tedy bruschi

There comes a certain point when you’re a veteran and you’ve been told that so many times – you’ve been there for so long, you’ve done your job, you know how to do your job, so you have to take what Bill Belichick is teaching you to the next level. So for me, towards the end, it wasn’t just ‘do your job.’ It was ‘do your job and then help someone else do their job better.’ That encompasses everything. It encompasses locker room behavior, what you’re doing off the field, developing relationship with your teammates, being accountable for them on the field and off the field – getting to know them. When you form those relationships, and have those teams, that is when your team is the most strong. … Maybe some of these veterans need to learn that. … If I were sitting in that locker room right now, and they asked me to speak in front of them, I would look all those veterans in the eyes and say ‘Take more ownership of your team. Your voice needs to be just as loud as Belichick’s. You own that team just as much as Robert Kraft. … In your mind, in your soul, in your heart, own that team like it’s yours.’

https://www.patspropaganda.com/there-comes-a-certain-point-when-youre-a-veteran/