Bill Belichick

in college and and then became a you know an offensive guard started for us for seven years julian edelman who played uh quarterback in college and and then became a receiver upon return two positions that he never played in college in the nfl um and became very good at him so

Yeah, absolutely.

That work ethic and that day-to-day improvement when you just stack those days together on top of each other for a sustained period of time, you know, it levels out the talent.

Sure, talent's important, but guys with a great work ethic and who really are committed to improving can catch a lot of players with more talent who don't work as hard.

Yeah, sure.

I mean, there are lots of them, unfortunately.

You know, I refer to one of them in the book that, you know, talked about coming in and being a running back and, you know, being a combination of, you know, two great running backs that were in the Hall of Fame.

And, you know, I think he had barely 100 yards in his entire career.

So it's, you know, talent's one thing, but the application of turning that talent into being a productive football player and a great teammate is, it's hard to do.

It's not that easy.

And talent gets you through high school.

It might get you through college.

But once you get to the NFL level,

that talent, that field levels out.

And there are only a few players that have such elite talent that they don't have to work very hard and can stay better than a lot of their competitors.

For the other 95%, if they don't stay on it, they're either going to get replaced or in a lot of cases, players that don't trade hard will get injured and their careers will get cut short that way because they don't commit to a good training regimen.

No, I think it's, I think it, it transcends everything.

It's unbelievable how competitive guys are, uh, literally over nothing.

I mean, it could be for a t-shirt.

Um, you know, there's guys that are making millions of dollars and it's for a, for a t-shirt or a, um...