When the head coach of Canasus City Andy Read NFL’s Ananya 300-Club at the AFC Divisional Round with his team’s 23-14 victory over Houston Texas, he immediately heard from the only living member of the Mount Rashmore of Coaching. -Be Belichic, both his long -time friend and rival.
The Reid was either not immediately remembered or wanted to share what Belichic had to say. But when I asked him on Thursday if it was on the lines of “Welcome to 300”, Reid laughed and called his weight in the image of “Forcterian”, which he likes to call himself.
Belichic “is not really going to reach the real 300,” he said, which means pound. “There are many things that went into it.”
And so it goes with reed, which loves self-deprived humor at any time, but especially when he can use it to deflect or downplay the spotlight.
For example, when he was already asked about such success in the 60s in the same interview session, he said, “I think he put something in Geritol.”
And asked what it would mean for him to win the Associated Press Coach of the Year Award – as he needed – Reid suggested that he did not know that he was in controversy and said, “You just made it. Can. ”
But this is everything else that is just with laughter and humility of a man who always credits everyone around you for his achievements.
While Reid is competitive to its marrow and every … single… cell, in those ways that their fine public personality cannot always appear, an important reason for their incredible success is not that he directly three straight straight Super bowls are focused on winning.
Or NFL focuses on becoming the most winning coach in history (his 301 wins are 47 away from breaking Don Shula’s record).
Or even with the idea of defeating eagles in the Super Bowl Lix, an Enkor Super Bowl on the franchise, which allowed him to go after the 2012 season.
“He is facing best ever.” “This run is the best and longest in NFL history. Andy’s achievements are extraordinary. ,
Even if such tricks can sometimes hit Reid’s mind, they certainly do not capture it.
As far as he is concerned, it will be like blinding itself by looking directly in the sun.
Or to crippred yourself far or back.
In addition, the readid is somehow motivated to give both to all of them in some way and is consumed with the so -called precious current.
As his aggressive talent and ability to connect with players from every background, it is one of the superpower of the reads … even if it is not a glamorous point at all.
Accordingly, I am not sure that he is ever chanting the word “three-peat”.
If so, Patrick Mahms said on Thursday, it will only happen because he was asked about it by the media.
“He is very closed,” How can we be great with our rhythm in practice today? ” “Mahms said.
Apparently do not mention the speed of the session, but the signal-calling sink, Mahors, said, “So it is just the stuff on which the coach focuses on reed.”
Talking of “focus”, it may look like a dry clichch that the reed is actually more busy in the process than the results.
And not at the destination as a journey. And treating with the same urgency every day – as anyone around it will say a lot.
Or that all this is about the “formula”, the last words that see the heads on their way from the Gayha Field to the ground in the field in the Earohed Stadium Locker Room.
But the point is more amplified and colorful when you think through the lens of this timely Vince Lombardy quotation:
“I strongly believe that the best time of any man, that is the biggest fulfillment of everyone, the moment he has dear, he is the moment when he has worked in a good reason for his heart and tired on the battlefield Is – victorious. ”
The “victorious” is the major word, as it is a lot of reason to try.
But I believe that Reid also sees the work as his reward.
The notion is reflected in one of my favorite quotes, including Professor Hartle Bur Alexander and Lincoln, Neb: at the Memorial Stadium in Neb: Nebraska Darshan University.
“Not victory but action; Not the goal but sports; In the deed in the glory. ,
Even if it seems elevated, I really feel that it is true when it comes to Reed.
For a snapshot of your thinking, let’s go back to the training camp in Missouri Western in St. Joseph, where Reid believes that the position of Spartan is required to build the foundation.
When he mentioned the “cinder block” of the Derm Room, he would also, well, speak about the columns of the formula.
“Listen, the game has a certain cruelty …” Reid said in July, adding later, “We have found that part of it, and it is important that you develop it.
“If you are tired, you are going to be mentally tired. If you are physically tired, it is going to affect you mentally. And if you are tired, the period, you can’t think and you can’t play. At least not to do the best of your ability.
“So here the purpose let’s get ourselves in shape, make sure that we are in the shape of football … in both mental and physically, so that we can perform our best.”
It is always reinforced by its own example. Even within a profession of workholix, the work of the readid is mythological.
Because he burns to win, to make sure.
But also because he embraces every step.
When I asked him if he could find the journey the most complete part, Reed agreed to the suggestion and said he first thinks about himself as a teacher.
“There is a lot that goes into it,” he said. “It is not just knowing your belongings, but how it is presented and the trust you have and then works in every game.”
He said, “When we see success, we enjoy it; I like that. I would like to see me that people go out and do something good. I am happy for them, because I know the time and effort that went into it.
“There is a merit share, you know?”
He was learning.
But the merit begins with the teaching and tone prescribed by the force of each-type, not to mention the attitude.
In those deeds, glory – no matter how much you try to laugh.