Luke Kuechly shares what elite preparation looks like.
"There's plays I've made solely based on what I've seen on tape."
"As you study during the week, you can pick stuff up. If he lines up here, he likes doing this. If this guy's on this side of the field, he likes doing that."
Your preparation is going to help you show up. It doesn't just help you react - it helps you anticipate.
"If you can find a couple plays during the game that you've either seen on tape or seen at practice - you can apply 'em in the game."
"That's the part of the game that's fun."
Then the broadcast said it best:
"He reminds me of Peyton Manning. A guy that is totally prepared - that is gonna know what's gonna happen before it takes place because he has studied so much. He's one step ahead of everybody else."
When the game slows down - that's when preparation has done its job.
Success always starts with your preparation and your will to prepare.
(🎥 NFL Films)
Jeff Bezos reveals the simple phrase that saved him countless arguments running Amazon
"Disagree and commit is a really important principle that saves a lot of arguing"
"One of my direct reports would want to do something. I'd think it was a bad idea. We'd go back and forth and I'd often say, you know what, I don't think you're right, but I'm going to gamble with you"
"You're closer to the ground truth than I am. I've known you for 20 years, you have great judgment"
"At least then you've made a decision and I'm agreeing to commit to that decision. I'm not going to be second guessing it, sniping at it, or saying I told you so"
"I'm going to try actively to help make sure it works. That's a really important teammate behavior"
Bill Cowher shares the 3 things he told his 3 daughters - and his 53 players.
"Number one - choices and consequences."
"You can control your choice. But once you make a choice, it controls you...Just understand - with every decision you make, there's a consequence that goes with that."
Your choices and actions matter.
"Number two - it's about the people you surround yourself with."
"Are they people that are purpose-driven? Or are they people that are just trying to feed off of who you are?"
"I want people around me that are purpose-driven. People focused on doing something impactful and meaningful."
"And the third thing - nothing good happens after midnight. Nothing."
Three rules. A lifetime of wisdom.
Your choices control you. Your circle defines you. Your habits protect you.
(🎥Ray Lewis Show: @raylewis)
I LOVE this! When FM was training at my house years ago this was my biggest message to him & all the other QBs here: Take Ownership of Your Offense! Always ask the WHY, challenge everything (in a good way) & when doing it, you always have to have the knowledge to back it up or it carries no weight!
Very few QBs have the conviction to do this, afraid to step on toes & offend their coach or never gain the knowledge needed! There is only ONE person with ball in their hands when it matters, so you better be comfortable with what you are being asked to do!
I also believe that any GOOD coach would want to talk about the WHY as much as possible & would welcome the challenge to DEFEND their WHY or find a BETTER way of doing something!
Tom Brady perfectly describes the growth 🌱 mindset here:
What you manage well tends to multiply. ✖️🧮📈
Own THIS rep, don’t try to predict the future.
⛄️ Progress compounds when your attention stays on what you can control within what you've got, not what others are getting.
If 95% of your teammates are showing growth and development, and you’re not… don’t come complain to me.
You won’t like that conversation.
You get what you put into the weight room every single day. You can’t hide from the process. You can’t cheat the weight room.
Eventually, it will expose you!
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. 🏆
We gave every kid a trophy. Built platforms around the selfie. Created a culture of "Main Character Syndrome."
Result? The most affirmed generation in history is also the most anxious, lonely, and depressed.
More self-focus. More emptiness. There's a reason for that. 👇
🚨🍼 PARENTS ARE WAKING UP IN THE DELIVERY ROOM!
More moms & dads are quietly saying “NO THANKS” to the routine newborn protocol: Vitamin K shot, Hep B vaccine at birth, and the whole “just-in-case” bundle.
Refusal rates have nearly DOUBLED in recent years — and it’s not rebellion. It’s RESEARCH + INFORMED CONSENT in action! 👏💪 @AbigailIovine
When mom is Hep B negative and baby isn’t high-risk on day one, families are asking: Why inject a brand-new human with synthetic chemicals in those fragile first hours? This is a powerful shift toward trusting nature’s design over hospital scripts. 🧬✨
MUST-WATCH VIDEO by Dr. Jeffrey I. Barke, MD exposing the Vitamin K shot truth!
🔥 PARTIAL TRANSCRIPT from the video (key highlights):
“There are approximately 3.6 million newborns born in the United States every year. The American Academy of Pediatrics thinks every single one of them should get an intramuscular dose of vitamin K1.”
☠️But look at the BLACK BOX WARNING right at the top:🤮
⚠️⛔️“Severe reactions including fatalities have occurred during and immediately after intravenous and intramuscular injections of vitamin K.”⛔️⚠️
⚠️☢️“This product contains aluminum which may be toxic… Premature neonates are particularly at risk.”☢️⚠️
Then Section 13.1: “Studies of carcinogenicity, mutagenesis or impairment of fertility have not been conducted.” 😱
Translation? They’re pushing a synthetic chemical with a fatal-reaction warning, aluminum toxicity risk, and ZERO long-term cancer/fertility studies — while recommending it for EVERY baby on day one. Nature designed thin blood for stem cell transfer from the cord… not sludge from a shot!
✅ Parents, do your homework!
✅ Demand full informed consent!
✅ Protect your littlest ones from unnecessary interventions.
✅ ✅ Say NO and watch the quiet revolution grow! 🙌🛡️
#InformedConsent #NewbornRights #VitaminKWarning #ProtectOurBabies #DoYourOwnResearch #NaturalBirth #RFKJrMAHA
What are YOUR thoughts? Drop below 👇 This trend is saving lives! Are you in agreement?
See here for the vitamin K package inset and more on toxic compounds!
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“I don’t complain. But just want to give as much as I can every single time I step on the floor. I want to play as hard as possible. I want to do whatever it takes to win,” Joel Embiid
Winners don’t focus on what they get, they lock in on what they give.
My boss's boss is like 42, never married, no kids. Earns $275-300K per year. Goes on a minimum of two international vacations a year w/ his girlfriend. 10+ days, all out.
Eats the best food, stays in top notch accomodations. Excursions, tours, nicest beaches, etc.
Great guy, I'm happy for him.
But what I've realized is that without kids, you end up chasing a lifestyle that has to continually be topped in order for you to be satisfied and find happiness.
What he and others like him don't understand is that when you have children, seeing THEM experience life's most basic things and watching their eyes light up at all the "firsts", brings greater pleasure and joy than any vacation or travel experience ever could.
Seeing THEM try blueberries for the first time is greater than dining at the best 5 star restaurant in Europe.
Seeing THEM learn how to walk is greater than walking the Great Wall of China or strolling along the most picturesque beach.
Watching THEM giggle uncontrollably at "peek-a-boo" tops any A-list comedian act.
Seeing THEIR excitement when building a fort out of cardboard boxes and making a door big enough for daddy is superior to staying at 5-star resorts.
Flying kites with THEM far outweighs excursions like parasailing or helicopter rides.
Seeing THEM perform a recital on stage for the first time is more rewarding than watching a Broadway show or top notch symphony orchestra.
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When you have children, all of a sudden you realize that life's greatest joys are not in the pursuit of things or pleasure or travel, but rather in the LOVE and bond you share with your very own image bearers.
Seeing the beauty and magnificence and wonder of life all over again for the first time through THEIR eyes and expressions gives you something the world simply cannot offer, nor even come close.
Heaven ushered in a hero of the faith last night as my Dad was welcomed home!
Many will say sorry for your loss but the truth is he’s not lost, we know exactly where he is.
He’s home.
Forever!
I asked him last week what he looked forward to most about Heaven, and he simply said, “Jesus.”
He couldn’t wait to see Jesus face to face.
Praise God that his wait is over.
Death has been swallowed up in victory.
He’s healed and whole now.
So we don’t mourn as those with no hope.
See you soon Dad!
#HelloBlessedPeople 🙏🏾
30 years ago… I sat and watched team after team pass me by, most of them TWICE!
In my mind, I should’ve already been gone before the 61st pick. The last pick in the first round, or as I thought about it, the first pick in the third round. But because I was not “ideal” and labeled a “tweener”, I sat excitedly, yet angrily, awaiting my name to be called.
But as I grew in my walk with Christ, I began to understand that, for the believer, delay is often God’s setup.
That frustration… that anger… I was blessed by the Lord to harness those emotions, to build something far greater than what I imagined possible… that chip on my shoulder became an asset to my new teammates, organization, home & fan base, not a liability!!
I didn’t run from it. I USED IT.
Used it in my preparation.
Used it in my mindset.
Used it to become who God was calling me to be.
What felt like rejection… was really direction.
What felt like a setback… was part of His plan.
Don’t waste what you feel. Don’t fight it…
FAITH it!
Use it!!
"And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them." Romans 8:28
#BBTB #ChipOnYourShoulder #UseIt #StayReady #NFLDraft
"We are not trying to repeat an outcome.
We are trying to repeat a process."
You don’t build dynasties by chasing results.
You build them by mastering the habits that produce them.
The scoreboard only reveals what the process already decided.
“Not focusing on the results but continuing to love the grind, love going out there and practicing, love trying to get better. The results will come with that,” Josh Allen
Winning is done daily when you fall in love with doing what it takes to learn and grow.
🚨 JUST IN: Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is being praised nationwide for dropping this TRUTH on leftism and "progressivism"
"Progressivism seeks to replace the basic premises of the Declaration of Independence, and hence our form of government. It holds that our rights and our dignities come not from God, but from government."
"It requires of the people a subservience and weakness incompatible with a constitution premised on the transcendent origin of our rights."
You NAILED IT, Justice Thomas! 🇺🇸
This guy is the true GOAT.