The Why Is Everything: A Story of Football, Rivalry, and Revolution
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From an award-winning journalist, the inside story of the brilliant, hypercompetitive young coaches who threw out decades of received wisdom to fundamentally remake America’s most popular sport.
When Kyle Shanahan became the NFL’s youngest offensive coordinator in 2008, he had one prevailing rule: Tell me the why. If a colleague couldn’t justify his position by providing the unassailable reasoning behind it, he was told to get the hell out of Shanahan’s office. Shanahan and the members of his coaching tree―including Sean McVay, Mike McDaniel, Raheem Morris, and Matt LaFleur―came up in a sport where innovation was the exception, not the rule. There had been brilliant football minds before, from Paul Brown to Bill Walsh to Bill Belichick. But for the most part, coaches learned a particular system and stuck to it no matter what―no matter the players on their team, no matter what the opponent might do.
This group of young coaches would change all that. The Why Is Everything is the story of old dogmas falling before astonishingly creative new strategies and game plans. Drawing on unmatched access across the league, longtime NFL reporter Mike Silver takes us into the key moments in this still-unfolding revolution, from the education of Mike Shanahan, Kyle’s father and a two-time Super Bowl champion, in the 1980s; to the Washington Redskins’ football laboratory in the early 2010s, where the coaches first worked together, shocking the league with their cutting-edge scheme for rookie quarterback Robert Griffin III; to McVay’s Super Bowl victory in 2022 and Kyle Shanahan’s Super Bowl agony in 2019 and 2024.
Less than a decade after their emergence, these men are the stars of their profession and have helped propel the NFL to new heights of viewership and drama. With The Why Is Everything, Silver reveals how it all happened, and in the process gives us a timeless account of friendship, rivalry, and the never-ending pursuit of perfection.
4 black-and-white illustrations
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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company (October 1, 2024)
Language : English
Hardcover : 448 pages
ISBN-10 : 1324093609
ISBN-13 : 978-1324093602
Item Weight : 1.45 pounds
Dimensions : 5.4 x 1.5 x 9.3 inches
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Original price was: $32.50.$26.69Current price is: $26.69.
Nicole –
Great read if interested in coaching and the history of the Shannahan coaching tree
Overall great read. Very in depth of Mike and Kyle Shannahan’s mental approach to football as well as the coaches that were along for the ride.
James Dumas –
Great all around
The book was set at a great price, was in amazing condition, and sent immediately.
Mr. Mystery –
Touchdown Silver!!!!
Like a great game plan this book is very detail oriented and a winner!A lot of questions about teams, organizations, players and coaches answered.Readers get treated to a lot on the inner workings of the NFL.