Post by stonedinvestor on Nov 14, 2017 18:01:26 GMT -5
pt 1- " I feel like I hit the lottery, so to speak. I feel like it’s a blessing every day for me to be here, and I feel that we have good people around us and talented players and coaches around us, and I’ll do anything I can do to put them in a position to be successful. There’s only one goal in this business, and that’s why we all got into it, and that’s shooting for the stars."- Ben Mcadoo
... Losing is as easy as 5,4,3,2,1
He came to us in a Giant suit. I think we forget that. An outsized personality. He wore a suit ten times his size, an ode to David Byrn of the Talking heads no doubt. Apparently that large suit once fit the man, he had shrunk. He was even then the shrinking man. What has become of our beloved Ben McAdoo!
Here is a Q&A with Steve Serby of the NY Post before the season began.
Q: This is a better question for Lawrence Taylor, but why do you think Lawrence Taylor might like this defense?
A: I think that Lawrence Taylor would like this defense because there are a bunch of players who play the game the way he played the game. And that’s to hunt.
Wow. Cue the laughter. I mean that's so off the mark.
Q: What was your thinking in acquiring Brandon Marshall?
A: Brandon Marshall is a big man with a chip on his shoulder and he’s motivated to win.
Kaboom... ok in hindsight we see the mistakes in analysis came early for the coach.
Q: Same question about tight end Rhett Ellison.
A: Rhett Ellison is a physical, heavy-handed football player, pound-for-pound one of the better players on this team. He may not show up on the stat sheet like you want him, but he’s a great team player.
So I cut him last week and then reclaimed him when no other team made an offer.
Q: Giants fans are concerned about the offensive line. Why won’t it be an Achilles’ heel?
A: They’ve played together a while now. They know each other. When you have five men working together, it takes a lot of work to be on the same page, and I believe the third year will be the charm there.
I believe third year will be the charm... You can't make this stuff up...
Q: In 25 words or less, describe Jason Pierre-Paul in 2017.
A: JPP in 2017 is a man motivated to put the fifth trophy in the case.
Sorry I think you think I said an earlier year....
Q: Olivier Vernon.
A: O.V. will be more comfortable playing with the players around him, and I feel he’s going to have an excellent season.
Q: Damon “Snacks” Harrison.
A: Snacks … will emerge as the Alpha dog of the defense.
Q: Janoris “Jackrabbit” Jenkins.
A: A true competitor that has a very short memory.
Well maybe not quite as short as I thought! A true competitor, I might rethink that as well.
Lets see in this one interview and Ben has vastly misread everything! Lets see if he can make several more mistakes in a row:
Q: What can Landon Collins do for an encore?
A: Landon Collins is just starting to scratch the surface of his potential. He’s all about football, and a very focused player, and I’m excited to see him continue to grow.
Q: Eli Manning at age 36.
A: I think he’s getting younger.
Q: How so?
A: He has a renewed energy, passion and enthusiasm for the game. He’s dialed in. I think he’s excited to get out there with this offense.
Q: The growing process for Odell Beckham Jr. is where?
A: He’s continuing to grow as a player and a person …
Q: He’s got to tightrope that fine line between the way you want him and the way you don’t want him, right?
A: I want Odell like I want all the players, I want them on the edge. I want them playing physical, I want them playing combative. I like players playing physical and aggressive and combative and right on the line.
And Occasionally peeing on the ghost.
Q: Why do you like the pressure of great expectations?
A: Because that’s why you do this. I feel like I hit the lottery, so to speak. I feel like it’s a blessing every day for me to be here, and I feel that we have good people around us and talented players and coaches around us, and I’ll do anything I can do to put them in a position to be successful. There’s only one goal in this business, and that’s why we all got into it, and that’s shooting for the stars.
Q: How and why will you be a better coach in Year 2?
A: I work hard at coaching, trying to get better myself each and every day. I’m my biggest critic. It’s important for me to improve, as well as for this football team to improve.
Q: What was the biggest lesson you learned from a year ago?
A: The most important thing is I can’t make this about myself. It’s not about me, it’s about the people around me and how I can lead through service. We put a lot of time and effort into evaluating the program outside of schematics to find ways to make it better. We found over 100 things we could change and improve and we continue to find ways to try to make it better and more effective and efficient and we can never be satisfied.....
Q: What have you learned about what it means to be the head coach of the New York Football Giants?
A: I realize that the fan base for the Giants has the same goal that we all have, and that’s to put the fifth trophy in the case. The fan base is very similar to myself, and the rest of the building is brutally honest with what they see, and they’ll give that to you.
Q: Wellington Mara once said: “I’d like to have a team that says, ‘Buckle up your chin straps, pally. We’re gonna knock your jocks off.” Do you have that kind of team?
A: We have a physical, heavy-handed football team. We feel that as we practice and as we continue to grow together and get better, that will really show itself.
Q: I’ve heard you use the word combative. Is that a word that you want this team to aspire to?
A: Absolutely. Physical, heavy-handed and combative. That’s the type of style we need to play with. We don’t want to be reckless but we want to be relentless.
Q: How much do you like this team?
A: I like this team. Like I said before, we’re about a 7...
Q: How and where did the whole thought of empathy begin for you?
A: I was in Florida, spending time with my wife and kids and watching the news unfold last year heading into the first season as the head coach, just seeing that the world was in a little bit of a different place it seemed like to me at the time … but I don’t get out much. I guess I just took notice, and felt that we needed to address it as a team.
That was when the team officially became ' empathetic. '
Q: What does that do for a team, to have empathy on a football team?
A: I think that you have players and coaches and staff members from all walks of life, all different ethnic groups, you have different ages, different backgrounds, socio-economic status growing up, whatever the case may be. So I think that it’s important that we try to put ourselves in the shoes of others and what they have gone through or maybe what their parents have gone through for them to get to where they are today.
Q: The last leadership/management book you read.
A: “Simple Rules” [by Donald Sull].
Q: What is your message to Giants fans about this team and this season?
A: Keep making it loud for our defense in MetLife Stadium, and they’ll reward you.
Sounds simple.
Pt 2 Simple Rules.)- The book McAdoo was reading was Simple Rules.
Simple Rules: How to Thrive in a Complex World:simple rules tame complexity better than complex solutions.
The rules work best in situations where people and organizations need to make decisions and take action quickly. <-- remember that. To be effective, the book says, simple rules must meet four conditions: They must be limited in number, tailored to the person or organization using them, applied to well-defined activities, and open to giving people latitude to exercise discretion. Already I am lost but Ben presses on.
The best rules aren’t just the first ideas that occur to you.
The Giants did not visit an amusement park. Rather During a team meeting, McAdoo played a video simulating a roller coaster ride. It was a hit, according to those in the room. Players were laughing, throwing their hands up in the air as they hit each 'high point' and careened down, before 'rising' back up.
Simple rules-- he out thought the original thought of going to the amusement park, too much time can't trust the guys, injuries, and made a quick, simple solution to show the players a video; a first person view of a rollercoaster ride.
The video helped McAdoo get a simple message across: An NFL season is like a roller coaster, full of ups and downs, and the Giants must be prepared for the inevitable peaks and valleys ahead. It also serves as a window into McAdoo's coaching mind.
McAdoo is up and down. Maybe a pretty girl bouncing on a trampoline would of achieved an even better result. Mcadoo's mission is to educate, and win games. But the Giants are going to enjoy themselves, move around a bit, no steady steamer plowing out into the big storm, the stormy seas and that giant wave... steady they go.... No, Rollercoaster.
But it's just gone down.
McAdoo use four key words when discussing his philosophy: Coaching, teaching, parenting and leading.
Would it be fair to say he has failed this year in all four?
The culture he has instilled: Is it toxic?
McAdoo majored in health and physical education at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and received a master's degree in kinesiology at Michigan State. He's a football coach, but he considers himself a teacher first.
"Don't ever forget [teaching]," he said in a 2012 interview when he was the Packers' quarterback coach. "I believe I'm a good teacher, and I'm working at being a great teacher. I want to be the best teacher."
The Bast Teacher.
Team president and CEO John Mara said in January his first impression of McAdoo was, "this guy is a teacher, and he's got an edge to him."
What of the differentiation when McAdoo and his assistants work with individual players?
"I've been fortunate to do projects and be around discussions on multiple intelligences.-? We try to incorporate different ways of teaching and learning, as we can," McAdoo said. "Whether it's read it to them, have them read it, show them a picture, show them a video, stand up, walk through it, talk through it, or doing it at full speed. And then we go back and give them immediate one-on-one feedback when it's possible."
So you talk real slow to Jackrabbit?
Nat Berhe says)
Take safety Nat Berhe. McAdoo's first year with the Giants was Berhe's rookie season. The 2014 fifth-round pick said he's felt a connection with McAdoo since then. But their relationship further developed last season, when Berhe missed the entire year after calf surgery.
Berhe would be rehabbing in the weight room. A few times a week, McAdoo would stop by, and coach and player would chat.
"I remember walking away and going, 'Man, this guy is great. I can see him being a head coach, for sure,'" Berhe said. "He's just a great coach, in my opinion. I've had a lot of coaches in my life, and you see a coach like coach McAdoo and you go, 'OK.' He already seems like he's 10 steps ahead of you, and he's fun to be around."
"It's not revolution," Berhe added. "It's evolution."
And now we are full back to revolution. What happened?
Faster, faster, kill, kill ) A New Self help Book for Ben.
Ben Mcadoo began to speed up his decision making even more. The new self help book he has been reading is all about quick decisions. It's called The Five Second Rule.
The authors identify two types of simple rules: Those that can help you make decisions and those that can help you do things. Decision rules set boundaries, prioritize alternatives, and establish stopping points.
Process rules help people execute tasks, coordinate group action, and establish the proper timing of tasks.
and now the hair...
The Giants started out a fresh 0-5 since their head coach changed up his head style. And really haven't won since. One game. Coincidence? McAdoo showed up at the Giants facility wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with a picture of himself with the words “Benny with the good hair’’ – a play on the lyrics in Beyonce’s “Sorry’’ about “Becky with the good hair.’’
What caused this make over from fun out of shape guy to slick rick? By now we had Mini McAdoo that little kid and Ben was getting almost famous. Where is he now!-- That little kid- I bet I know what he was NOT on halloween!!!!! But we had a bit of a cult of Ben going down. The suit, the mustache and now the hair. With terminator sun shades to boot.
The author of The Five Second Rule's story)
One night, she noticed a commercial on TV that showed a rocket launch. 5…4…3…2…1 – go! She thought it was stupid at first, but the next morning, she decided to launch herself out of bed, just like a rocket. After counting down from five, she stood up, and that’s how she discovered The 5 Second Rule. It changed everything... ok, I guess...
Today, as she spreads awareness of the rule, she defines it as follows:
“If you have an impulse to act on a goal, you must physically move within 5 seconds or your brain will kill the idea.”
And so NY Giant game plan after game plan has been put together in this way; taking only first thoughts into consideration. An offensive line, a running game, a defense all done rather quickly. All first thoughts, Thoughts he got wrong before the season even began; Mcadoo decisions they come faster and faster.
Here are 3 reasons why this simple idea of a 5-second countdown really works:
Through little acts of courage, the 5 Second Rule makes you less afraid over time.
There are reasons the “right time” will never come, so you just have to start.
The 5 Second Rule helps to override your feelings, a tactic which is called psychological intervention.
How does that translate to football?
The sequence of events usually isn’t think, then act, but feel, then act.--> Eli 'feels' afraid then he acts too fast.
As a result, the simple reason we often don’t act all is that we “don’t feel like it.” Jackrabbit, Landon they don't feel like playing. JPP. To solve this problem, we should look at successful professional athletes who inspire us. They consider feelings such as them being tired as suggestions, rather than absolutes,--> which allows them to override them.
What you’re doing then is called psychological intervention on a very small scale: You’re changing your behavior to impact how you feel, rather than hoping for the process to happen in reverse.
Ok I get it now. I got to ' feel ' like winning. But how can I use psychological Intervention to beat the Kansas City Chiefs?
only Ben Mcadoo knows. -stoney
... Losing is as easy as 5,4,3,2,1
He came to us in a Giant suit. I think we forget that. An outsized personality. He wore a suit ten times his size, an ode to David Byrn of the Talking heads no doubt. Apparently that large suit once fit the man, he had shrunk. He was even then the shrinking man. What has become of our beloved Ben McAdoo!
Here is a Q&A with Steve Serby of the NY Post before the season began.
Q: This is a better question for Lawrence Taylor, but why do you think Lawrence Taylor might like this defense?
A: I think that Lawrence Taylor would like this defense because there are a bunch of players who play the game the way he played the game. And that’s to hunt.
Wow. Cue the laughter. I mean that's so off the mark.
Q: What was your thinking in acquiring Brandon Marshall?
A: Brandon Marshall is a big man with a chip on his shoulder and he’s motivated to win.
Kaboom... ok in hindsight we see the mistakes in analysis came early for the coach.
Q: Same question about tight end Rhett Ellison.
A: Rhett Ellison is a physical, heavy-handed football player, pound-for-pound one of the better players on this team. He may not show up on the stat sheet like you want him, but he’s a great team player.
So I cut him last week and then reclaimed him when no other team made an offer.
Q: Giants fans are concerned about the offensive line. Why won’t it be an Achilles’ heel?
A: They’ve played together a while now. They know each other. When you have five men working together, it takes a lot of work to be on the same page, and I believe the third year will be the charm there.
I believe third year will be the charm... You can't make this stuff up...
Q: In 25 words or less, describe Jason Pierre-Paul in 2017.
A: JPP in 2017 is a man motivated to put the fifth trophy in the case.
Sorry I think you think I said an earlier year....
Q: Olivier Vernon.
A: O.V. will be more comfortable playing with the players around him, and I feel he’s going to have an excellent season.
Q: Damon “Snacks” Harrison.
A: Snacks … will emerge as the Alpha dog of the defense.
Q: Janoris “Jackrabbit” Jenkins.
A: A true competitor that has a very short memory.
Well maybe not quite as short as I thought! A true competitor, I might rethink that as well.
Lets see in this one interview and Ben has vastly misread everything! Lets see if he can make several more mistakes in a row:
Q: What can Landon Collins do for an encore?
A: Landon Collins is just starting to scratch the surface of his potential. He’s all about football, and a very focused player, and I’m excited to see him continue to grow.
Q: Eli Manning at age 36.
A: I think he’s getting younger.
Q: How so?
A: He has a renewed energy, passion and enthusiasm for the game. He’s dialed in. I think he’s excited to get out there with this offense.
Q: The growing process for Odell Beckham Jr. is where?
A: He’s continuing to grow as a player and a person …
Q: He’s got to tightrope that fine line between the way you want him and the way you don’t want him, right?
A: I want Odell like I want all the players, I want them on the edge. I want them playing physical, I want them playing combative. I like players playing physical and aggressive and combative and right on the line.
And Occasionally peeing on the ghost.
Q: Why do you like the pressure of great expectations?
A: Because that’s why you do this. I feel like I hit the lottery, so to speak. I feel like it’s a blessing every day for me to be here, and I feel that we have good people around us and talented players and coaches around us, and I’ll do anything I can do to put them in a position to be successful. There’s only one goal in this business, and that’s why we all got into it, and that’s shooting for the stars.
Q: How and why will you be a better coach in Year 2?
A: I work hard at coaching, trying to get better myself each and every day. I’m my biggest critic. It’s important for me to improve, as well as for this football team to improve.
Q: What was the biggest lesson you learned from a year ago?
A: The most important thing is I can’t make this about myself. It’s not about me, it’s about the people around me and how I can lead through service. We put a lot of time and effort into evaluating the program outside of schematics to find ways to make it better. We found over 100 things we could change and improve and we continue to find ways to try to make it better and more effective and efficient and we can never be satisfied.....
Q: What have you learned about what it means to be the head coach of the New York Football Giants?
A: I realize that the fan base for the Giants has the same goal that we all have, and that’s to put the fifth trophy in the case. The fan base is very similar to myself, and the rest of the building is brutally honest with what they see, and they’ll give that to you.
Q: Wellington Mara once said: “I’d like to have a team that says, ‘Buckle up your chin straps, pally. We’re gonna knock your jocks off.” Do you have that kind of team?
A: We have a physical, heavy-handed football team. We feel that as we practice and as we continue to grow together and get better, that will really show itself.
Q: I’ve heard you use the word combative. Is that a word that you want this team to aspire to?
A: Absolutely. Physical, heavy-handed and combative. That’s the type of style we need to play with. We don’t want to be reckless but we want to be relentless.
Q: How much do you like this team?
A: I like this team. Like I said before, we’re about a 7...
Q: How and where did the whole thought of empathy begin for you?
A: I was in Florida, spending time with my wife and kids and watching the news unfold last year heading into the first season as the head coach, just seeing that the world was in a little bit of a different place it seemed like to me at the time … but I don’t get out much. I guess I just took notice, and felt that we needed to address it as a team.
That was when the team officially became ' empathetic. '
Q: What does that do for a team, to have empathy on a football team?
A: I think that you have players and coaches and staff members from all walks of life, all different ethnic groups, you have different ages, different backgrounds, socio-economic status growing up, whatever the case may be. So I think that it’s important that we try to put ourselves in the shoes of others and what they have gone through or maybe what their parents have gone through for them to get to where they are today.
Q: The last leadership/management book you read.
A: “Simple Rules” [by Donald Sull].
Q: What is your message to Giants fans about this team and this season?
A: Keep making it loud for our defense in MetLife Stadium, and they’ll reward you.
Sounds simple.
Pt 2 Simple Rules.)- The book McAdoo was reading was Simple Rules.
Simple Rules: How to Thrive in a Complex World:simple rules tame complexity better than complex solutions.
The rules work best in situations where people and organizations need to make decisions and take action quickly. <-- remember that. To be effective, the book says, simple rules must meet four conditions: They must be limited in number, tailored to the person or organization using them, applied to well-defined activities, and open to giving people latitude to exercise discretion. Already I am lost but Ben presses on.
The best rules aren’t just the first ideas that occur to you.
The Giants did not visit an amusement park. Rather During a team meeting, McAdoo played a video simulating a roller coaster ride. It was a hit, according to those in the room. Players were laughing, throwing their hands up in the air as they hit each 'high point' and careened down, before 'rising' back up.
Simple rules-- he out thought the original thought of going to the amusement park, too much time can't trust the guys, injuries, and made a quick, simple solution to show the players a video; a first person view of a rollercoaster ride.
The video helped McAdoo get a simple message across: An NFL season is like a roller coaster, full of ups and downs, and the Giants must be prepared for the inevitable peaks and valleys ahead. It also serves as a window into McAdoo's coaching mind.
McAdoo is up and down. Maybe a pretty girl bouncing on a trampoline would of achieved an even better result. Mcadoo's mission is to educate, and win games. But the Giants are going to enjoy themselves, move around a bit, no steady steamer plowing out into the big storm, the stormy seas and that giant wave... steady they go.... No, Rollercoaster.
But it's just gone down.
McAdoo use four key words when discussing his philosophy: Coaching, teaching, parenting and leading.
Would it be fair to say he has failed this year in all four?
The culture he has instilled: Is it toxic?
McAdoo majored in health and physical education at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and received a master's degree in kinesiology at Michigan State. He's a football coach, but he considers himself a teacher first.
"Don't ever forget [teaching]," he said in a 2012 interview when he was the Packers' quarterback coach. "I believe I'm a good teacher, and I'm working at being a great teacher. I want to be the best teacher."
The Bast Teacher.
Team president and CEO John Mara said in January his first impression of McAdoo was, "this guy is a teacher, and he's got an edge to him."
What of the differentiation when McAdoo and his assistants work with individual players?
"I've been fortunate to do projects and be around discussions on multiple intelligences.-? We try to incorporate different ways of teaching and learning, as we can," McAdoo said. "Whether it's read it to them, have them read it, show them a picture, show them a video, stand up, walk through it, talk through it, or doing it at full speed. And then we go back and give them immediate one-on-one feedback when it's possible."
So you talk real slow to Jackrabbit?
Nat Berhe says)
Take safety Nat Berhe. McAdoo's first year with the Giants was Berhe's rookie season. The 2014 fifth-round pick said he's felt a connection with McAdoo since then. But their relationship further developed last season, when Berhe missed the entire year after calf surgery.
Berhe would be rehabbing in the weight room. A few times a week, McAdoo would stop by, and coach and player would chat.
"I remember walking away and going, 'Man, this guy is great. I can see him being a head coach, for sure,'" Berhe said. "He's just a great coach, in my opinion. I've had a lot of coaches in my life, and you see a coach like coach McAdoo and you go, 'OK.' He already seems like he's 10 steps ahead of you, and he's fun to be around."
"It's not revolution," Berhe added. "It's evolution."
And now we are full back to revolution. What happened?
Faster, faster, kill, kill ) A New Self help Book for Ben.
Ben Mcadoo began to speed up his decision making even more. The new self help book he has been reading is all about quick decisions. It's called The Five Second Rule.
The authors identify two types of simple rules: Those that can help you make decisions and those that can help you do things. Decision rules set boundaries, prioritize alternatives, and establish stopping points.
Process rules help people execute tasks, coordinate group action, and establish the proper timing of tasks.
and now the hair...
The Giants started out a fresh 0-5 since their head coach changed up his head style. And really haven't won since. One game. Coincidence? McAdoo showed up at the Giants facility wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with a picture of himself with the words “Benny with the good hair’’ – a play on the lyrics in Beyonce’s “Sorry’’ about “Becky with the good hair.’’
What caused this make over from fun out of shape guy to slick rick? By now we had Mini McAdoo that little kid and Ben was getting almost famous. Where is he now!-- That little kid- I bet I know what he was NOT on halloween!!!!! But we had a bit of a cult of Ben going down. The suit, the mustache and now the hair. With terminator sun shades to boot.
The author of The Five Second Rule's story)
One night, she noticed a commercial on TV that showed a rocket launch. 5…4…3…2…1 – go! She thought it was stupid at first, but the next morning, she decided to launch herself out of bed, just like a rocket. After counting down from five, she stood up, and that’s how she discovered The 5 Second Rule. It changed everything... ok, I guess...
Today, as she spreads awareness of the rule, she defines it as follows:
“If you have an impulse to act on a goal, you must physically move within 5 seconds or your brain will kill the idea.”
And so NY Giant game plan after game plan has been put together in this way; taking only first thoughts into consideration. An offensive line, a running game, a defense all done rather quickly. All first thoughts, Thoughts he got wrong before the season even began; Mcadoo decisions they come faster and faster.
Here are 3 reasons why this simple idea of a 5-second countdown really works:
Through little acts of courage, the 5 Second Rule makes you less afraid over time.
There are reasons the “right time” will never come, so you just have to start.
The 5 Second Rule helps to override your feelings, a tactic which is called psychological intervention.
How does that translate to football?
The sequence of events usually isn’t think, then act, but feel, then act.--> Eli 'feels' afraid then he acts too fast.
As a result, the simple reason we often don’t act all is that we “don’t feel like it.” Jackrabbit, Landon they don't feel like playing. JPP. To solve this problem, we should look at successful professional athletes who inspire us. They consider feelings such as them being tired as suggestions, rather than absolutes,--> which allows them to override them.
What you’re doing then is called psychological intervention on a very small scale: You’re changing your behavior to impact how you feel, rather than hoping for the process to happen in reverse.
Ok I get it now. I got to ' feel ' like winning. But how can I use psychological Intervention to beat the Kansas City Chiefs?
only Ben Mcadoo knows. -stoney