Bill Belichick

What do we do poorly?

What do we need to do better?

What adjustments should we have made?

What coaching errors did we make?

and so forth and and then you you factor all that into you know how does that affect this next week sometimes there's a lot of carryover sometimes the play team you play the following week is completely different and some of those lessons may not really become applicable for a week or two weeks or three weeks until you see a you know a similar type of opponent say like a scrambling quarterback you know maybe you play two or three weeks where those quarterbacks

aren't too mobile.

And then when you get up against another scrambling quarterback, you go back and look at, hey, how, you know, how do we need to handle this better against this type of an opponent?

So, but yeah, you look at all those things after 24 hours, win or lose or draw, you take your lessons and you decide how you're going to incorporate any of those things into this week's preparation and practice, what we're going to do differently or maybe do more of or do less of, whatever it is.

And then you're done with that and you move on to your opponent and and spend the next five days, six days, whatever it is of just, you know, digging in on that opponent and what they do.

Well, again, it's all relative.

You know, Shane, I mean, as good as the players are in the NFL, the guys on the other side of the ball are pretty good too.

And, you know, I'd say every team, generally speaking, every team has about –

You know, five or six players that are elite, have elite payments, elite contracts.

And then you might have some younger players in their first through fourth year, you know, two or three, four, whatever those that are elite players that just haven't hit those top contracts yet.

but they don't necessarily match up in the same position.

You might have a tackle, I might have a guard, you might have a linebacker, I might have a corner and so forth.

So the way those elite players match up is very specific from game to game and how you want to match them, your matches against theirs, and how you want to deal with that is a big part of it.

I think the confidence thing is really important

Interesting.

I think what really separates the great players is their ability to do it even when the bullseye is on their back every week, like it was with Tom Brady, like it was with Lawrence Taylor, like it is with Patrick Mahomes, like it is with, you know, players like that, Lamar Jackson and so forth.