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The Philosophy of Bill Walsh
I'm not going to post the whole thing because this is a long, long, long article. Too many great parts to paraphrase it. But it's about Bill Walsh's insane drive to be a perfectionist and a book he wrote that's considered the bible for football coaches to this day. It follows a high school coach that got into coaching because of Andy Reid. It shows how far ahead of his time Bill Walsh was, and features Vermeil, Al Saunders, Belichick, Urban Meyer, Brian Billick and others. If you like football it's a great read.
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Heh. Ebook located.
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Soon GoChiefs will be the greatest football mind of our forum. He will also stay awake 22 hours a day and eat nothing but saltine crackers studying film while cutting himself.
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01-26-2013, 12:43 AM | #19 |
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Between PFF and Bill Walsh's mind droppings, I WILL WIN EVERY DEBATE.
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01-26-2013, 12:53 AM | #21 |
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The cost of that book reminds me of when I looked up how much a Seiko watch called "The Arnie" goes for since he wore it in like five or six films. Used versions for a watch that was originally around $300 now regularly fetch twice that price.
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01-26-2013, 12:56 AM | #22 |
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This is the football version of a book called The Golfing Machine by Homer Kelly. Supposedly it is just chock with verbose, jargon-laded physics vis-a-vis the golf swing. Ben Hogan proteges swear by it, but it's not in print and used versions are exceptionally hard to come by.
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QB, LT and a Pass rusher who can still get after the QB in the 4th Quarter.
These were his key personnel decisions. Bill Walsh, Building A Champion. It has been on my book shelf for many years now. That book shelf is full, so thankfully they came out with this iPad/Kindle thingy Currently reading, just recently released: Martyball. It is quite good.
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Hope some of this rubbed off on Reid, since it was written by Mike Holmgren.
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I bought Finding the Winning Edge at a used book store in Virginia in 2002 while falling in love with Reid and McNabb in Philly. Absorbed it cover to cover - everything from how to run a football team from setting up the front office, coaching staff, evaluating QBs and other positions for the WCO, and even how to organize meetings, gamedays, and handling press conferences.
YOU ALL NEED TO READ THIS BOOK. It's Reid's system. In 2003 I found a local men's flag football league here in Northern VA. I started a team with guys from work and I implemented the system (except the press conferences) and went out to the league message board to find more players. We held practices year round, played in spring leagues, fall leagues, and tournaments in the winter and summer. I got that team to win the local league twice and went to the Virginia State Tourney twice before losing in the Elite Eight round in a field of 64 teams the third year (2006). At that point my wife and I had child number three and she told me it was time to stop being a child. Bottom line: Great book for the WCO obsessed - and yes - all of you are.
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Also, my playbook: Go on eBay and search 2002 Philadelphia Eagles playbook. Somebody's out there making copies and mailing them out for a few bucks. Whence I looked last, there were hundred of playbook from various college and pro teams that were leaked. Reid's stuff is up there.
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Hell of a read
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