National Football League
also referred to as: nfl
includes NFL Draft, NFL Scouting Combine, NFL Organizations
15 statements across 7 episodes · 3 bullish · 0 bearish · 7 people on the record · first statement May 29, 2015 by Michael Lombardi · said 85 times in 19 episodes since 2015 · across every show →
Mentions by year, the whole family
brought up most by Shane Parrish (38), Les Snead (16), Michael Lombardi (8), Bill Belichick (7), Jim Murphy (5), Paul Rabil (3), Balaji Srinivasan (2), Todd Herman (1)
tap a year for its mentions
2026 2 mentions in 1 episode
2025 25 mentions in 6 episodes 4 per episode
- Bill Belichick: 8x Super Bowl Champion on Winning, Leadership, and Discipline
- Be Your Best in 2026: The Most Important Lessons from The Knowledge Project (2025)
- 7 Principles of Inner Excellence to Stay Calm Under Fire | Jim Murphy
- Forensic Account: The Bubble No One is Talking About | Anthony Scilipoti
- Harley Finkelstein: You Must Requalify for Your Role, Every Year
- Netflix Founder Reed Hastings on Scaling High-Trust Culture & Bold Judgment
- every mention in 2025, scene by scene →
2024 1 mention in 1 episode
2023 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2022 23 mentions in 5 episodes 5 per episode
2021 8 mentions in 1 episode
2019 2 mentions in 1 episode
2015 20 mentions in 1 episode
Everything said about National Football League, oldest first
May 29, 2015
May 29, 2015
NFL tactics from four years ago no longer work today
“You don't want to be doing something that was done four years ago because it no longer works today. And so you have to constantly work at it and your time is your only real element that you can challenge and you have to make sure you use your time wisely.”
May 29, 2015 positive
May 28, 2019 positive
Nov 30, 2021
Bill Belichick Spent Six Months Recruiting Paul Rabil for the NFL
“It started with a conversation that we had, which was, I think you could play in the NFL. And I was like, I want to play wide receiver. He was like, I think you'd be a strong safety. And I was like, why? He was like, because you have the size and the speed of …”
Aug 23, 2022
Snead: Hall of Famers require high conscientiousness and rapid cognitive processing speed
“I think in this equation, the players that probably become Hall of Famers are the ones that Are gifted genetically with that physical talent, but they also are gifted, right, or have been socialized or mentored, the conscientiousness to prioritize their life's…”
Aug 23, 2022
Snead: Dominance through roster imbalance creates a bigger edge than balanced spending
“It is probably better to attempt to be dominant and imbalanced somewhere than be balanced in the fact that, okay, we're going to have, we're going to pay one wide receiver, and then we're going to pay two offensive linemen, and we're going to pay one. I, to me…”
May 27, 2025 neutral
Belichick: More NFL games are lost through mistakes than won by excellence
“We've always said more games are lost than won in the National Football League, and when I say lost, I'm saying those type of things, missed opportunities missed assignments poor clock management, just fumbling the situation more than the other team you know, …”
May 27, 2025 neutral
Belichick: An average NFL roster only contains 7 to 10 elite players
“I'd say every team, generally speaking, every team has about, you know, five or six players that are elite, have elite payments, elite contracts, and then you might have some younger players in their first through fourth year, You know, two or three, four, wha…”
May 27, 2025
Belichick used a 'drawer' framework to defer player distractions during seasons
“The drawer was just a way of saying unless it's a family or personal thing that's really important put it in a drawer dealing with it after the season. You know, you, do you need to go to sign these cards at the mall? Do you need to you know, go look for a new…”
May 27, 2025 neutral
Belichick: Tom Brady Began His NFL Rookie Year as Fourth-String Quarterback
“Tom Brady was a fourth string quarterback his rookie year. He had three players ahead of him, and, you know, he just worked his way up. No, no team keeps four quarterbacks at any level, high school, college, NFL. It's really almost unheard of”
May 27, 2025 neutral
Belichick: NFL competition levels out raw talent that dominated lower leagues
“Talent gets you through high school. It might get you through college, but once you get to the NFL level that talent that field levels out, and there are only a few players that have such elite talent that they don't have to work very hard and can stay better …”
May 27, 2025
Jun 10, 2025 positive
Hastings: Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters Proved Me Wrong on Live Sports
“Well on Christmas we had two NFL games, so I would say it is part of that. It's one of the things that Greg and Ted have done because I was always very skeptical not of course of the viewing, but that there could be a good long-term proposition there, and they…”
Nov 25, 2025
Brian Urlacher: Elite NFL players never get tentative after making mistakes
“Like the hall of fame linebacker, Brian Urlacher told me that I asked him, what is the difference between you and the best performers that you've ever NFL that you've ever competed against? And he said, most NFL players, they make a mistake and they get tentat…”