Lovie Smith is no stranger to old school R&B. The former 2005 NFL coach fo the year compared his Tampa 2 defense to the timeless genre.
Just as Smith was introducing rookies on defense to his principles of the Tampa 2 at rookie minicamp on May 13, he was also indoctrinating the entire rookie class with old school R&B on the Houston Texans’ practice fields outside of Houston Methodist Training Center.
“I wake up every day to music,” Smith said. “I’m a music guy, to say the least. You can tell I’m probably a little bit more towards Motown than rap music, that’s probably easy to see. But you kind of start practice off the same way just about everywhere I’ve been.”
Smith acknowledged that the game of football isn’t played in silence. Therefore, music is inevitably a part of the game.
“Music has become a big part of practices nowadays for young people,” said Smith. “You go in our locker room, there’s nothing wrong with it. There’s a time for it. The game isn’t played in silence. So, I like music at practice, and at certain times, loud music at practice.”
Smith uses old school R&B to reinforced that he is an old school coach and there are tenets he still believes about the game of football, and his convictions will never change.
Said Smith: “Most of the time when I say something, I really believe it. I am old school, and there’s a lot of things that you don’t want to leave us completely, and music of the past is one of them that says an awful lot.”
The Texans are hopeful that Smith’s old school ways bring a new form of winning attitude to NRG Stadium. If nothing else, Smith is at least keeping old school R&B alive with the younger generation.
