Bill Belichick

But what's more important is what the guy next to you thinks about you and the respect that you guys have for each other and the trust that you have in each other.

And that's something that, you know, on a football team, you just you earn every day.

Every day you come to work as a coach, you know, you earn the trust and respect of your players and your other coaches by being prepared, by showing that you're there to help the team and you can help the team win.

And, again, it's the same thing for every player.

And when you earn that every day, you build that trust and you build a cohesive team.

And when you don't, you know, those are the players that, again, that other players don't trust as much.

Is he going to run the right route?

Is he going to be at the right depth?

Is he going to block the right guy?

Is he going to be in the right gap?

And and that causes when you don't know what your teammates going to do, that causes a lot of hesitation on your part.

And you're kind of waiting to see what he's going to do instead of knowing what he's going to do.

And then you can aggressively do your job because you're confident of the people beside you.

And yeah.

I learned a lot about that with the especially with the Navy SEALs, those elite teams.

I mean, Blue Angels would be another example.

You know, those guys fly 18 inches apart and, you know, the amount of trust and preparation and teamwork that's involved in something like that going forward.

you know, 600 miles an hour or seven, whatever it is, um, is, is pretty amazing.

But, you know, the seals, it's the same thing.

Like everybody's got a job to do and, and you learn your teammates so well that you can even in a dark room, uh, you know, pick out his, you know, his silhouette or, or something about him that identifies them.