Sees thread
Thinks "who the **** is Paul Rabil and how did he land a 45 min exclusive with Bill freaking Belichick?"
Opens link
Reads, "Every week, lacrosse star and entrepreneur Paul Rabil..."
Ahhhhhhhhhhhh.
Look forward to listening, kidding aside.
I guess the usual suspects of media are too lazy to join some lacrosse vet team..
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So good to listen to BB when he cares.
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4 nuggets from the interview:
@ 12:00 - work ethic and talent
players characteristics wanted: paying attention to details, being coachable, understanding the material that they're being given, working AT IT
every player/person that understands what he needs to do to get better and then go and and work hard will improve. Players that just go out and work wo understanding/listening their improvement will be only marginal - and this players get bypassed by the ones that do the other - regardless of the talent bc the talent at this level is competitive enough (thin margin) - so the player who improves will eventually pass /and that won't take that long/ a player that has a little more talent who's not improving..
@ c.26:00 - edge players philosophy
When you have a player like (Lawrence) Taylor - the best D player I ever coached - when you have such a player at the end of the line and you don't have a good player on the other side of the line - there's a lot of things you won't be able to do.. (opponents will just play away from him) - so you have to
balance it. whereas if you have a great player in the middle - wherever they go he has a chance to get there
@ 29:00 - timing and speed
you can be fast, but making the cut at the right time is a little more important than being fast /hence 3-cone over 40/ .. or running the route at the right
timing is more important than being tall.. like in business: the right decision can be the wrong one if the timing is bad.. a lot of that is
instinctive..
@ c.30:00 - draft and talent evaluation
you just have to put all characteristics of a player in one mosaic and we try to put a value on that..
- do you go with current needs or just try to get the best?
well, let's put the value on it first . and then if we have multiple players w same value then maybe you take a guy on need. But before we get to that - so that we have consistency - we
put a value on each player; that player may go to another team and 2 or 3 yrs later that player may become available and be part of a conversation again.
So we don't want to grade players based on what our need was /circumstantial/ but based on what we think his performance level was - and we
keep that current - so that when those guys come up we have what we feel is a true evaluation of the player
(players can have totally different sets of characteristics but the value we put on them can be the same)
