{"id":5355,"date":"2013-08-25T16:49:27","date_gmt":"2013-08-25T22:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5355"},"modified":"2013-08-25T16:49:27","modified_gmt":"2013-08-25T22:49:27","slug":"there-are-five-simple-situations-that-can-be-the-difference-between-being-a-great-head-coach-and-an-ex%e2%80%93head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5355","title":{"rendered":"There are five simple situations that can be the difference between being a great head coach and an ex\u2013head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A href=\"http:\/\/www.grantland.com\/story\/_\/id\/9593699\/bill-barnwell-scenarios-coaches-fail-most\">Bill Barnwell<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s pretty clear that being an NFL head coach isn&#8217;t a very easy job. A light day at the office during the season runs about 16 hours. You have to manage and assuage the egos of 53 players, a fair number of whom make more money than you and have way better job security than you. For all the effort you might put into your process, you&#8217;re judged entirely by outcomes, some of which might very well be chalked up to players you didn&#8217;t want to draft in the first place. And then, when you make a decision in the heat of the moment on Sunday while surrounded by 70,000 fans and weighing hundreds of variables at once, some smart-ass who&#8217;s never coached a day in his life picks apart your decisions on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Doesn&#8217;t sound like fun. But Thank You for Not Coaching, the section of our Monday NFL wrapup column1 that breaks down the previous weekend&#8217;s coaching decisions, is not meant to be a harsh dismissal of coaching! It&#8217;s supposed to be educational, to provide some insight into what the different possibilities are in a given situation and how teams might be able to maximize their opportunities to win football games. I won&#8217;t pretend that it can&#8217;t get catty at times \u2014 sorry, Pat Shurmur \u2014 but I think about all the hours that coaches put in and all the collected knowledge they&#8217;ve gathered during their years on the job and hate to see them throw all that away by being ultra-conservative at the wrong time. Why make a suboptimal decision because it&#8217;s what has always been done?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Barnwell: It&#8217;s pretty clear that being an NFL head coach isn&#8217;t a very easy job. A light day at the office during the season runs about 16 hours. You have to manage and assuage the egos of 53 players, a fair number of whom make more money than you and have way better job [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5355"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}