In a 25-17 win over San Diego, Dungy saw some altered habits key an upset. He got one big indication things were starting to turn late in that first season. It took some time for Dungy to break through to the Bucs. He knew from experience that it was easier to convince someone to adopt a new behavior if there was something familiar at the beginning and the end. Habits are a three-step loop - the cure, the routine, and the reward - but Dungy only wanted to attack the middle step, the routine. And the secret to changing old habits was using what was already insider players’ heads. So rather than creating new habits, Dungy was going to change players’ old ones. No athlete is going to abandon those patterns simply because some new coach says to. Players spent their lives building the habits that got them to the NFL. Oh no, he wasn’t going to create new habits, Dungy would answer. How, the owners would ask, are you going to create those new habits? “They do ordinary things, but they do them without thinking, too fast for the other team to react. “Champions don’t do extraordinary things,” Dungy would explain. If he could instill the right habits, his team would win. He wanted them to react automatically, habitually. He wanted to get players to stop making so many decisions during a game, he said. In his job interviews, he would patiently explain his belief that the key to winning was changing players habits. Part of the problem was Dungy’s coaching philosophy. He detailed how Dungy thought he could prompt change with the perennial loser Tampa Bay Buccaneers when he became their head coach in 1996.īefore that, Dungy explained his intended approach four times to owners looking for a head coach. I was also struck by a section about Dungy in a book I read in the last year: “The Power of Habit” by Charles Duhigg. And he strived to offer the same sort of coaching to his players - every time. Dungy loved the calm explanations he got about mistakes he made and things he may have done wrong. He played for Chuck Noll as a member of the Pittsburgh Steelers, and he always appreciated that Noll wasn’t a yeller.
As calm and measured as he was, I wondered if a periodic explosion could ever have a super-sized effect on his team. I admire Dungy a great deal, and remember one conversation I had with him about his coaching style. He did excellent work with the Colts, culminating in the team’s Super Bowl XLI title won on Feb.
20 made his biggest mark with the Indianapolis Colts: Tony Dungy.
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