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Chuck Turtleman's avatar

We are beyond lucky to have a coach like Pete. For all the bad play challenges, questionable clock management, and sticking with "his guys" on the staff longer than I wanted; he does a few things as well as anyone. Any they're the important things. His teams don't quit. He gets the guys fired up week after week, even during losing stretches. He treats players with respect and lets them be their own men. And he imparts this to everyone in the organization and it shows. When Micheal Bennett, Sherm, Earl and others forgot rule #1, they were gone. I was angry at the time that we couldn't get good/any compensation for them but he wasn't even willing to do a sign and trade for players who didn't protect the team.

Not many people believed Pete when he said he felt great about Smith and Lock. Pete clearly did though. When they signed Flynn to a big contract and he was outplayed in practice and the preseason by Wilson, Pete chose the better player. When Russell started having his agent drop hints to the media, he traded him while his value was still higher than his ability. And I believe that Pete really loved Russ. But he couldn't have a spoiled star player who would get upset if they scouted freaking Mahomes and Allen. It wasn't *all* personal. 3 players and 4 high picks were worth more. What I'd give to have him or John write a tell-all when this is all over. If I live long enough to still be around when it's over!

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Kyle's avatar

Pete subscribes to having life philosophies. I haven’t read Win Forever, but in Angela Duckworths “Grit”, I think he describes one of his philosophies along the lines of “Do things better than they’ve ever been done before.” And I would guess that someone with that level of life planning as described in grit, likely has an end date in mind or a specific goal that they’re trying to achieve.

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