American - Coach | November 10, 1963 -
I got three years invested in Brett Hundley, two years invested in Joe Callahan. The quarterback room is exactly where it needs to be.
Mike McCarthy
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You build a program; culture is what makes it go. You have to invest in that culture every single day, and that's my big-picture focus.
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Every week, there's a different twist and turn you're not going to see coming, and how you handle that is important.
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When you're losing, there's that survival instinct. But when you're handling success, people think it's easier, and they think losing's harder. But handling success, to me, always creates more issues. Are you in touch with reality? With perception?
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At least from my position, I worry about it more when we're rolling because people get comfortable.
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I hate that 'I got it' stuff. That drives me nuts. It's that natural instinct that everything's OK because you're winning.
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I'm so blessed, and Jessica just does such an incredible job of making everything work, because this is such a selfish profession with the time commitment.
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I went away to college, and when I came back and was coaching at Pitt, if they would've offered me a 25-year contract to be the assistant coach, I would've taken it so fast. It was ideal. I was coaching one neighborhood over from where I grew up.
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It has to be a partnership. I go back to Ted Thompson's opening press conference, and he talked about partnership. We had a hell of a partnership for 12 years.
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The performance of your position coaches is obviously more than just the actual statistics of how their players perform. There's insight from relationships you have around the league throughout all the different interactions that you have.
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I'm a big believer in regularity. My father taught me that. Get up early, get your work done, and that's, what, your highest level of energy before lunch.
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You play a team for the second time, you definitely have some familiarity. I think it's beneficial for your players that they have some tape to look at of the opponent and can focus on the individual matchups that they have some current history to draw from.
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