The way Herm Edwards was explaining it the other day, coaching football sounded like playing whack-a-mole. As soon as you take a mallet to one problem, another one pops up in a different location.
“In football, you’re always struggling somewhere,” said Edwards. “Every week, there is a different group where you go, ‘Oh, boy.’ That’s ball, man. You’re always, ‘Man, we’ve got to fix this.’ And then this one breaks.”
But that is in a perfect world. Sometimes, the season isn’t long enough for coaches to fix a problem.