Rehearsing Success

Here's a documentary on George Allen that lives at HTTR's YouTube Channel:

Three Cheers for the Redskins

You may have noticed Allen feels a little like Eric Bieniemy. Specifically, getting on guys for not breaking the huddle with energy. We saw this last week EB doing pretty much the same thing.

I mean, there are hundreds of coaches who do that. I don't think it is as common anymore. But this ambience of rah rah, this penchant for enthusiasm mixed ironically with perfectionism, has a tendency to elevate play on the field. 

We are lucky in Washington to have witnessed this fact three times now. The first time was with Vince Lombardi. The second was Allen. The third now is Eric Bieniemy. 

It isn't just enthusiasm these men have in common. It struck me recently that the word "execution" seems to have been a stranger around here for years. Get it right. Do it again. Give me the twos. 

Execution was a word Allen liked to use. Lombardi was the patron saint of execution.

My take away from OTAs and Mini-Camp is EB does not like rehearsing failure. 

It stands to reason rehearsing success will lead to success on the field.

And it leads one to wonder why we weren't rehearsing success before?