The Game Plan: The Art of Building a Winning Football Team

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As one of the most successful general managers and team presidents in NFL history, few people understand how to create the blueprint for a winning football team like Bill Polian. After building the Buffalo Bills team that went to four consecutive Super Bowls and taking the expansion Carolina Panthers to the NFC Championship just two years after the team's creation, he was responsible for the Indianapolis Colts drafting Peyton Manning with the first overall pick in 1998 and oversaw the team's victory in Super Bowl XLI. Now, Polian shares his blueprint for building a successful football team in The Game Plan . He details the decisions both a team needs to make in the regular season and the offseason to bring teams to the postseason and the NFL's ultimate test of a well-built team: the Super Bowl.

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Bill Polian was a six-time Executive of the Year as general manager of the Bills, Panthers, and Colts. His teams appeared in five Super Bowls, including a win by the Colts in Super Bowl XLI. A 2015 Pro Football Hall of Fame enshrinee, he served as NFL vice president of football under commissioner Paul Tagliabue. He has been an analyst for ESPN and SiriusXM radio and is the co-author of The Game Plan. Vic Carucci has covered the NFL as a writer and broadcaster for five decades. During his wide-ranging career, he has been a national editor for NFL.com and contributor to NFL Network, a senior editor for the Cleveland Browns and an NFL writer and columnist for the Buffalo News. He is a co-host for SiriusXM NFL Radio and a contributor to WGRZ-TV in Buffalo. He has received multiple writing honours from the Associated Press and the Pro Football Writers of America, and is a past president of the PFWA. He is the author of 10 previous books about pro football and a member of the selection committee for the Pro Football Hall of Fame.