Of course, it also helps when the players doing that leading are among your best players.
Newton's ability to impact a game is obvious, as a former league MVP who has set all-time league records. Reddick's leading the NFC in sacks with 10.5. McCaffrey is leading the NFC in yards from scrimmage.
So when they step up, and show up, it matters. And that also shows up on tape when players are together, and can point out the mistakes they see.
"It's just a mindset of consistently trying to fight to get better," McCaffrey said. "Coach says it a lot, but don't just fight to win, but fight to play great football. That's fighting to look good on tape each day. When you really peel the onion back and look at the bigger picture, you see the guys who are doing it the right way and the guys who need to step up. When you win, a lot of that gets hidden.
"But that's the mentality all of us have to have, is the constant urge to get better."
Rhule is fortunate that so many of his top players have bought into that message. Now, there's more work to be done to implement it.
When asked this week about the team's persistent problems with penalties, Rhule said that at a certain point, the coaching staff can't make players touch the DBO sign anymore; they have to police themselves.
That's what Reddick and others are doing now, and why it doesn't matter if it hurts someone's feelings.
"We have to stop worrying about if somebody can handle the constructive criticism and get that point across," Reddick said. "We're talking about grown men here. We've all got one job to do. That's to win. And if we don't win, then we all failed at our job."
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