Bill Belichick

And as you know, you know, Shane, when you get to a certain point, it's a one-game season.

If you lose, you're done.

And if you win, you get to play another week.

So when you get into that scenario, put it off until next week.

And if you're in it next week, put it off until the week after that.

But this is what we've worked all year for.

Put those things in the drawer and then open the drawer when the season's over.

Now, we would joke about it and, you know, guys would say, hey, coach, you know, my drawer is getting pretty full here.

So, you know, maybe you need a bigger drawer or maybe you need two drawers.

But the idea was to put those things on the back burner and focus on on the very special opportunity that we had in front of us, which was playoffs or championships.

Well, first of all, we don't have cell phones and Apple watches and things like that in our meetings so that they're not part of the meetings.

But when the meetings are over, you know, a lot of times the guys race to see what, you know, messages and texts and so forth are there.

You know, and my thing on that has always been, again, other than, you know, family and very personal situations, you know,

The guys that are most important to each of us are the guys in that locker room, the guys that you win and lose with and live and die with each day, and that you count on them and they count on you.

So it was really very important for us to focus on those relationships, and I tried to downplay the...

How many likes or thumbs up or whatever you get on different social platforms.

I don't even know what those are.

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.