NFL Leaders Using Mike's Playbook
ESPN Monday Night Football Transcript
Baltimore Ravens vs. Cincinnati Bengals
Airtime- Sept 10, 2007 at 9:10PM Eastern
Mike Tirico: Here's Michelle Tafoya.
Michelle Tafoya: Well, let's talk about captains for a minute.
During the offseason, Carson Palmer's dad gave him a copy of this book. It's called It's Your Ship and it's by a naval captain who turned a mediocre ship into one of the best crews and best ships in the Navy. Now Carson read it cover to cover and he told me he took away two lessons from this.
Number One: If the people around you believe you care about them, they will follow you into battle
Number Two: The leader must be above the group but of the group.
And his teammates must believe in him. They voted him offensive team captain for the season, Mike. He said that was the single greatest honor of his career.
Mike Tirico: More important than the Heisman Trophy, he said. Kind of surprised us all when he said it.
You've seen that all kick-off weekend, those Captain C's, permanent captains, season-long captains by Roger Godell [NFL Commissioner], as part of the edict to increase the leadership and leadership awareness within each locker room. And the teams have voted for two captains. And we have seen alot of the familiar, big name players wearing those this week.
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Mike's Book Referred to in Sports Illustrated!
In a recent article in SI, Peter King interviewed Bill Walsh on being a great leader of athletes. As he explained that players today have to be very intelligent at every position, Peter King closed with why his legacy is alive today and will never be forgotten...
"[Here's why]," he explains. I sat with Cincinnati coach Marvin Lewis for an hour in Georgetown, Kentucky, discussing his team and his hopes for the season. I bet 20 minutes of our conversation was about a book, "The Best Damn Ship in the Navy,' that Carson Palmer had asked him to read to help him understand how to motivate sometimes difficult-to-reach players. That's not the only book Lewis read in the off-season, and he's not the only reader among NFL coaches. Because, as Walsh taught us all, the smart coaches win.
Read the entire article at: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/peter_king/07/30/walsh.rememberance/index.html
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