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Originally Posted by stevew
I’d consider coaching football to be so much harder than the other sports and it’s puzzling that you’d attempt to shove a novice in there. Whereas MLB managers are virtually drones and NBA coaches are mostly about managing egos with some minor tactics.
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I don't think being a game day NFL head coach is very hard, provided you have a good staff/base. (I also think you underrate NBA head coaches - not a lot of practice time to adapt in the season, but we have seen a lot of tactical brilliance and seismic shifts in how the league plays going forward in the last decade.) It really is more like being a CEO than requiring X&O's knowledge at a certain point... like I think either of us could step in as HC for a game if a Bill Belichick or Andy Reid had to take a sick day, or if someone else did but a (prime) Tom Brady/Peyton Manning was the QB.
But if your team has no established culture, QB, OC, O-Line chemistry... that last one isn't something you can cobble together with upper quartile grit or whatever.