Following his visit with the NFL's Atlanta Falcons to pass on his expertise in tackling techniques last month, ex-England rugby coach Stuart Lancaster believes coaches of his sport and those of American football can learn from each other.
Lancaster was invited to spend time with the Falcons after he met Atlanta head coach Dan Quinn and general manager Thomas Dimitroff at a coaching conference in Los Angeles. He spent three days with the Falcons during their mid-June minicamp at the team's training facility in Flowery Branch, Georgia.
"The intensity between top-level international rugby and NFL is similar," Lancaster told ESPN.