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Here's another reason I think Eric Mangini is one of the brightest young coaches in the game.

The level of detail he uses to orchestrate practices is simply uncanny. Last year, he blared all sorts of music during practice to make the players concentrate more intensely on what they had to do. But these days, he's more inclined to pipe Mozart through the loudspeakers at practice.

And there is a reason it's Mozart and not some other composer or trendy group from today's music. Turns out Mangini had heard that people who listen to Mozart in a learning environment actually pick things up more quickly.

"From different studies they assume, and I may be a little wrong on the technical side, but Mozart's music and brainwaves are very similar, and it stimulates learning," Mangini said. "They play it in a lot of schools around the country kind of underneath, very low, to do that. So I thought if that's the case, why not give it a shot?"

More Mangini: "I bought all the Baby Mozart when [sons] Jake and Luke were young. I didn't really know why I was buying it. But then talking to different people, somebody brought it up and someone else reinforced it. I looked into it, saw that there had been studies on it, so I thought there might be something there."

Very cool stuff.