Those staff meetings were really something, because it was apparent he knew exactly, precisely, what he wanted to do, which included exactly what he wanted us to do. And to make sure we did it, he gave us his big red binder playbook with all of his complex formations in it. But it wasn’t like any regular playbook I’d ever seen. He had gone out and had it printed up almost like a textbook; routes and X’s and O’s were neat and clean—professional, not hand drawn and messy. Nobody had done it like that before. That’s what characterized everything Bill Walsh did: professionalism, first class.
