“Yeah, there’s plenty of go-to guys, but I don’t really have to do that. These dudes are competitive. And I don’t want them to lose that competitive spirit. If we don’t have scuffles or tussles, I don’t know if I’m gonna find the word…”
“Yes. Then we’re probably not as competitive as I aspire to have our team to be. But we do have a simple rule. Two guys fighting is the max, and we’re not gonna have full teammate melees. So two guys are fighting, they’re fighting, everybody else’s job is to break them up. And we have to be proactive about that in terms of showing them and teaching them. And our guys do an unbelievable job at pulling guys apart. So then you’re not wasting time. We got so much work to do, we can’t waste two minutes breaking up a fight.“
”What are we doing? Everybody else break them up, put the ball down and go. And so, there are some consequences if we do waste too much time. I’m gonna get some time back somehow some way. But again, you want that.”
”Now, here’s the other side of things, right? And I don’t know how many of you guys have brothers. But I say this all the time, me and my brother, when we would fight, it’s just like brothers, we fight. But there’s a line you don’t cross, right? When you’re fighting your brother, if you love them, some people might think I’m crazy, but you just don’t cross a certain line where, I mean, everybody’s line might be a little bit different. But that’s ours.”
“If you two guys are fighting don’t cross the line and don’t take it off the field. It can’t be personal. It’s just, OK, you went too hard, I thought you went to hard. I’m mad, I threw a punch or whatever, let’s break it up and let’s go. But non-negotiable is to carry everything off the field. And if I hear about that, then we have a bigger issue. Our captains and our leaders gotta make sure we stop it or I ultimately do.”