Bill Belichick

You know, I just want to jump up and coach the linebackers or the tight ends or whatever it is.

And that's OK.

But it would really help you to understand what happens in the entire organization.

And if you want to really move up and become a coordinator and a head coach, those will be very valuable for you because you'll understand, you know, the different intersections of various departments and how the organization works and where the conflicts are.

You know, and sometimes you just, you know.

kind of two people doing the same thing or nobody doing one thing, and you miss that intersection somehow.

And that's just part of it.

But, you know, how do you avoid those and how do you make that more efficient?

So I really try to encourage the younger people, you know, to do those jobs and embrace them.

Don't, how quickly can I get done with this so I can go do something else?

No, embrace the job and embrace the process and, you know, understand it because it's going to help you in the long run.

And the other thing is, you know, as I mentioned a couple of times in the book with, you know, Josh McDaniels and Nick Casario and Brian Dable, if somebody has one of those jobs and they're really good at it and they say, well, I want to move you, you know, I want to move to more responsibility.

And I said, well, I want you to move to more responsibility, too.

But first, you've got to train somebody to do your job because what you're doing is really valuable.

And that's when Brian Dable hired Josh McDaniels to replace him.

And that's when Josh McDaniels hired Nick Asario to replace him.

And so but it forced those guys to make sure that the person that was replacing them was not only good, but they trained them to do the things the way they needed to be done.

And that really heightened our efficiency.

but also enabled them to move up to responsibility, move up in responsibility.

And so that really worked out well.