The thing about football coaches is they know more about football than I do. They know more about football than you do. And we know a lot about football. We impress our friends and family with how much we know about football. But the vast majority of people who read this, if not all of them, will never reach the level that someone has to reach before they are even considered for NFL head coaching jobs.
But while they all know X’s and O’s backward and forwards, not all of them are great at strategy. As I’ve said before, they’ve spent too much time studying game film, and not enough studying game theory.