Is that how Tom Landry used to do it in Dallas?
You're post reminds of this old timer clip - one of my fav's. Mad Dog Curtis and his discipline. The gap between genius and insanity is measured by success - goes one well known saying.
Mike Curtis is pretty darn successful guy. SO is Bill Curry. Both entered the NFL as OFFENSIVE players - Curry at Center - where he stayed, and Curtis at fullback - and was moved to linebacker.
I've talked with Bill Curry before. He said that one of the championship seasons the Colts had, was entirely because Curtis stood up in the locker room when the team was 3-3, and said that if he determines that anyone in the locker room wasn't going full speed and all out in everything, every day, from there on out - he would kick their ass, and it did happen to a player shortly thereafter, and not again, and they did win another title (they also happened to have Johnny Unitas playing QB).
Curry got tired of getting the snot beat out of him as a rookie with the packers, by Ray Nitschke, and during one pit drill, head butted him in the face mask has hard as he could, and smacked him with a forearm. Nitschke went to Lombardi after the play, and told him to keep Curry..."Coach, keep that guy, I think he just broke my jaw." Was essentially what Nitschke said.
I know - all of you think I'm full of . Go find out if it's true or not. Smashmouth is not play calling it's playing. It's an attitude.
I wish I could find the clip of Pierre Paul bleeding out all over himself from his mouth on Sunday night against the Eagles. I hate the eagles, but I respect that Andy Reid puts a smashmouth team on the field, each and every year. There's going to be no physical intimidation or sense of physical weakness evident in an Eagles team.