NFL franchises only realistically compete against eight other competent teams
Michael Lombardi · Michael Lombardi – Leadership Through Football (Capital Allocators, EP.75) · Nov 12, 2018 · at 40:38
Former NFL executive Michael Lombardi explains organizational alignment and Bill Walsh's philosophy on competition to Ted Seides.
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“Walsh told me in 1984, we are only competing against eight teams. That was when we had 28 teams in the league. He was right. Today they're still only competing against eight teams. Some teams have no chance, in part because they don't have a culture, in part because they're fighting the Civil War, in part because they don't have the right structure organizationally to be able to deal with it.”
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