If They Don’t See It, You Haven’t Taught It

We’ve all preached “details matter.” Winning lives in the little things. We’re trying to build athletes who notice—who read a safety’s leverage on 3rd down or the low-man rotating to protect the rim and act.

One of the most impactful TeamsOfMen sessions we run is Power of Noticing (h/t Kate Mangino’s work). So if you demand noticing every day, here’s a quick test of whether it sticks beyond Xs & Os.

Put the post screenshotted above (4.4M views on X) up to start your next film session.

If your guys don’t notice and don’t react to what shows up at 1 AM—and what follows at 2 AM—can we really claim we’ve built “detail guys”? The meaning isn’t subtle. The schedule slides from sex jokes at 8 AM to football + booze all day… then, at 1 AM, a gender violence based turn, and by 2 AM the cops. That’s a script. That’s normalization.

Sure, some players might not want to say it out loud because you’re in the room. If that’s true, that’s its own culture check. Do they feel safe naming what they see? Can they say, “Coach, that 1 AM line—looks like domestic violence. That’s not funny.”

Run the exercise. Test your work. If we only notice the curl-flat defender but miss the harm right in front of us, we’re not done coaching.

Coach Prompts

• Put the post on screen. Stay silent for 10 seconds: What did you notice—and when?

• Who names the 1 AM–2 AM shift? If no one does, why not in our culture?

• What do we normalize with our laughs, reposts, and silence?

• What’s our plan to practice “notice → name → nudge” the same way we rep reads and reactions?

Player Prompts

• What was the first thing your eyes went to? What did you feel at 1 AM?

• If this showed up in the team group chat, what would you do—co-sign, ignore, or challenge it? Why?

• What’s one “detail” you’re going to start calling out in real life the same way you call out a coverage or rotation?