There are reasons why Todd Bowles is a stoic sideline figure. It’s not just how he is.
Bowles was a guest on _Rooted In Progress_, a [WFLA-TV](https://wfla.com) production, and explained that he’d like fans to know he is much more vocal that it looks during games.
Staying extra cool, per Bowles, is good for his team.
> “On the field for me, it takes me a lot to get pissed off, but once I get there, there’s no coming back,” Bowles said.
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> “There’s going to be a blowup and there’s going to be a volcano and there are going to be casualties that are in my way; that’s going to be casualties for everything. And I think better when I’m calmer and I can stay three or four steps ahead, and the guys are calmer because we’re very young on the sidelines. So it’s important for me to be calm. Now I’ll talk during the week in practice; you know, the gloves are off. Everything is everything. In games, you’ve got to almost make adjustments almost every play, so you gotta have your wits about you and I understand that about me.
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> “Early in my career, I blew my top and I messed up the play after that. And I will never forget that. So that was a lesson for me in my younger coaching days, so it’s kind of how I kind of adapted it right now.”
Yeah, fans like watching the in-your-face sideline coaches, but that’s not key to championship.
Perhaps Bowles gets his sideline angst out on Monday mornings. The head coach explained you can find him in the gym.
“I work out every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 3:30 a.m.,” Bowles said. “I do a cardio circuit weight-wise, and Tuesday and Thursday are big stretch days for me. And our strength coach has a program, but I’m in the weight room Monday, Wednesday, Friday at 3:30.”
Bowles may be a lot of things, but undisciplined is not one of them.
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