I used to tell the players that professional football is a part-time profession. I used to tell them it gets you ready for your life's work.

In 1969, we decided we had to do certain things technically to win, and we decided to do them then, even though we knew some of the personnel couldn't do it. In other words, instead of adapting the system to the players, we just installed our system. Then we set out to fill our team through the draft.

I tried to look around to see what I wanted to do. Football was something I knew the most about.

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