There I was, after my third back surgery, lying in a dark hotel room in a lot of pain. On the phone my agent told me, “The Eagles are going to release you.” I was out. Worse, I didn’t know if I was going to ever...
In the NFL, every road trip had one goal: to win the game. Even when the game was in your hometown, winning was the goal. We would get in the day before and leave a couple hours afterwards, or the next morning. A true one-day...
I can count on two hands the number of NFL players I know who still have their money. According to Sports Illustrated,1 two years after retiring, three-quarters of NFL players are broke (or nearly), and five years after retiring, more than half of former NBA...
First, it was a veteran testing my tolerance for hazing. Fistfight. Then defensive players with an extra push in practice? Fistfight. A fellow offensive lineman trying to “initiate” me to the team in my 10th year? FistfIght. Every year when I was in the NFL, I got into...
Bring Your Team Together Over the years, I’ve seen three key ways that accomplished leaders inspired and pulled their whole team together, gaining focus and function. As a team member, I’ve also experienced how breaking these three rules can break your team, losing you respect and...
Improve Employee Engagement Here are five ways I’ve seen winning teams improve employee engagement. Use these ideas at your company to boost your team’s productivity. #1 Limit Media As a player in the NFL, if your phone goes off during a meeting, you get fined $1500. If they catch...
The Power of Enthusiasm Who is going to sign somebody with three back surgeries? No one. My career was over. I had just gotten my 3rd back injury, I could barely walk, and I needed to wait a full week in Philadelphia before flying home to start...
The coach made one poor decision and we lost the game. Then we lost 13 more. That “one poor decision” the coach made is what we call nut-cutting time. In three specific plays our coach tried to do too much. As a team we knew we...
The Case For Positive Thoughts: There's something to be said when we arrive at a conclusion all by ourselves. When someone gives us a piece of advice, we may or may not take it. But if we can think and feel the information ourselves, we can...
He put both fists on my chest and drove me back towards the quarterback. F*ck. I messed up and it was my fault. A player from the other team had given me a bull rush in the last preseason game of the year. All of a...