(S1) - Weekend PT #3 - Coach Speak

[ADwyer87]

[Valtookan]

Man, Coach Cowher really think he has jokes...

The other Outlaws players can tell you about his "Coach Speak", but what they haven't talked about his is "Individual Speak". Coach has a "running gag" with each of us. Something to keep us motivated and on task. With me it's my higher education. In the later months of training camp he asked us what our plan after football was, and when I told him "Aerospace Engineering", he was all like "Well, you must get some practice and apply those skills to intercepting passes!" Now, whenever I don't make an interceptions or even worse, drop one; he's like, 'How did you miscalculate the thermodynamically rate of change there?!" or something like "You're playing like you never tested the ball in a Wind Tunnel!"

It gets annoying at times but it does kind of motivate me. The worst thing is when I mad a big misplay in practice and his brought me to the side and was preaching "Dynamics, dynamics, dynamics, what do I always tell you Harrif? You need to use the Ideal Gas Law to calculate the pressure on the football, and not a fluid dynamical function!" Man, it makes him hard to take seriously sometimes but believe it or not it actually helps me. You might see what he is saying as jubberish but Coach knew about my background at MIT before he drafted me. He knew he wanted me on the squad and even spend 4 months studying multiple topics of Mechanical Engineering so he could "speak my language" and help me better transition to the NFSL. The dude is crazy but I really appreciate him.

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[Shaka]

Oh shit, you used an actual quote of mine! You win.

[Shaka]

I just finished reading these and, while some of these are hilarious, I am blessed to received so much love from my roster. Thanks for all the kind words and vote of confidence. I'm incredibly appreciative that so many guys appreciate the work I put into the locker room and my job as the GM, even if I'm incredibly busy right now and can't be my normal Shaka-mode self.

As this is about myself, I'll talk some about my approach. The reason it's so nice to see so many guys show me some love is that I believe I do a lot to engage my players in the locker room, in the discord and with changes. We've had a QB "controversy", but I don't think it was ever out of hand because I know the key through issues is communication. I created a QB room, I explained my process and it's worked it's self out. The same can be said for our offensive and defensive philosophy. I feel if you communicate, and share why everyone plays a specific part, people appreciate that.

I haven't been able to really sink my teeth into the job, and I hate that. I hate thinking the 70% shaka people are seeing is what they'll think is normal Shaka. Hopefully I get some time, can really dive into our LR, and grease the wheels some more.

I think we're moving in the right direction. Just need to keep grinding. In the end, getting to the championship will be the byproduct of the updates we put in. Winning it will be our reward :cheers:

[NUCK]