I take a lot of pride in connecting with people - period.
I am happy and fortunate to join the Cincinnati Bengals as head coach.
There's plenty of times in my life I've coached against my brother, coached against people I've coached with.
It's unfortunate to lose guys in their rookie year.
It's easy to give up. It's even easier to start pointing fingers.
I don't think I'm ever surprised at how high the quarterbacks go. There could be a lot of teams that often times don't have a lot of first-round grades on guys that are going in the first round, and that's just the nature of the business.
What I do notice is, man, I sleep hard. When my head hits the pillow at night, it feels like five o'clock rolls around real quick.
I think, you think critically all day, you've got a lot of decisions to make, so you've got to make sure that you take a couple of seconds every day to relax your brain a little bit.
Like any year, any year with any team, you're always going to look to the draft to help strengthen your roster and free agency.
The people that we met when we lived in Cincinnati, the Midwestern values - I'm from Oklahoma, my wife's from Green Bay - we felt at home in the year we were here.
When you're out there, you aren't paying attention to who you're throwing to. You're looking for the guy that's open.
My father-in-law, Mike Sherman, coached a long, long time, and he just said, 'Be true to yourself. Be who you are, and people will follow you.' And I found that way to work for me.
