The NFL’s schedule-makers did Oakland no favors with a difficult stretch to end the season, but Jack Del Rio is embracing the challenge. Plus mail on Kaepernick, Kubiak and a new idea on how to make overtime better
Being an NFL coach these days often has three or four other elements to it. Psychologist is one. Strategist another. But a lot of the job is logistics and planning around the vagaries of a team’s schedule, particularly when that team gets good … and when a coach has to plan for things like altitude and 1,500-mile flights after physical games on short weeks.