On the benefits of short-term thinking......

Is the goal to go back and win the Super Bowl again?

"Well, that's too far away.  The goal right now is to put a good competitive team together.   Then the goal would be to have our team compete and work the way it needs to work.  To have  a good Spring, then to have a good training camp, then to be ready for the season.  So, we can only control what we can control in the short term - this week, our next opportunity."

-Bill Belichick, as transcribed from this fascinating interview with a fairly successful football coach

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