Famous theoretical physicist Albert Einstein, one of the most brilliant men to have ever lived, is largely credited as defining insanity as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Denver Broncos head coach Nathaniel Hackett is not exactly an Einstein.
Whether Einstein ever actually said those words is beyond the point, as the premise of that quote is something quite simple: a failing strategy won’t be fixed by doubling down on it. The narrative and outcome will only change when the strategy and planning does.
Hackett believes otherwise.
It isn’t that he is accepting failure, per se, it’s just that he’s failing to accept his strategy as the failure it so obviously is.