Bill Belichick

Or if they don't win, just the love of the competition, the love of the prize and fighting for that, the pride to say, hey, you know, we would have a lot of team competitive events, like, for example, trivia.

You know, or know your teammate and, you know, ask questions about different teammates of, you know, maybe what position they played in high school or maybe another sport they play or, you know, some other random fact about teammates and and play offense against defense or the wide receivers against the DBs or the O-line against the D-line.

And the rookies against the veterans and, you know, create different competitions and, uh, whether it was free throw shooting or cornhole or trivia, uh, or, you know, all different things like that.

Um, guys that like to compete, love to compete and, and, um,

It was a lot of fun actually to move some of the targets around for the competition.

You know, some guys are good at free throws.

Some guys are good at trivia.

Some guys are good at, you know, closest to the hole golf shots, you know, whatever it is.

But it's just fun to see them compete.

One of the best things we did, Shane, was we would have usually one of our rookie offensive and defensive linemen would compete against each other to catch a punt.

So you put an offensive tackle and a defensive tackle back there and you go one at a time and the punter would punt and we'd make sure that it was at least four seconds hang time.

So the ball was up in the air and then whichever guy caught it first, then that group would win and the other group would have to do extra sprints or the group that won would get out a bed check or whatever.

you know, whatever it was.

But it was a good way of team building because all the players were rooting for their guy who had never caught a punt in his life probably, right?

You know, watching Vince Wilfork and Matt Light back there catching punts, you know, trying to track the ball and catch it.

And, of course, I made him punt, you know, so the returner had the sun in his eyes, you know, had to deal with that.

Uh, but you know, to watch those guys do something they hadn't done before for some type of reward, uh, was, uh, you know, it was a great team building exercise and, and, um, they, but they, they do, they love to compete.

Competitors are the guys that really love to compete.

Um, you know, are, are honestly the guys that get the most out of their talent.

Because they just are determined to work hard, prepare, and go right to the very end.