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Former NFL general manager and three-time Super Bowl winner Michael Lombardi reveals what makes football organizations tick at the championship level. From personnel to practice to game-day decisions that win titles, Lombardi shares what he learned working with coaching legends Bill Walsh of the 49ers, Al Davis of the Raiders, and Bill Belichick of the Patriots, among others, during his three decades in football.Why do some NFL franchises dominate year after year while others can never crack the code of success? For 30 years Michael Lombardi had a front-row seat and full access as three titans--Bill Walsh, Al Davis, and Bill Belichick--reinvented the game, turning it into a national obsession while piling up Super Bowl trophies. Now, in Gridiron Genius, Lombardi provides the blueprint that makes a successful organization click and win--and the mistakes unsuccessful organizations make that keep them on the losing side time and again.
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Using the sports world as his backdrop, Michael provides the audience with a fun, entertaining, engaging presentation that will make you laugh, think and most of all help your organization win championships, just like Belichick and Walsh.
Look, Mike's one of the smartest people I know," said Belichick. "He's one of the smartest people I've worked with. He was huge asset to me for the two years he was here. So Mike's a smart guy and he studies football and he knows it very well. I would say probably on all teams."
I've worked for, coached alongside and managed men who have won 11 of those Lombardi trophies, many of them the immediate or delayed result of the kind of foresight, ingenuity and sheer force of will displayed by Belichick during that goal-line stand in Arizona. The story behind that now-legendary play is just one example of many that I have collected over my career. I could argue that no one in modern NFL history has had as much direct access as I have to the men who most changed the game of pro football. And I would argue that no one is better suited to highlight and explain the brilliant lessons and revelatory insights of these masters, on the field and off.
