kevin smith

Being a good coach means telling players what they need to hear, not just what they want to hear. Being coachable means receiving correction without mistaking it for criticism.

Super Bowl 🏆 Champ and Hall of Famer @EReed20 on accountability as a teammate, respecting the game, and "how you do everything, is how you do anything" is pure leadership cinema: 🛒 The way you do the small things is the way you’ll do the hard things. Championship habits live in the details people naturally overlook. It’s returning the shopping cart, cleaning your locker, putting your clothes where they belong, not because someone told you to, but because respect is a standard you carry, not a rule you follow. Those “little things” trickle into your preparation, your performance, and your outcomes. 🛶 Your habits are not a personal choice, they’re a team obligation. Someone is always downstream from your discipline. When you’re consistent, you make the people around you better. When you’re careless, you make their job harder. That’s what accountability really means. 🟰 Standards are the great equalizer. Draft status, contract, role... it doesn’t exempt you from the work. Belonging to something bigger means we all meet the same bar, every day. Not because it’s fair, but because it’s necessary to be champions. The 2013 @Ravens standards were the invisible and unspoken contract of their team: honored in the quiet of their smallest habits, revealed in the chaos of gamedays, and ultimately the difference between a group that just shared a locker room and one that now shares a LEGACY. 🏆

Coaching is not about what you know, it’s about what you can teach.

Chesney on Thursday said good football players can’t be “bad at life.” I asked OC Dean Kennedy about it. “If you’re going to be bad in the classroom, you’re going to be late for academics, we can’t trust on third and 7 to run the correct route. … You have to attack everything.”

Underrated coaching truth: The best coaches aren’t obsessed with talent. They’re obsessed with effort. With attitude. With toughness. Because when it gets hard, that’s what still shows up.

If I was a high school football coach wrestling would be mandatory for all big guys on the team as track would be mandatory for all athletes on team.

@KTSmithFFSN @FansFirstSN Appreciate Coach.

@KTSmithFFSN @FansFirstSN How you attack an Odd front with this concept? Would you prefer to be in 11 or 12p?

Lou Holtz passed away today. 🙏 One reminder he often shared: Every teammate should ask three questions: 1. Can I trust you? 2. Are you committed? 3. Do you care about me? When players can answer yes to all three… Teams become special. Lou Holtz 🥇

“I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.” — Lou Holtz

“It shouldn’t even be old school values, it should be what’s right. There’s nothing old school about holding each other accountable, having an incredible work ethic, being incredibly competitive, being willing to sacrifice for the betterment of the group. That shouldn’t be old school values that should just be the way that organizations and human beings go about their business,” Dan Hurley 🎥 @PatMcAfeeShow

I am not ashamed of my journey. My life will be a testimony. But if I could offer a word of advice to any freshman, sophomore or junior athlete in high school it would be to just listen bro. All them adults in your life not just talking to talk. They been here longer. They done bumped they head already. They trying to save you from doing the same thing. Do not make the mistake of thinking your talent alone is enough. It’s not. Talent open doors. Character and grades keep you there. And if you already messed up, if your GPA not where it should be, if your name been in rooms for the wrong reasons… don’t quit. Keep digging. You can climb out the hole the same way you dug it. Class of 29, 28 and 27 hear me. Take your grades serious.
Choose who you hang around wisely.
Protect your name. Word spreads fast if you a crash out.
Respect authority. Nobody riding for you like your parents and coaches.
Work hard when nobody clapping. Do not wait until senior year to lock in. That GPA do not lie. I’m still figuring it out myself. I’m struggling but I know God got me. Be intentional.
Lock in early. Pray. Show up ready to work. I’m learning the hard way that my future is being built in the small decisions I make today. Start now.

@BussinWTB Robert Saleh

NO ONE HAS GUESSED IT YET… If you are the first person to guess correctly, we will send you some Bussin’ merch 🫡 GOOD LUCK

@ProFootballTalk NFL has a commissioner and the HOF has a Director… get together and over-ride the committee… put Belichick in… then get rid of the committee.

After telling SI that he voted for Bill Belichick, Bill Polian tells ESPN that he can't recall "with 100 percent certainty" whether he did. nbcsports.com/nfl/profootbal…

@MySportsUpdate Why not just get rid of Glenn then?!

#Jets HC Aaron Glenn has now fired OC Tanner Engstrand, DC Steve Wilks, DBs coach Dre Bly, QBs coach Charles London, DL coach Eric Washington, passing game coordinator Scott Turner, and LBs coach Aaron Curry, among other assistants.

@Michael_Nania @RobbySabo Glenn gets a ‘learning curve’ pass yet his entire staff doesn’t. Could argue Engstrand did the best job of everyone on the staff with nobody at the most important position in sports.

Who are the Jets getting better than Engstrand at this point of the offseason with a lame-duck HC who is firing quite literally almost everybody? He was a first-year OC with no QBs or WRs and did this...

I could listen to Dan Quinn talk all day - no wonder his team loves him.

@Coach_DDavidson Power (Variations) Counter (Variations) Iso

If you could only have 3 run schemes, what would they be? I’ll answer in the morning on my channel! #WideZoneWarriors

@YogiRoth It's far worse in baseball and basketball than it is football. Although, 7v7 and these new 5v5 OL/DL competitions are attempting to get in on the action. The attention to head trauma actually aids football in this regard.

@coach_ksmith That is spot on. Need to be Blackbelts in Fundamentals imo vs 2-4 games a weekend.

Up in the air and curious: what are your thoughts on Youth Sports in today's era? What do you like? Dislike? Wish could change?