So you get two good hours on the field about every day, you get about an hour and a half in the meeting room and that's pretty much all you need to thoroughly coach your team.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Every college coach I talk to won't say it on record, but everyone's thinking, 'Should I go to the league?' Because you don't have the same requirements. It's different. The hours are different.
But the problem with coaching is that it is a full-time job. By that I mean for at least 40 weeks in a year you have to be with the player, either travelling or training. Right now I don't want to do that.
The coach's job is to get the best players and get them to play together.
I think I have some ideas on coaching, but listen, coaches work harder than players. The hours they put in, the headaches that they have. That's the one thing I've never liked about coaching. They have all the emotion, passion and preparation without actually getting to be able to dictate what happens.
At the minor-league and major-league level, you know how important your coaching staff is, but in a big market it becomes absolutely huge.
Coaches coach guys on the field. I get to spend time with practice squad receivers and tight ends or a young center who's always inactive on Sundays... I feel really good about having an impact on those guys and their careers.
Really, coaching is simplicity. It's getting players to play better than they think that they can.
To be honest, it makes you a lot better coach when your boss is in the meeting room. You're a lot more driven every day.
The players fire the coach, and as long as I'm on the same wavelength with them, I can coach as long as I want to.
I just felt that if the team is doing seven hours, I'd want to do eight. I'd always need to do more. I knew that would make me better than everybody else.