lot, right,
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Speaker 1: we were getting guys in and out of the locker room.
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Speaker 1: We should actually play a game in the locker room,
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Speaker 1: like all right, we're gonna guess who's going to walk
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Speaker 1: through here today. It was that many guys going in
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Speaker 1: and out of the line. We would we would try
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Speaker 1: to guess it, but that was the messaging in better
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Speaker 1: by the way coming in and going out. Absolutely yeah um.
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Speaker 1: And we went to the playoffs with the seven and
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Speaker 1: nine record eleven. It changed a little bit because our
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Speaker 1: team was a little bit better. We still didn't quite
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Speaker 1: find the quarterback. We found our quarterback. We knew that
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Speaker 1: the league was on notice, we knew that we were
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Speaker 1: one of the best teams in the league. We knew
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Speaker 1: that this was kind of our time, and Pete provided
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Speaker 1: that direction. He told us where we needed to go,
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Speaker 1: and obviously we responded to it. How often did you
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Speaker 1: see coaches being willing to evolve? Because I I'm looking
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Speaker 1: at you and you're telling me about some of your
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Speaker 1: experiences in the NFL. I'm thinking back to one of
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Speaker 1: our previous episodes when we talk about evolutions of offenses
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Speaker 1: and quarterbacks, and you know the story in your recruiting
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Speaker 1: process at Penn State dual threat or you were a
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Speaker 1: real dual threat quarterback, and that wasn't something that Joe Paterno,
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Speaker 1: for example, it was used to seeing. I think about
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Speaker 1: him as old school as it really gets, and yet
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Speaker 1: he was willing to make those changes. The adaptability factor
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Speaker 1: are the more experienced guys less willing to make those changes. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: because doing what they've done in the past got them
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Speaker 1: to where they are. So they're like, well, why would
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Speaker 1: I change when that version of myself has elevated me
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Speaker 1: to get in the job of my dreams being a
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Speaker 1: head coach on whatever level that that that may be.
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Speaker 1: But I will say this, deadlines force change. Deadlines force change.
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Speaker 1: We know that in business. We know that anytime there's
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Speaker 1: a you know, the trade deadline, you hear nothing about
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Speaker 1: a damn trade and then all of a sudden, twenty
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Speaker 1: four hours before the trade deadline comes all of these
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Speaker 1: speculation things, you know, stuff starts to happen. And even
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Speaker 1: with Joe Paternal, I think the change happened because, first
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Speaker 1: of all, college football changed, and then I think it
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Speaker 1: was pressure from the board of trust and he's the
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Speaker 1: fire I think there was pressure. There's pressure from front
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Speaker 1: offices and owners on head coaches, whether you're young or
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Speaker 1: the year old, but especially because we talk about some
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Speaker 1: of the older ones, you better change or you lose
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Speaker 1: your job. You see what I'm saying that that that
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Speaker 1: that that deadline is the losing your job part. And
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Speaker 1: when you get nine and will say threatened. But when
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Speaker 1: you get presented with that type of the situation, head
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Speaker 1: coaches are in one of those situations, whether they're like
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Speaker 1: I either gotta get with the program or die sticking
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Speaker 1: with my program, which most of them evolved. Well, m Rob,
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Speaker 1: you know the younger guys, Pete Carroll as you made reference,
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Speaker 1: who is not necessarily a young guy anymore but has
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Speaker 1: sort of that that young way about him and obviously
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Speaker 1: came from USC, Joe pa Turner, sort of the old
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Speaker 1: school mentality. I want to take you through some new
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Speaker 1: head coaches. Thirty two head coaches in the NFL. Ten
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Speaker 1: of the thirty two are in the first year with
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Speaker 1: their teams. Mike McDaniel, Brian Dayball, not I Reflus, Nathaniel Hackett,
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Speaker 1: Kevin O'Connell, Todd Bowles, Doug Peterson, Dennis Allen, Lovey Smith,
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Speaker 1: and Josh McDaniels, just to name those guys that are
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Speaker 1: out there. Okay, so there's a physical goal appearance for
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Speaker 1: some of the coaches in the league. They just look young,
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Speaker 1: and guess what, because they are young. As of this season,
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Speaker 1: the average age of an NFL coaches forty nine point
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Speaker 1: two years old. There are nineteen coaches over forty and
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Speaker 1: thirteen under that age. Yeah, let's start with the offseason
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Speaker 1: where the NFL coaches have a little bit of a
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Speaker 1: letter schedule, though, because I think it's important for us
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Speaker 1: to kind of dive into what a lot of these
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Speaker 1: guys are doing on a regular basis offseason. You're like, oh, yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's light. No, it's still kind of busy here. You've
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Speaker 1: got staffing issues that you need to address, coaches that
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Speaker 1: are leaving, moving on, guys that you need to replace
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Speaker 1: them with. You're sitting down with your general manager talking
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Speaker 1: about free agents, draft strategy. My lord, I know the
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Speaker 1: conversations that happened in this building around the draft, and
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Speaker 1: it's pretty epic. There's only one head coach who has
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Speaker 1: the role of GM that title and coach. That's Bill Belichick. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: you've done that before. We heard that some of the
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Speaker 1: most successful early head coaches that were also GMS early
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Speaker 1: Curly Lambeau, Paul Brown. I know you like that one.
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Speaker 1: George Hallis, Vince Lombardi shout out for Ham University. Bill Parcels,
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Speaker 1: by the way, notoriously said about being a coach GM cool.
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Speaker 1: They want you to cook the dinner. They can at
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Speaker 1: least let you buy the groceries. Perfect. Yeah, I'm also
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Speaker 1: the dude that doesn't want to buy the groceries but
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Speaker 1: definitely wants to eat and doesn't want to cook. That's
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Speaker 1: my role. I do go to the grocery shopping at
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Speaker 1: my household. There seems to be a little bit of
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Speaker 1: a weird disconnect when there comes to the general manager
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Speaker 1: that makes personnel decisions and a coach that just has
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Speaker 1: to deal with it and make the best of it.
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Speaker 1: Pete Carroll and you brought him up earlier in this podcast,
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Speaker 1: he's not GM slash coach. He's the executive vice president
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Speaker 1: of football Operations. Basically, what that means he actually has
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Speaker 1: a huge say in personnel as the guy that's on
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Speaker 1: the sidelines m rob that also has a saying who's
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Speaker 1: on his team. Is there a benefit to what they're
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Speaker 1: doing up there. It is a small benefit, just being
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Speaker 1: that you do want your head coach who represents the
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Speaker 1: coaching staff, and that you want those guys involved in
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Speaker 1: the scenael decisions because those are the guys who have
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Speaker 1: to deal with the personnel on a day to day
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Speaker 1: basis and make the schemes come off the paper into reality,
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Speaker 1: and that involves, you know, dealing with the players during
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Speaker 1: with personnel. So I do think that's a good set up.
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Speaker 1: I look at it as like this. I know you
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Speaker 1: just explained all that business stuff, you know, and I
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Speaker 1: get it. You know, we live in the Western world,
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Speaker 1: and you know we gotta have it as capitalism, and
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Speaker 1: you've got titles and all that type of stuff. From
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Speaker 1: a player's standpoint, this would it looks like to me,
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Speaker 1: It looks like a good cop bad cops. This looks
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Speaker 1: like an opportunity during negotiations, during whatever the case may be.
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Speaker 1: And I'm just gonna use Pete and John because those
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Speaker 1: my guys, those guys I know. But I'm talking about
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Speaker 1: all gms and head coaches and which head coaches who
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Speaker 1: have a little bit of a business role as well.
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Speaker 1: Hey man, who gonna play bad cop? Today? Who gonna
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Speaker 1: play a good cop? You know, where's the price point? Okay,
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Speaker 1: this is where we want to sign them from. Okay,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell him how much we love him in
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Speaker 1: this that in the third you're gonna hit him with
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Speaker 1: the business side, and when he gets upset, I'm I'm
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Speaker 1: get him over here with me. Tell them how much
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Speaker 1: I love him and you, and they just go and
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Speaker 1: they do the dance. And I think it's it's good
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Speaker 1: to be able to have somebody who exclusively looks at personnel,
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Speaker 1: being that general manager role. And it also, again from
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Speaker 1: a coaching standpoint, who has to deal with the player
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Speaker 1: every day, gives somebody to blame stuff on. Hey man,
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Speaker 1: it's just john Man, it's Johnson. He wanted to let
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Speaker 1: you go. That won't me. Man, I love you, you
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Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. That's a good card backup dynamic.
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Speaker 1: It does make some sense, but it also strikes me
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Speaker 1: as really difficult to balance both of those roles because
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Speaker 1: that's a lot of responsibility. You gotta delegate, man, but
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Speaker 1: then you're not your fingertips aren't on everything then, And
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Speaker 1: it's only twenty four hours in a day, but you
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Speaker 1: gotta sleep for eight hours. That gives you sixty. I mean,
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Speaker 1: you got family, it's only it's only limited. So you
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Speaker 1: have to be able to do the research on your
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Speaker 1: coaching staff to know that the guys you have around
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Speaker 1: you are going to do the work. That's why you
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Speaker 1: see so many guys take their homies and friends that
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Speaker 1: get into the level job. They just got rocket up
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Speaker 1: the organizations because it's all about trust against human relationships.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the NFL Explained podcast. Okay, so, as
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Speaker 1: far as the responsibilities are concerned, I mentioned the staffing
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Speaker 1: issues that are there. You got league meetings, you got
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Speaker 1: offseason programs, strength and conditioning workouts in April early May,
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Speaker 1: you got the Rookie Football Development Program, rookie Minicamp in
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Speaker 1: mid May. You got voluntary O t A s in
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Speaker 1: May and June, you got mandatory minicamp in June. How
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Speaker 1: important is the head coach when it comes to those
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Speaker 1: activities like infseason. Yeah? Oh man, Like they're not you know,
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Speaker 1: taking you through those workouts the coaches they put I mean,
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Speaker 1: you know, you see Pete Carrot throwing the football around,
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Speaker 1: but they're not really doing nothing for real. They just
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Speaker 1: you know, they're just having a good time and whatever.
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Speaker 1: But I will say this, just like I started off
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Speaker 1: the podcast and saying, they still provide direction. So yeah,
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Speaker 1: we may not meet every day with the head coach
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Speaker 1: in the off season, but we do meet every week,
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Speaker 1: and that one meeting that when big team meeting will
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Speaker 1: have a week. Yeah, the coach will talk about the goals.
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Speaker 1: They'll talk about, Hey, man, we got some fat guys
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Speaker 1: I'm looking at I'm looking at the weights coming in. Man,
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Speaker 1: you need to stop your extracrict activity or we got
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Speaker 1: the draft coming up. You know what I'm saying. These
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Speaker 1: are the holes in our roster. You know what I'm saying,
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Speaker 1: these are the needs. We just again putting everybody on point,
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Speaker 1: making sure everybody's focusing on the right thing. And then schedule,
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Speaker 1: that's so important. Like football players just need to know
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Speaker 1: the schedule. The schedule is probably the most posted thing
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Speaker 1: on any NFL locker room, is on every TV, It's
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Speaker 1: on everything. When do I gotta go in for workouts?
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Speaker 1: When do I gotta talk to my coach? When do
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Speaker 1: I got treatment? And when can I get the hell
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Speaker 1: out of this building so I go see my family?
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Speaker 1: I mean in the coach is vitolin setting those landmarks
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Speaker 1: and setting the schedule very important. Rex Ryan obviously was
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Speaker 1: a former head coach. He actually said his biggest regret
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Speaker 1: in coaching was missing the birth of one of his children.
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Speaker 1: He said, quote, I missed that one not recommended. That's
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Speaker 1: my biggest regret in coaching. That's you know, like this
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Speaker 1: is a labor, love, and a lot of I won't
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Speaker 1: miss my sons. Yeah, we got to a certain point.
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Speaker 1: We were playing Tennessee hous with four to nine. As
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Speaker 1: we're playing Tennessee that Sunday and the doctor, we talked,
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Speaker 1: if we get to Tuesday that week and he ain't here,
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Speaker 1: we didn't do it. Tuesday came, We walked in, We
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Speaker 1: was partying, we had the music on. We induced he
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Speaker 1: came when we had him come, ye part Now I
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Speaker 1: don't have children. I can't imagine how many people who
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Speaker 1: are listening to this post. You had music going going.
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Speaker 1: I got a whole video I edited and everything that
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Speaker 1: does sound like a type of move here. Let's talk
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Speaker 1: a little bit about your typical Monday through Saturday for
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Speaker 1: an NFL coach. He got a ton of meetings various people.
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Speaker 1: You got full team meetings almost on a daily basis.
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Speaker 1: They're sitting in on offensive defenses and special team meetings,
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Speaker 1: position group meeting. Most have regular conversations with their team
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Speaker 1: owners along with front office executives. Most meet regularly with
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Speaker 1: player leadership committees. Uh and Rob, you know about that
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Speaker 1: because I know you were that dude. Various meetings with others.
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Speaker 1: He got training staff, strength and conditioning coaches, you got
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Speaker 1: quarterback gurus that it might be helping out. You've got
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Speaker 1: obligations to the media that you have to go and do.
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Speaker 1: Can't you just get one zoom going and just be like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's a rap no, because that you know that that
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Speaker 1: leadership committee. Uh yeah, I've been on a lot of them,
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Speaker 1: and you'd be surprised some of the things that have
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Speaker 1: been You haven't seen that show first forty eight when
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Speaker 1: he put the spotlight on the criminal and then they
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Speaker 1: start asking them questions and then you stop seeing them
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Speaker 1: shaking and start folding a way. Man, it'd be a
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Speaker 1: bunch of telling on people in the meeting. Sometimes I'll
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Speaker 1: be like, may shut up, Mike. I have taken more
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Speaker 1: fines in those meetings because I will not tell on
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Speaker 1: my teammates. I have personally taken the fine because I
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Speaker 1: will not tell on my teammates' golden take. Did I
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Speaker 1: said that out loud? He was it out? He was
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Speaker 1: actually up here. Yeah, he did a show. He held
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Speaker 1: me ten thousand dollars and I and I ain't gonna
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Speaker 1: say what it was for on this podcast, but maybe
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Speaker 1: snitching man, because you know the coach be like, hey,
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Speaker 1: what's going on? Man? You know what's going on with
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Speaker 1: the team. Do we need to go? Do we need
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Speaker 1: to take the pads off? You know me, I'm full
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Speaker 1: back away say yeah, may take the pass off and
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Speaker 1: take paths on my defensive lineman. They hurt my officsive linement.
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Speaker 1: They heard the quarterback got touched last week. Take the paths,
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Speaker 1: you know what's stuff like that. But man, guys be snitching.
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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna talk about and again you are listening.
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Speaker 1: Can you give me an example. You're not gonna call
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Speaker 1: anyone out our listeners can guess. I've only played for
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Speaker 1: two teams, Mike, Okay, it's not very hard. I only
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Speaker 1: played for the Services before the nine US and the
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Speaker 1: Seattle Seahawks. Man, I've been a part of a meeting
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Speaker 1: man with this dude, and in that meeting and coach saying, hey, man,
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Speaker 1: so what's going on? And he just started spitting all
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Speaker 1: the types of stuff to the point where guys are like, dude,
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Speaker 1: shut up. Yep, I'm not gonna say who the guy was.
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Speaker 1: I played with a lot of different guys than that.
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Speaker 1: To the football league, Mike. I'm just saying sometimes that
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Speaker 1: turns into a big title tell fest. But head coaches
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Speaker 1: in season, let's see whyhould transition back. We steer this
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Speaker 1: thing back. Head coaches in season. Look, man, you think
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Speaker 1: they're meeting with they they have staff meetings early every day,
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Speaker 1: right because think about it. I talked about the head coach.
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Speaker 1: I'm a professional talker. This is what I do. Okay,
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Speaker 1: coaches have to set the direction and so every part
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Speaker 1: of that football building has to be on the same page.
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Speaker 1: And we want our super Bowl in Seattle. Every I'm
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Speaker 1: talking about the janitor, which was ended up being beast
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Speaker 1: most uncle. The janitor knew what we were trying to do.
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Speaker 1: We wanted to dynastay. Everybody was on the same page.
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Speaker 1: You have staff meetings with everybody in the organization. You
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Speaker 1: got the medical staff, everybody, nutritions, everybody talking everything. Then
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Speaker 1: you have a straight coaches meeting. You gotta talk about
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Speaker 1: the coaches, how the issues from medical staff, How does
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Speaker 1: that going on with the game plan this week? That's
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Speaker 1: gonna affect the personnel changes that could possibly happen. I'm
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Speaker 1: talking about this happening on Monday, when Tuesdays when you
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Speaker 1: bring in players in to work them out, to see
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Speaker 1: if they could be on your roster for that week.
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Speaker 1: So again, and that's before the team and we talked
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Speaker 1: about the team meeting where the coach actually has to
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Speaker 1: you know, talk to the team and the players and
17:23
Speaker 1: things like that. So it's a lot that goes on
17:26
Speaker 1: and Mike, usually team meetings, which is the last of
17:28
Speaker 1: the meetings I'm talking about teamings, usually happen eight o'clock
17:31
Speaker 1: in the all. So what I'm saying is there's a
17:33
Speaker 1: lot that goes on before that meeting that the head
17:35
Speaker 1: coach has to go through. One thing you haven't mentioned
17:38
Speaker 1: is film study. And that's all I ever hear about
17:40
Speaker 1: from a player's perspective or the players that don't do it,
17:44
Speaker 1: which we don't need to get into. That was chronicles
17:47
Speaker 1: before the season started. But also the coaches take me
17:49
Speaker 1: through that. So a head coach looks at film. A
17:52
Speaker 1: lot of times, a head coach is looking at those
17:55
Speaker 1: looking at tape and stuff when players have to be
17:58
Speaker 1: in other areas. Players may be going through their position meetings,
18:02
Speaker 1: players may be going through workouts, whatever the case may be,
18:05
Speaker 1: with the head coach and have to be there. That's
18:07
Speaker 1: when he's going through his tape that's when he's set
18:09
Speaker 1: in a direction. That's when he's saying, Okay, yeah, you
18:11
Speaker 1: know we're playing a high flying offense, we might have
18:14
Speaker 1: to run the ball a little bit more. Again, I'm
18:16
Speaker 1: not saying called the play. I'm saying, set the philosophical
18:22
Speaker 1: direction for that week. That's what the head coach is
18:25
Speaker 1: doing when he's watching tape and things like that. So, yeah,
18:28
Speaker 1: tape was all over the place. Position coaches and coordinators
18:32
Speaker 1: probably watch a little bit more tape, you know what
18:35
Speaker 1: I'm saying, because again, they're the ones dealing directly with
18:39
Speaker 1: the player. Given the player the tools and his tool
18:41
Speaker 1: belt so that the guy can go out there and
18:43
Speaker 1: do his job. And then there's practice. Oh yeah, there's practice.
18:47
Speaker 1: We just got the practice. Yeah. I feel like I've
18:49
Speaker 1: been talking forever and we just got the practice. We
18:51
Speaker 1: did practice. Generally, we're talking about Wednesday through Saturday. If
18:55
Speaker 1: it's a road week, a little different because of travel
18:57
Speaker 1: on either Friday or Saturday. There's a full practice on Wednesday,
19:01
Speaker 1: and then the practices actually get shorter as the week
19:05
Speaker 1: progress is there and then you got essentially no pads
19:08
Speaker 1: on Saturday. Why even bother all I hear about from well,
19:12
Speaker 1: the full pad deal, like, why are we in pads
19:15
Speaker 1: this much? And I know it's been cut down, but
19:17
Speaker 1: all I keep hearing about is dudes struggling to get
19:20
Speaker 1: out of bed. The pain that's They're like, why even
19:22
Speaker 1: bother going is there? Really is okay? When I decided
19:27
Speaker 1: to play for a long time ago, when I got
19:29
Speaker 1: a scholarship to go to Penn State, when I got
19:30
Speaker 1: drafted and decided to sign that signing bonus and cash
19:34
Speaker 1: that check, I signed up for eggs and pains and
19:37
Speaker 1: getting out the bed slow and all that. I know
19:39
Speaker 1: exactly what I signed up for. I'll make an example
19:42
Speaker 1: like this. So, Mike, you're a great host, bro. Amazing,
19:47
Speaker 1: like the way you are able to handle ideas. Sometimes
19:50
Speaker 1: I see the teleprompt to be breaking on t A
19:51
Speaker 1: and you still be handled it doing all your things.
19:54
Speaker 1: It's amazing, all seriously, but you're able to do that
19:57
Speaker 1: right because you had reps. You had the reps of
20:02
Speaker 1: messing up a few times. Not doing it is perfectly
20:05
Speaker 1: I wanted to do. And so now you've gotten to
20:07
Speaker 1: a point where you know, I do my thing. Even
20:09
Speaker 1: if I do mess up, I ain't really mess up
20:10
Speaker 1: because you know what I'm saying that's that's what I do.
20:12
Speaker 1: Same thing with football players. They need the work with
20:15
Speaker 1: full pads on because that's what the game is played
20:19
Speaker 1: in full pads. You know what I'm saying, Um, I
20:22
Speaker 1: get taken care of the player. I get that the
20:25
Speaker 1: rules have kind of parred down a little bit where
20:27
Speaker 1: you're not in pads every week, or you don't have
20:29
Speaker 1: to be in pads every week. And yes, you do
20:31
Speaker 1: have to take some of the hits off the guys.
20:33
Speaker 1: But look, I played fullback and we had a podcast
20:35
Speaker 1: before I said, I used to tell some of the
20:37
Speaker 1: scout guys, hey, look bro, I know we don't have
20:40
Speaker 1: passed today, but I need you to go put on
20:42
Speaker 1: your path because I need that work at the end
20:44
Speaker 1: of practice. You gotta get laded up. Football is a
20:47
Speaker 1: physical sport. You cannot play the game of football without
20:50
Speaker 1: doing physical activities, and that's practicing with your pads on.
20:53
Speaker 1: It's also interesting too, because I've heard this over the years,
20:56
Speaker 1: and not to make this a college thing, because I
20:58
Speaker 1: know it does happen occasionally in the pros, but I'll
20:59
Speaker 1: reference it because I know first half when USC and
21:02
Speaker 1: Willie would be made. First off, I'm bringing this up.
21:05
Speaker 1: But when US was dealing with a lot of sanctions,
21:06
Speaker 1: they were low on numbers and to combatant, they weren't
21:09
Speaker 1: tackling in practice. And then all of a sudden you
21:12
Speaker 1: saw tackling become an issue in some of their games
21:14
Speaker 1: because just dudes weren't doing that during the course of
21:17
Speaker 1: the week. So I think what you're speaking to in
21:19
Speaker 1: terms of reps is a real thing. Early on in
21:21
Speaker 1: football seasons, we mike you hear man, We see Twitter,
21:24
Speaker 1: we see social media. We got to deal with it
21:26
Speaker 1: on some of the shows here at NFL Network had
21:28
Speaker 1: of fans are like, oh man, it's going on. My
21:30
Speaker 1: guys are missing. We see it every week. The first
21:32
Speaker 1: six weeks of the season are essentially preseason. It's essentially
21:36
Speaker 1: guys getting enough game reps to master the craft. Yeah, no,
21:40
Speaker 1: I'm with you there. One other note, by the way,
21:42
Speaker 1: on coaches and their schedules, because I think a lot
21:45
Speaker 1: of people watch Thursday Night Football on Amazon. What's fascinating
21:49
Speaker 1: to me is the amount of times that you hear
21:53
Speaker 1: Al Michael's and Herb Street talk about the meetings that
21:55
Speaker 1: they're having with players and coaches. That is a huge
21:58
Speaker 1: part of the broadcast and part of their responsibility ahead
22:01
Speaker 1: of the game to give you some intel, talk to
22:03
Speaker 1: you about some things off the records and things really
22:06
Speaker 1: some things on the record, to get a sense of
22:07
Speaker 1: what's about to happen during the course of the week.
22:10
Speaker 1: The point is, coach is pretty damn busy coming up
22:12
Speaker 1: next here. I don't know what you're thinking. They're getting paid, right,
22:15
Speaker 1: it's all about the Benjamin's find out about those page
22:18
Speaker 1: checks a little bit more. Will we come back here
22:20
Speaker 1: on the NFL Explained podcast Welcome back to the NFL
22:30
Speaker 1: Explained Podcasts. I made reference to it in our last episodes.
22:33
Speaker 1: Nothing wrong with sliding into the d m s. You
22:35
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. At Real Mike rob at Mike Underscore. Yeam,
22:39
Speaker 1: we've been getting questions from you. I'm legit excited. We've
22:42
Speaker 1: gotten some good ones so far. If there's a topic
22:44
Speaker 1: or a question you want answered, I promise we will
22:47
Speaker 1: work it into our mail bag episodes. So keep some
22:50
Speaker 1: of those comments and those questions coming our way. But
22:53
Speaker 1: I had made reference to some of the cash and
22:57
Speaker 1: the checks, Like at the end of the day, everyone
22:59
Speaker 1: knows a lot of these players are making serious money.
23:01
Speaker 1: I mean We're always referring to a lot of those contracts,
23:04
Speaker 1: but NFL coaching allies not always released to the public.
23:08
Speaker 1: So we put together, we got a little bit of data,
23:10
Speaker 1: we know some people who know some people. UH put
23:12
Speaker 1: together in NFL head coaching salary, sort of list a
23:16
Speaker 1: couple of notable contracts and just sort of some sources
23:19
Speaker 1: that we really trust. The average coach three to four
23:22
Speaker 1: million per year on the low end and over ten
23:25
Speaker 1: million a year on the high end. Pete Carroll not
23:28
Speaker 1: that we need to be blowing up anyone's salaries, and
23:31
Speaker 1: we're gonna do it anyway, signed an extension eleven plus
23:34
Speaker 1: mill in December of our guy Ian Rappaport, he said
23:38
Speaker 1: he signed another five year extension to make him one
23:40
Speaker 1: of the most highly compensated, if not the highest paid
23:43
Speaker 1: coach in the NFL. That five year extension that was
23:46
Speaker 1: reported by Adam Schefter in eighteen. Rappaport had those original numbers.
23:51
Speaker 1: Cincinnati Zach Taylor he signed an undisclosed extension this offseason
23:55
Speaker 1: after being one of the lowest paid NFL coaches at
23:58
Speaker 1: three point seven five million dollars per year. That's according
24:01
Speaker 1: to Schefiters. Yeah, it's nice toning that and look, I
24:05
Speaker 1: know people are like, Mike, did you just say three
24:07
Speaker 1: point seven five? That's all. If the most important position
24:11
Speaker 1: is the quarterback position, and that guy's salary is ballooning
24:15
Speaker 1: around forty million per and you're supposed to be one
24:18
Speaker 1: of those guys that can make those guys one of
24:20
Speaker 1: the best in the league, I think you should make
24:22
Speaker 1: more than three and a half million. Get to a
24:24
Speaker 1: super Bowl that help get you that raise. David Culley
24:29
Speaker 1: at Houston signy fully guaranteed four year, twenty two million
24:32
Speaker 1: dollar contract, fired after one season, bring me the cash,
24:36
Speaker 1: ship me my bread and didn't fire me. You were
24:39
Speaker 1: here from me for the next three years. Money well spent,
24:44
Speaker 1: I would say yes, especially the ones that have a
24:47
Speaker 1: proven track record, like the ones you know obviously, the Belichecks,
24:50
Speaker 1: the Pete Carroll's, the guys that have been proven to
24:52
Speaker 1: go places and when I think they should, especially when
24:55
Speaker 1: you look at the TV money, the ballooning salaries of players.
24:59
Speaker 1: I mean, if everybody, if all ships arise and truly
25:02
Speaker 1: let all ship, I think head coaches should make more.
25:06
Speaker 1: And I do think the ones that can go into
25:08
Speaker 1: any football situation and help their team, I mean by this.
25:12
Speaker 1: You got your Sean mcveigh's, your offensive gurules, you got
25:15
Speaker 1: your ta bows, your defensive gurus and play callers. Those guys, Okay,
25:19
Speaker 1: to Bowl sees the game, certain leins, Okay, he sees
25:23
Speaker 1: the game happening. He's gonna always look at well, how
25:25
Speaker 1: can we stop them from doing the positive? You see
25:29
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Because that's a that's a defensive concept,
25:31
Speaker 1: that's a defensive way of thinking. Sean McVeigh is gonna
25:34
Speaker 1: always be an attack mode. He's always gonna say, oh,
25:37
Speaker 1: they're scoring, Okay, how can we score more? You see
25:40
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. It's a different way of looking at it.
25:42
Speaker 1: But when you got that coach and again I had
25:45
Speaker 1: your paternal in college, but there's coaches out there in
25:47
Speaker 1: the national football they get e Bill Belichick whatever who
25:50
Speaker 1: And I know Bill Belichick has a defensive specialty to it,
25:53
Speaker 1: but can walk into any situation at halftime. Remember being
25:57
Speaker 1: down by two touchdowns. I think it was the Green
25:59
Speaker 1: Bay may have been to somebody else with the Seattle Seahawks,
26:02
Speaker 1: and Pete Carroll walked into the offensive side and say, hey,
26:04
Speaker 1: I know we're down by fourteen points, but we're gonna
26:06
Speaker 1: go twenty two personnel with just two tight ends and
26:08
Speaker 1: two running backs and one while receiving we're gonna go
26:10
Speaker 1: twenty two and twenty one personnel, arrested the game and
26:13
Speaker 1: we're gonna win. And we looked like but that goes
26:16
Speaker 1: against conventional wisdom. He saw something, he saw that he
26:19
Speaker 1: couldn't handle, beast mode. He saw the weak side run
26:22
Speaker 1: game out of two tight ends they couldn't handle. Again,
26:25
Speaker 1: a coach walking into a football situation and lending his expertise,
26:29
Speaker 1: and at the end of the day, if we want
26:30
Speaker 1: to lose, it falls on him. That's his job. That's
26:33
Speaker 1: you see what I'm saying. So it's always nice from
26:35
Speaker 1: a players standpoint to look at a guy and know
26:37
Speaker 1: that you have a guy that can walk in any
26:39
Speaker 1: situation to help you. If you're listening to this podcast,
26:42
Speaker 1: well clearly you're listening to this podcast. But if you
26:44
Speaker 1: just heard m Rob, well you did hear m Rob.
26:46
Speaker 1: M Rob just said twenty two personnel. If that's confusing
26:49
Speaker 1: to you, I do encourage people to go back to
26:51
Speaker 1: one of our previous episodes where we talked about offensive
26:53
Speaker 1: play calling and what that actually entails. It is a
26:56
Speaker 1: great recap for anyone here that has been checking out
26:59
Speaker 1: the NFL Explained podcast. Game Day sort of an interesting
27:03
Speaker 1: scenario he got the morning of your your of course,
27:06
Speaker 1: if you're a coach, you're looking at some of the
27:07
Speaker 1: game film, that one last look at it. You're probably
27:10
Speaker 1: with your family, maybe that pregame meal, going over some
27:13
Speaker 1: last minute stuff. Late morning, you go from hotel to
27:17
Speaker 1: the stadium, even if you're the home team, because the
27:20
Speaker 1: home team also stays at a hotel. Once you get there,
27:22
Speaker 1: you're making some determinations on actives and inactives. You're meeting
27:26
Speaker 1: with your coaches, players, game officials, announcers as well. From
27:30
Speaker 1: an inactive active selection. What goes into that if you're
27:34
Speaker 1: a head coach, man first and foremost as injuries, Like
27:37
Speaker 1: most guys are active or inactive based off of health.
27:42
Speaker 1: Can they you know, can they physically go out there
27:45
Speaker 1: and help the team and do their job and be
27:47
Speaker 1: the best version of themselves. Yeah, you have guys that
27:50
Speaker 1: are part of the fifty three man roster that you
27:52
Speaker 1: already know, Okay, this guy probably will be inactive. Will
27:56
Speaker 1: have them just in case somebody in this position group
27:58
Speaker 1: goes down. But injuries determine a lot of those inactives.
28:03
Speaker 1: Game plan like, okay, we want to run the football.
28:06
Speaker 1: Going back to that example that I said a little
28:08
Speaker 1: bit earlier, we're dealing with a high power team offensively,
28:11
Speaker 1: we want to run the football because defensively we may
28:14
Speaker 1: have some issues stopping the other team. So maybe we
28:18
Speaker 1: bring up a running back this week, maybe we put
28:20
Speaker 1: down a linebacker this week, and you kind of play
28:23
Speaker 1: that chess game. And then last but not least, business man.
28:26
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know if I should be saying
28:29
Speaker 1: it on the NFL podcast, but just me and you,
28:33
Speaker 1: ain't just me and you, Okay, nobody else here, Okay, cool? Well,
28:36
Speaker 1: you know, sometimes God may need some catches for a
28:39
Speaker 1: certain incenter. Happened and they're like, well, you said what
28:43
Speaker 1: about me? You said this about me. We're already losing. Um,
28:46
Speaker 1: you're gonna be inactive today. We're not gonna You're not
28:49
Speaker 1: gonna be able to get that bonus. Or Jimmy Garoppolo,
28:52
Speaker 1: I mean, what if he was still what if Tree
28:54
Speaker 1: Lance was still healthy or whatever, and Jimmy Garoppolo was
28:57
Speaker 1: on the team, they probably make him inactive every week.
29:00
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying? So business does play a
29:02
Speaker 1: role in its Super Bowl year for the Bucks. A
29:04
Speaker 1: couple of years ago, Tom Brady was aware even Bruce
29:07
Speaker 1: Arians had made reference to some guys being close to bonuses.
29:10
Speaker 1: They made a concerted effort late in that season get
29:12
Speaker 1: those dudes to ras. Sean m does the same thing.
29:15
Speaker 1: Man who need a bonus? Give him a catch? Yeah,
29:18
Speaker 1: get your dudes paid. You mentioned some of the in
29:20
Speaker 1: game adjustments that come at halftime. You give us an
29:23
Speaker 1: example before those big time speeches that we see in
29:25
Speaker 1: the movies. Is that a thing? Uh no, not not
29:31
Speaker 1: really is you? The speeches, the real good speeches to
29:36
Speaker 1: me come from the players or the position coaches, because
29:39
Speaker 1: that many and the fire man, I mean, they are
29:41
Speaker 1: the ones that are literally going back and forth with
29:46
Speaker 1: the opponent. You know what I'm saying. But one thing
29:48
Speaker 1: a head coach can do. A head coach can alleviate
29:52
Speaker 1: doubt at halftime. If you're doubting your team, if you're
29:57
Speaker 1: doubting your opportunity to come back in a game, if
30:00
Speaker 1: you're doubting your ability to finish, the head coach makes
30:05
Speaker 1: you go. All that know the thirty three rule, Right
30:07
Speaker 1: percent of people gonna be leaders three percent of people
30:10
Speaker 1: are gonna be able to go either way in thirty three. Look, man,
30:12
Speaker 1: I ain't doing it. The head coaches put that bottom
30:16
Speaker 1: thirty three, the head coach goes after them, then the
30:19
Speaker 1: upper thirty three. During that halftime speech raises all ships
30:22
Speaker 1: coin flip. Who's making the call? Usually the head coach
30:25
Speaker 1: come yeah. Usually the head coach will come over. I
30:27
Speaker 1: know when I was always calling the coin flip, it
30:30
Speaker 1: would always be so funny. It would always be the
30:32
Speaker 1: head coach find me because out for whatever reason they
30:35
Speaker 1: wanted me to talk. Head coach will find me. But
30:37
Speaker 1: he would always have the field goal kicker right next
30:40
Speaker 1: to him, and the field goals kicker basically look at
30:42
Speaker 1: his thumb saying with direction, winds going throwing up grass,
30:47
Speaker 1: acting like he's a mediologist. He's talking about whether and
30:50
Speaker 1: the angles and degrees and in halftime, in the sunsets
30:53
Speaker 1: and instead and uh yeah, but the final one comes
30:56
Speaker 1: down to the head coach. Okay, I made reference to
30:59
Speaker 1: coaches in their ages. A little bit earlier. We've taken
31:02
Speaker 1: people through, generally speaking, what the coaches are doing during
31:05
Speaker 1: the week, responsibilities calling plays. You're thinking to yourself, well,
31:09
Speaker 1: you've got some coaches who already have coordinators. So who's
31:12
Speaker 1: doing what. Here's how I'm gonna break it down for you.
31:14
Speaker 1: Thirty two head coaches, eighteen of them call the plays
31:18
Speaker 1: on defense or offense. As you could imagine, fourteen of
31:22
Speaker 1: those coaches are calling offense, only four calling defense. And
31:25
Speaker 1: just so that you have some sort of semblance of
31:27
Speaker 1: whose specialty is what, I'll take you through it. Cliff Kingsbury,
31:31
Speaker 1: Arthur Smith, Zach Taylor, Kevin Stefanski, Nathaniel Hackett, Moult Floor,
31:36
Speaker 1: Frank Reich, Doug Peterson, Andy Reid, Josh McDaniels, Sean McVeigh,
31:41
Speaker 1: Mike McDaniel, Kevin O'Connell, Kyle Shinahan. All on the offensive
31:45
Speaker 1: side defensively, Love Smith, Brandon Staley, Dennis Allen, Todd Bowles.
31:51
Speaker 1: Obvious question put Bill Belichick in that AMPK. They're both
31:55
Speaker 1: defensive more sliding to that side. Well, we'll lean that way.
32:00
Speaker 1: I think the obvious question here is have the eight
32:03
Speaker 1: calling plays? What are you doing? Alright? Mike? You know
32:07
Speaker 1: I meditate right then I'll tell you that you actually
32:10
Speaker 1: didn't tell me. I feel like I would have. I'm
32:14
Speaker 1: really deep when it comes to that and meditation really
32:17
Speaker 1: is the ability to stay focused on one thing without
32:21
Speaker 1: allowing other stuff in. And your reality comes with what
32:24
Speaker 1: you focus on the most stuff. You see what I'm saying.
32:27
Speaker 1: The head coach's job is to keep a pulse on
32:31
Speaker 1: the team and to remind everyone with the direction and
32:36
Speaker 1: the purpose always is he keeps the team focused so
32:41
Speaker 1: that the reality that the entire team wants can come
32:44
Speaker 1: to fruition. Now, things happen. We're all human, and that
32:49
Speaker 1: conscious focus on that goal sometimes gets skewed. You know, somebody,
32:53
Speaker 1: you know the media starts talking about their head coaches
32:55
Speaker 1: job being up, you know, up for grabs or whatever.
32:58
Speaker 1: That can skew his focus and things like that. But
33:00
Speaker 1: the good ones stay focused. I love Bill Belichick. Man,
33:04
Speaker 1: you hear them here at the press conference. He's the
33:06
Speaker 1: same old dude. He may gave you a little half smile,
33:09
Speaker 1: but he's the same old dude over and over and over.
33:12
Speaker 1: And another thing the head coach does, because it's in
33:14
Speaker 1: humans nature, it's the blame it on somebody, right, we
33:19
Speaker 1: lose put the finger point the finger, and that's good
33:23
Speaker 1: mental health for the players, right, because you don't want
33:25
Speaker 1: them to be down on themselves. And that's why you
33:27
Speaker 1: always see the good coaches, I e. Sean McVeigh, I
33:29
Speaker 1: either Pete Carroll's the Bill Beck that was on me.
33:32
Speaker 1: I did that. That was on me. Any decisions that
33:35
Speaker 1: they're making that I'm not thinking of during the game.
33:38
Speaker 1: And to me, like Brandon Stalley, I just brought his
33:42
Speaker 1: damn like he's gotten a lot of heat for like
33:44
Speaker 1: those fourth down, fourth down penalty outcomes, whether to go
33:50
Speaker 1: for it or not on fourth down. I think you
33:52
Speaker 1: would just going there with Brandon Staley whether to kick
33:55
Speaker 1: a field goal punt or not. Talk to the Whitehattan
33:58
Speaker 1: officials and to make them to wear of their jobs.
34:01
Speaker 1: You know what I'm um guarantee the players need are
34:06
Speaker 1: being met in armed to do their job effectively, basically
34:09
Speaker 1: meaning putting the pressure on the assistant coaches so that
34:12
Speaker 1: these guys are armed to do their job again keeping
34:15
Speaker 1: everybody focused on the goal at hand. Is there. Look,
34:18
Speaker 1: I just mentioned that the some of the coaches that
34:20
Speaker 1: we have in the NFL, there's some really high level
34:25
Speaker 1: guys that have achieved so much in this league. When
34:29
Speaker 1: you reflect back to you that you're playing days or
34:31
Speaker 1: guys that you've been around, anyone that comes to mind,
34:33
Speaker 1: and you would say, hey, revolutionize the game. Revolutionized the game. Um,
34:39
Speaker 1: you hit me. You hear me talk a lot about
34:41
Speaker 1: Pete Carroll. I think his approach as far as being
34:45
Speaker 1: more of a player coach, always focusing on the positive,
34:48
Speaker 1: never really bringing up or highlighting the negativity, was revolutionary.
34:53
Speaker 1: And I think his first stint as a head coach,
34:55
Speaker 1: the league wasn't ready for it. The second stint, the
34:58
Speaker 1: league was ready for the right young person started to
35:01
Speaker 1: come through. People may not know this, but Mike Marts
35:04
Speaker 1: the par exactly the greatest show on turf for the St.
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Speaker 1: Louis Rams. He was my offensive coordinator in San Francisco
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Speaker 1: for a couple of years, and I think he revolutionized
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Speaker 1: offense with timing and spacing and the quarterback being able
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Speaker 1: to hit his last step, let the ball go to
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Speaker 1: an area, to a space, and allowing the receiver to
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Speaker 1: come into Things like that are now just part of
35:25
Speaker 1: everyday vernacular, part of everyday NFL concept. You know what's
35:29
Speaker 1: sort of interesting. I keep seeing Kyle Shanahan. I've been
35:31
Speaker 1: up to the Bay Area numerous times. I know obviously
35:34
Speaker 1: I saw his dad, Mike, what he was able to
35:36
Speaker 1: do with the Broncos for a really long period of
35:38
Speaker 1: time and have success there. I'm always fascinated by like
35:41
Speaker 1: the father sons, like what those calls are on those
35:44
Speaker 1: off days, like if Dad's been watching something, It's almost
35:47
Speaker 1: like having an additional coat. Like now your staff, the
35:50
Speaker 1: Shannon has I'm actually glad you said that. Now they
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Speaker 1: have been revolutionary. I've never played with, but you know,
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Speaker 1: obviously Bill Walsh, most of the West Coast concepts are
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Speaker 1: now just regularly just part of everyday football. Mike Shanahan,
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Speaker 1: shan and those guys, that's Shanahan style. That the way
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Speaker 1: that you run the football, the way that you coach
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Speaker 1: the offensive line, the way that you coach the running
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Speaker 1: back to get to a spot and make a decision,
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Speaker 1: and then it's easy playing it after that. I do
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Speaker 1: think that Shanahan system is revolution as the game. But
36:21
Speaker 1: then you have guys like Matt Lafleur who went his
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Speaker 1: way with it. You got Sean McVeigh who out leverages
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Speaker 1: defenses by motion shifts in the wide receiver diversity that
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Speaker 1: he has. That's how he went his way with it.
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Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan and younger Shanahan the way he outleverages defenses
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Speaker 1: by not only motions and shifts, but by the ball
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Speaker 1: carrier who's carrying the football, and just in the run game.
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Speaker 1: I just don't think that there's a better guy at
36:46
Speaker 1: out leveraging a defense. So he took that Shanahan, his
36:49
Speaker 1: dad Shanahan offense to a whole another direction. I think
36:53
Speaker 1: the Shanahan system right now is probably the most revolutionary
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Speaker 1: system in today's modern game. Yeah, it's kind of wild
36:59
Speaker 1: man like. And I wonder what those conversations are really
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Speaker 1: like between those two dudes when they're just talking ball. Like,
37:04
Speaker 1: if God's like, dude, I'm proud of you, like this
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Speaker 1: is sure he is, But I guarantee you he's challenging
37:08
Speaker 1: them that, well, if a defense does this, you can't
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Speaker 1: do this and coles hell dad. But if I do
37:13
Speaker 1: this in the backfield, my backfield action is this, his
37:15
Speaker 1: eyes are gonna go here. It's a big game with
37:17
Speaker 1: chess man. Yeah. I remember when I first got to ESPN,
37:21
Speaker 1: someone gave me a piece of advice. They said, look,
37:24
Speaker 1: you're working with so many different anchors and hosts. Take
37:26
Speaker 1: and see what people are doing and use it yourself.
37:29
Speaker 1: But like, your own style is gonna morph out of
37:32
Speaker 1: that just naturally from just doing your thing. You can't
37:35
Speaker 1: mimic and completely copy someone else. And I think the
37:37
Speaker 1: way you just described it with a lot of these coaches,
37:39
Speaker 1: it's the same thing, right, Like there's some core base
37:41
Speaker 1: concepts that are there, and then everyone just sort of
37:43
Speaker 1: puts their little pixie dust, their personal pixie dust on it,
37:46
Speaker 1: and it becomes their own. It becomes their own. And
37:48
Speaker 1: even when you look at if you really study Bill
37:50
Speaker 1: Walsh and his story, I mean he talks about it offers.
37:52
Speaker 1: I think we may have talked about it here. He
37:54
Speaker 1: talked about developing this offense out of desperation. I mean,
37:58
Speaker 1: stuff was happening, Injuries was happening, and they had a
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Speaker 1: certain quarterback at So that's how the West Coach short
38:03
Speaker 1: passing system came to voition Oftentimes as injuries oftentimes, it's
38:07
Speaker 1: things that are happening human human beings are very smart.
38:11
Speaker 1: Things are happening with their team, and you're just like, Okay,
38:14
Speaker 1: how can I figure this out. That's how the spread
38:16
Speaker 1: system went in. That's how read option happened, that's how
38:19
Speaker 1: all pos happened. Oh my office line isn't that good? Well,
38:22
Speaker 1: everybody blocked down we'll just handle everybody with the ball.
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Speaker 1: Handling ball travels faster thing than players, and that's how
38:29
Speaker 1: that came to us. I love it. Man, talk about
38:31
Speaker 1: this all day, No seriously, and look, we can and
38:34
Speaker 1: we will continue to have these types of conversations throughout
38:36
Speaker 1: the course of the season. We've been talking a little
38:38
Speaker 1: bit about the duties of a head football coach. Hopefully
38:42
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38:54
Speaker 1: NFL head coaches and what they do, explain, no,