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How To Get Your Players' Attention Without Screaming Or Yelling

The "Power Pause" Move

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Brendan Cahill
Jan 15, 2024
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Once upon a time, on my freshmen football squad there was Coach Vinny whose preferred method of getting the forty of us screwballs’ attention was screaming at the top of his lungs, a very loving:

“Shut the f*** up and listen!”

Oh yeah - he was a screamer, and a curser. He seemed perpetually on the cusp of a aneurysm.

Wh…

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