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Tom Brady is the winningest championship quarterback of all time, winning six NFL Super Bowls. Throughout his NFL career, though, he is also considered to have had maybe the greatest football coach of all time coaching him in Bill Belichick. Bill Belichick has eight Super Bowl rings as a coach in the NFL. Many people say the most impressive part of his job with the Patriots is bringing a new group of players together year after year and motivating everyone, from the stars to the one-season role players, to align on a singular mission and getting the best out of every player, whether on the field for one play or sixty plays.

So, this is the question for you, Coach: Can you tap into the less talented role players and turn them into productive contributors? Do you have a formula or methodology to help you be consistent in tapping into your players’ full potential, or are you just winging it?

CREATING FIRSTS

I’ll share a story from my first season as the boys’ head varsity coach at The Kings Academy, a small Christian high school in West Palm Beach, Florida. In one of our first games of the year we were playing American Heritage of Delray. Talented players. Many of them were playing for what US Soccer calls the development academy (D.A.). To make the D.A. in an area you pretty much need to be the best of the best, and they had many of those elite players and top players from other top club programs. I didn’t know this at the time, but in our school history our boys’ soccer team had never defeated American Heritage. They had entered our district I think a few years prior, and if you looked back at their history, they had several state championships and state runner-up appearances and a track record of being really good. Not just good, but great.