The Seattle Seahawks would like running back Thomas Rawls to take an approach to work that we wish all our bosses requested us to do. The Seahawks want Thomas Rawls to try less hard.

Yes! Greatest bosses ever!

OK. So, uh, wait a second. There's context to that. It comes in the form of Tom Cable, of all people.

Here is the message Cable sent to Rawls.

“Don’t try so damn hard,” he said, via PFT. “You see it all the time when guys are trying to make a statement or they’re trying to stake a claim to something, sometimes they kind of overstep on the gas if you will. He just needs to relax and be Tommy and play ball. … Stop trying to do so much. Just take what’s there. Stick with your discipline and let the game come to you. Don’t try to go and force everything.”

“I tell him all the time, you get one cut,” Cable said. “You don’t get three, you get one. Make one cut, one cut. ‘Ok, ok.’ One cut. Again, just getting him to take a breath, stay in the moment, don’t try to do too much. You’re not going to become a 1,000-yard runner on one run. You’re not. So until he figures that out and we can help him do that, he’s just pressing so hard it’s hard on him.”

As for what the running back himself thinks?

“I’m one of those guys, man, if it’s one play, I’m going to take advantage of that opportunity,” Rawls said. “It’s all about opportunities to me. … I work so hard, man. I don’t beat myself up about it. It’s just one of those things where the coaches, whenever they’re ready to call on me, I’m out there. I’m always going to be that way.”

Can we all try less hard?