Vacations to the Jersey shore as a child gave the Green Bay Packers' defensive coordinator a glimpse of the life. His father Cheap Jordan Whitehead Jersey , a high school football coach in suburban Philadelphia, took a briefcase to the beach, settled a chair into the sand and went to work.
"I do the same ... But it's a backpack. I'm a little more with the times," Pettine said.
The lessons passed on by dad stay with him to this day.
Mike Pettine Sr., who died in Feburary 2017, was one of the most successful coaches in Pennsylvania prep history. Pettine, 51, is coaching again in the NFL after being hired by head coach Mike McCarthy to oversee the Packers defense. He returned after largely staying out of football following a two-year stint as head coach of the Cleveland Browns, serving as a consultant with Seattle in 2017.
"I thought it was normal for everybody else's dad to carry a briefcase on to the beach," Pettine said after a recent Packers practice. "He always had (football) on his mind, it was always there. If it wasn't direct, it was always kind of lurking. He always had pen and paper close, if an idea popped into his head."
Those ideas often worked.
The elder Pettine won 326 games at Central Bucks West High School and four state titles. He retired in 1999 following a third consecutive unbeaten season.
Pettine played for his father and later served as an assistant coach. He ended up across the field from his father, too Joel Iyiegbuniwe Jersey Bears , after taking the head coaching job at rival North Penn 鈥?matchups that often made Philadelphia-area headlines. Pettine took over a team that went from hovering at about .500 to challenging his father's team for state supremacy.
All five head-to-head meetings went to Dad.
"The headline 'Father knows best' was getting a little bit old," Pettine quipped.
The elder Pettine was a Philadelphia Eagles fan, though he had no qualms about rooting for whatever team that his son was working for as he climbed the NFL coaching ladder. Pettine's first stop in the pros came in 2002 as an assistant with the Baltimore Ravens.
Dad would serve as a consultant. Pettine would send him DVDs to view film. Later, he could watch on an iPad.
"A lot of times he would start the conversations with, 'I know I'm just a high school football coach, however ...,'" Pettine recounted. "He would give us 10 things and they were all dead on. ... He just had a great eye for the game."
A high school coach can sometimes resemble a drill sergeant on the job. The style in the NFL is a bit different. For Pettine, it's about creating an environment where players and coaches work together.
But he admired the way his father adjusted to players in a career that started in the 1960s.
"I thought his strength was his ability to adapt, where he goes from an age of kids where they never questioned authority and by the time he finished that had essentially flipped," he said.
"And I think you have to be able to adapt, and I feel the same way when you're working with NFL players," he said. "I just think it's important to know your audience, understand that you're working with the, trying to help them be successful Raiders P.J. Hall Jersey , which in turn will help you be successful."
Team film sessions at CB West with Pettine Sr., on Mondays after Friday games stick out, too.
"You would never know (they won) if you sat in on those film sessions 鈥?you would think they lost by 30 when they had won by 30," Pettine said. "But I'm a big believer in there's no better teaching tool than seeing it on film. You paint a picture, you show a guy, 'Hey, this is how it's supposed to look.'"
It was a way that his father held his players accountable, which is also important to Pettine.
"My dad said, 'Stop the projector, turn on the lights. Quick, stand up and explain to your teammates what you were just doing.' Nobody wanted that to happen," Pettine said. "And that's something I've always believed, being honest with your players, being direct Customized Detroit Lions Jerseys , that's by far the best way to go about things."
With one big difference.
"I don't turn on the lights," Pettine said with a laugh.
Bills general manager Brandon Beane wasn’t fooling around when saying he had a lot of work to do shortly after Buffalo enjoyed its first playoff appearance in 18 years.
The transformation Beane began during his first season on the job continued into the start of the NFL’s free-agency period Wednesday, when Buffalo took the next step in overhauling its quarterback position.
Aside from formally announcing trading third-year starter Tyrod Taylor to Cleveland, the Bills signed former Cincinnati Bengals backup AJ McCarron to a two-year contract.
And don’t expect the Bills to stop there in addressing a role that has been unsettled since Hall of Famer Jim Kelly retired following the 1996 season. Beane has stockpiled enough picks – two each in the first three rounds – to target one of the highly touted quarterback prospects available in the draft next month.
McCarron’s addition at the least provides Buffalo with an experienced quarterback to serve in a potential bridge role while a younger quarterback develops. The Bills began the day with 2017 fifth-round draft pick, Nathan Peterman, as the only quarterback on their roster.
McCarron spent the past four seasons backing up Andy Dalton after the Bengals selected him in the fifth round of the 2014 draft.
The 27-year-old was a two-time national champion at Alabama but appeared in just 11 games in Cincinnati, mostly in mop-up duties. McCarron did start the final three games of the 2015 season and led the Bengals to the playoffs after Dalton broke his thumb.
Against Pittsburgh in the wild-card playoff game, McCarron had the Bengals in position to win their first playoff game since the 1990 season. Jeremy Hill however lost a fumble, and penalties on Vontaze Burfict and Adam ”Pacman” Jones set up the Steelers for a winning field goal in the final seconds.
McCarron was nearly traded to Cleveland last season, but the deal fell through after the Browns failed to submit the paperwork on time.
And he only became eligible to enter free agency after an independent arbitrator last month ruled McCarron’s rookie season counted toward his NFL tenure even though he spent the year on the non-football injury list because of a sore passing shoulder.
The Bills also confirmed the series of trades and signings they made over the past week.
Starting left tackle Cordy Glenn was shipped to Cincinnati in a trade agreed to Monday in which the Bengals and Bills also swapped first-round picks. Buffalo moved up nine spots by acquiring the Bengals’ 12th selection, while giving up the 21st pick.
As for free agents, the Bills confirmed their most high-profile addition in reaching a deal to sign former Carolina Panthers defensive tackle Star Lotulelei to a five-year contract. They added a pass-rushing specialist in defensive end Trent Murphy, who agreed to a three-year contract.
The Bills added defensive depth by agreeing to sign safety Rafael Bush and linebacker Julian Stanford to two-year contracts.
The start of the free agency signing period also meant the Bills risk losing several starters now that their contracts expired. Linebackers Preston Brown and Ramon Humber became unrestricted free agents, as did cornerback E.J. Gaines and receiver Jordan Matthews.
Buffalo’s overhaul comes despite the team finishing 9-7 and ending a 17-year playoff drought Preston Brown Color Rush Jersey , the longest active streak in North America’s four professional sports. The Bills were eliminated following a 10-3 loss to Jacksonville in the AFC wild-card playoff game.
Beane was already looking ahead to making changes a few days after the loss.
”We have a long way to go, we really do,” Beane said. ”We have a lot of work to do.”
The Bills strengthened their defensive line by adding Lotulelei, a five-year starter at Carolina. He will play alongside Kyle Williams, who returns for a 13th season after agreeing to a one-year contract on Tuesday.
Murphy has the potential of improving the pass rush, which finished tied for 30th in the NFL with just 27 sacks last season. He spent the past four seasons in Washington after being selected in the second round of the 2014 draft. Listed at 6-foot-5 and 250 pounds, he had 15 sacks in 47 games, including nine in 2016.
Murphy missed all of last season after tearing two ligaments in his left knee in a preseason game against Baltimore. Had he not been injured, Murphy would have missed the first four games of the season serving an NFL suspension for violating the NFL’s performance enhancers policy.
Several holes remain including center, after Eric Wood was diagnosed with a career-ending neck injury in January.
Not including Wood, there are only 14 players left on Buffalo’s roster who played for the team in 2016.
Beane’s roster overhaul began shortly after he was hired in May to replace Doug Whaley, who was fired a day after last year’s draft.
He traded starting receiver Sammy Watkins and starting cornerback Ronald Darby on the same day in August. He also traded high-priced defensive tackle Marcell Dareus to Jacksonville in October.
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