Bill Belichick

And so, you know, the idea is whichever team you're on, you need to be the very best team that you can be in that situation.

If it's a hands team, it's a punt return team, whatever it is like that is critical to our success.

And you have your responsibilities on that team.

I have my responsibilities on some different teams, but ultimately we all come together and, and those shared responsibilities and those shared teams are,

Um, so that we can operate together functionally as a team are really what we're trying to accomplish.

So it's not just getting a bunch of guys who, you know, can do, have good skills, um, and can run fast and jump high or whatever.

I mean, that helps of course, but they have to be able to operate as a team and as a team of teams.

And, you know, a lot of that is a mentality, is a willingness to communicate and work with and efficiently cooperate with your teammates so that collectively we can accomplish our goals when our unit's out on the field.

How has coaching changed in the past five years?

You know, outside of rules changes and things like that, you know,

There are some trends, and I know I think as, look, when you're on defense, you have to react to the offense, right?

If the offense has three tight ends on the field, you're not going to be playing the same defense that you had when they have three receivers on the field.

So defensively, a lot of what you have to deal with

Now, you can say, look, we're going to play the same thing and make them adjust to us.

But, I mean, there are certain matchups that just become, you know, difficult to sustain that philosophy.

So, again, what I'd say is it's important to defensively be able to adapt to what the offense is doing because ultimately you don't control who they put on the field.

You just have to stop them.

You know, offensively, you know, you take the talent that you have and try to make the most of it.

So I would say in college football, which is where we get our resources from in the NFL, you know, some of that's a function of what's available, you know, what's coming out, what they're teaching in college, what type of players they're developing, because that's really what you have to choose from.

So I do think there are some trends, but fundamentally, it really comes down to, you know, having good, solid fundamentals.