When Andy Reid was the head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles, he would pass messages to quarterback Donovan McNabb via notecards. Reid called them nuggets. They were usually short, just a thought or goal or a few words of motivation. They weren’t supposed to be life changing.
“His thing was like: ‘I’ll give you a li’l nugget,’” McNabb said. “Just something to take in.”
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Reid was a young coach, and he was always jotting down ideas, a lesson from Bill Walsh or Winston Churchill that would find its way onto a 3 x 5 card. Some of those cards went to McNabb. Others to coaches. But one card in particular ended
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