PLAYERS: Are you taking short cuts now that could cost your team in the long run? How you do everything is how you do anything. Are you the kind of person your teammates can count on? 𝙂𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙚𝙖𝙢𝙨 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙜𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙚𝙖𝙢𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙨.
LAZY vs. HARD WORK
"Lazy people do a little work and think they should be winning! Winners work as hard as possible and still wonder if they are being lazy!"
powerful message from @LewisCaralla
🎥 @DrewMaddux
Ryan Day on Ohio State's leadership this season:
"When your best players and your leaders and your hardest workers and the coaches are willing to hold those guys accountable — it's easy to yell at the third-string cornerback or whoever, the scout team guys," Day said. "But when you're pushing the guys who are the leaders and the biggest contributors and the guys performing on the field, it holds everybody accountable."
Ryan Day on Ohio State needing to continue to improve as the season continues:
"It's really the things that aren't flashy. You can't get bored with doing the same thing over and over and over again. That's the whole idea of chopping wood and carrying water," Day said. "It goes right back to your technique. It goes right back to your pad level. It goes right back to your focus, to your effort. Nothing new or extraordinary, but that's, I think, in the end, what will separate us — if we continue to stay focused and do the same things over and over again but get more efficient and get better at them."
Love this brother… and it goes for every situation we face in life, even on the surface when we want to point finger or it appears to be MORE about someone else… ALWAYS asking “What could I have don’t differently or better to avoid what just happened”?
What they call “Extreme Ownership”!! If I’m in a position of leadership I must 1st ask - did I cover that situation with them? Did I cover every angle? Did I think about every detail? Did I express concerns I had? Was there a blind spot in the plan that I didn’t foresee?
It could be something in practice to clean up a rep, to get on the same page, to discuss a protection call, etc…
Human Nature wants to DEFEND US and point finger at another - Extreme Ownership points back at us and says, “If another didn’t execute like I wanted, what did I not cover to allow this to happen”? I will learn, address and not let it happen again!!