Ron Rivera talks a lot about culture. No one embodied it more than Alex Smith.
Les Carpenter, The Washington Post
March 2, 2021
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Washington Football Team quarterback Alex Smith warms up before a game in November 2020.Washington Post photo by Jonathan Newton
For more than a year, Washington Football Team Coach Ron Rivera has done all he can to wipe away the franchise s previous, dismal decade as if peeling rust from the side of a dumpster.
One by one, the pillars of that recent past are being tossed away because they represent a time from before his arrival and are thus reminders of a history he must rewrite. Gone is Trent Williams, the perennial Pro Bowl left tackle. Gone is Kyle Smith, the promising young executive who gave the team four strong drafts. Gone soon will be the organization s all-time sacks leader, Ryan Kerrigan. Gone, as well, will be Alex Smith.
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How a retired Army Ranger helped Ron Rivera separate the interesting from the important
Sam Fortier, The Washington Post
Jan. 7, 2021
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1of3Retired Lt. Col. JC Glick became a confidant of Washington Football Team Coach Ron Rivera when they worked together in Carolina.Courtesy of JC Glick.Show MoreShow Less
2of3Glick, a leadership consultant, became a confidant Rivera when they worked together in Carolina.Courtesy of JC Glick.Show MoreShow Less
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In combat zones around the world, including Iraq and Afghanistan, Lt. Col. JC Glick spent a fair amount of his time reading through pages and pages of SitReps, or situation reports. The updates his platoons filed every day helped commanders track targets of interest, but they were sometimes wordy or hard to parse. The former Army Ranger often found himself sifting through a mountain of paperwork, trying to puzzle out what actually mattered.
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