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Brain on Sports Podcast: Mike Smith on managing an NFL locker room

Former Falcons coach Mike Smith discusses what it’s like to oversee an NFL locker room, the challenges of managing personalities to turn around a franchise and the mental side of the what-have-you-done-for-me-lately coaching world.
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“This is Your Brain on Sports” is a weekly podcast from Sports Illustrated in which SI executive editor Jon Wertheim and Tufts University psychology professor Sam Sommers explore the intersection of sports and human nature—what the world of sports has to teach us about who we are, what we care about and the forces that shape our behavior.

On this week’s episode, former Falcons coach Mike Smith discusses what it’s like to oversee an NFL locker room, the challenges of managing personalities to turn around a franchise and the mental side of the what-have-you-done-for-me-lately coaching world.

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