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And I thought...

getting those ideas across without giving us too much in terms of some details, whether it's on the Caleb front in terms of how he would handle coaching his own son and how he would handle the other players.

I thought it was a good question by you in terms of is the biggest impact on the other individuals on the team as opposed to that relationship itself?

And he did admit that that would be a big part of it.

especially on how do you get players to raise that standard and have fun at the same time.

And his point was, and I think this is... Honestly, sometimes you have to... Instead of overthinking things and galaxy-braining everything, it's like...

make these incredibly intense competitive athletes compete at everything.

And what does competitiveness competition bring out of people?

It brings out edge.

It brings out fire and also a lot of fun because when you compete and you win or you compete and you lose and you go on head to head with people and you're giving everything you have, that's a lot of fun.

That's what you strive and thrive on as a professional athlete and as anybody who is into competition in any sense.

And,

People get to the National Hockey League because they have that intense amount of competitiveness.

The ones who have the next level are the ones that become stars and take that next step if they have the talent that's requisite for you to get to that point.

But it's kind of a bar everybody has to reach.

And he's like, yeah, if we compete and we make sure that guys are going head-to-head and like he mentioned, RJ saying...

Steel sharpens steel.

It was almost as if I'm listening to Richard Sherman with the Legion of Boom talking about, you know, steel sharpens steel back in the day with how those guys would go head-to-head with the offense.

But that's kind of what you want to hear.

And I will say, generally speaking, that's principles that every head coach believes in, but it's about how you implement it.