It doesn’t matter how strong, smart or successful you are ...
if you ever played #OL seriously, I know you’re built on the most important foundation:
Unselfishness.
Rank the most popular OL coach answers:
1. Run the (damn) ball
2. SPLITS!
3. What time does Cici’s open?!
4. Shorts > Pants
5. Six-inch step ... move your feet
6. To the sled!
7. Need More Indy
8. Low man wins
9. No sleeves
10. Pancakes & syrup
If you don’t like football, we can *probably* still be friends.
Unless you say something ignorant about linemen. Or if you’ve ever yelled “just block somebody” at a game.
Those are the rules.
In 2017, I met @BobbyButler2 & @KatieSowers at an @AtlantaFalcons event.
Dan Quinn talked about men AND women in the game that night. It was sincere. It was personal.
Pumped to see her go to #SuperBowlLIV to coach & deliver this message loud.
For football. For the future.
❤️
If you believe the best DIVISION 1 athletes in the country - women and men - don’t lift more than 200 pounds regularly ... I’ve got some fine beachfront real estate in Iowa to sell you.
“There is NO GUARANTEE that it’s going to work out, even if you work hard. That’s the test. Can you maintain your patience when you don’t know when it’s going to pay off?”
- advice from @LewisCaralla on @inkyjohnson podcast today … two of my absolute favorite elite thinkers
I want to host a virtual clinic with coaches who present just like this for 1-2 minutes each.
No PowerPoint. No long intro.
Stay to ask questions optional ... rapidly bank new concepts and see how people teach.
Thoughts?
15 years ago, someone very rudely told me I walk like a gym teacher.
As an insult.
I still think about it.
I think I laughed.
My fav gym teacher was my HS football coach. He greatly influenced my confidence in being myself.
I hope I can do the same as a coach.