It’s an amazing thing to me, that you can spend an entire year explaining how football is your job; how you have available to you a wide variety of analytical information; how theoretically this is all useful.
You spend an entire week in between games, so you’d think the actual games would hold some value, but instead you waste everyone’s time, including that of all your players, and your offensive coordinator, as you pretend the forward pass does not exist.
Possessions in a football game are finite. There is a clock on this game; there is only so much time to work with, and only so much you can do despite your kicker’s excellent work.