How do sports' smartest minds get smarter? Where can they test theories without tipping off competitors?
One by one, day after day, they beat a path down A1A to Mile Marker 104, where the current Yoda sits in his restaurant, or down a side road from there to his five-acre compound in Tavernier.
"It's amazing how it's mushroomed, every day it seems someone else is coming," Jimmy Johnson says.
Dolphins vice president of football operations Mike Tannenbaum took notes for two and a half hours last week in Johnson's restaurant, The Big Chill, in the exact chair opposite Jimmy in which Florida International coach Ron Turner sat a few days earlier.